The Opportunity

At APA, our purpose is simple: to strengthen communities through responsible energy.

We now have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Manager Project Finance to join Electricity Transmission team in Sydney or Melbourne on a permanent full-time basis.

Reporting directly to the General Manager Commercial, you will be responsible to deliver investment and funding strategies for large scale infrastructure bid development and associated projects including coordinating and supporting investment approvals for Electricity Transmission projects. This would include Identifying project structures, bid strategies and associated funding strategies to deliver large scale projects with values over $1bn dollars

Key Responsibilities

• Investor Approvals - Manage the preparation and support presentation of investor approval documentation for large scale infrastructure bids, ensuring compliance with regulatory, APA standards and risk tolerances

• Funding Sourcing - Provide guidance and direction to finance to support sourcing both debt and equity funding opportunities for projects valued above $1bn

• Modelling Guidance - Provide input into the ET model (Corporate Finance) to ensure alignment with the decision-making processes and due diligence requirements

• Bid Financing Strategy - Review and assess CAPEX, OPEX and funding trade-offs to optimise bid strategies for bid success and cost efficiency

• Contract Negotiation & Closure - Support negotiations to secure favourable debt contract terms and oversee the closure process. Oversight and review concession and government contracts to support close and equity risk processes

• Government customer contracts – Engagement with government on funding models and approaches to deliver large scale infrastructure contracts that align with customer requirements and debt and equity agreements

• Market insights and competitor analysis – Provide insights to alternate funding and bid strategies under different government contract models and identify potential alternate structure approaches competitors may consider.

Your background

• 10-15 years of experience in investment strategy, funding coordination, or financial management within the infrastructure sector

• Proven track record in managing complex funding and investment processes in a dynamic team environment

• Experience in commercial and financial governance

• Experience in government contracts and associated funding structures

Working at APA

At APA we’re committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best. We’ll provide you with access to targeted career development programs, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing programs. We also have an inclusive parental leave policy providing 18 weeks leave including superannuation to support parents at work and in life.

We employee more than 2900 people across Australia and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture, where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to do their best every day.

We are APA

APA Group is a leading Australian energy infrastructure business.

We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $27 billion portfolio of gas, electricity, solar and wind assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia.
And we own over 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to families and industry across every corner of Australia.

As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we’re focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

Our customer centric approach means we understand our customers and their businesses offering reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

We are committed to delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia’s energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers.

We prioritise sustainable outcomes so that APA, our people, customers, and communities can thrive – now and in the future.

Join our team and be part of Australia’s energy transition!

We’d love to hear from you.

APA is an equal opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priorty. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in.

Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.

Role closes Monday, 30 September 2024. Role Reference Number JR1050

PD is available on request by emailing recruitment@apa.com.au quoting reference number above.

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.