Senior Portfolio Controlling Associate

RWE Americas, LLC
To start as soon as possible, full time, permanent

Functional area: Finance / Controlling
Remuneration: Exempt

At RWE Americas, the Portfolio Controlling team oversees RWE’s obligations and relationships with third-party investors across a large and complex renewable energy financing portfolio. The team currently manages 28 tax equity financings across 44 operating projects, working closely with more than 15 tax equity investors and 3 joint venture partnerships, with an additional 22 operating projects expected to commence operations by year-end. 

In this role, the Senior Associate, Portfolio Controlling serves as a key liaison between external investors and internal stakeholders, ensuring compliance with financing agreements, facilitating effective communication, and supporting the successful long-term management of RWE’s renewable energy assets. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a strong customer service orientation, a collaborative approach, meticulous attention to detail, and knowledgeable in partnership and tax equity financing structures within the renewable energy industry. 

Role Responsibilities: 

• Independently manage reporting deliverables to external financing partners, ensuring accuracy and adherence to tax equity and joint-venture partnership agreements
• Prepare annual tax equity flip models and support valuation analyses for restructuring and buyout opportunities
• Lead the development of tax equity and joint-venture partner materials for regularly scheduled meetings, including performance summaries, budget variance explanations, and operating metrics
• Serve as a main point of contact for assigned tax equity and joint-venture partners, managing responses to detailed inquiries regarding financial and operational performance, compliance, and commercial issues
• Collaborate on drafting and coordinating amendments to agreements and obtain required consents from tax equity and joint-venture partners
• Identify and recommend improvements to reporting processes and models that enhance efficiency, reduce risk, and enable scale
• Collaborate across business functions to ensure project budgets, financial forecasts, and contractual obligations are aligned and communicated to tax equity and joint-venture partners

Job Requirements and Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 4 years relevant experience 
• Proficient understanding of tax equity concepts, operating reports, cash distribution calculations and systems/tools
• Identifies issues and modifies processes and methods as needed
• Applies strong conceptual and analytical thinking; able to solve moderately complex problems with limited guidance; interprets and translates legal language in financing agreements to resolve conflicts; visualizes data/key information effectively for various audiences; interprets financial data in light of business dynamics
• Actively drives collaboration across functions; explains findings clearly to stakeholders
• Focuses on building relationships to standardize processes and solve problems
• Leads assigned tasks with management direction/guidance.
• Manages investors/partners and other stakeholders for specific areas
• Guides interns/new joiners
• Strong interpersonal skills, with ability to manage customer relationships
• Demonstrated desire to learn about the Company and the renewables space
• Excellent proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook) and Teams
• Strong leadership and communication, and ability to meet deadlines
• Strong organization skills and ability to coordinate multiple tasks and deliverables
• Ability to multi-task, while working independently and as part of a team
• Motivated self-starter, goal-oriented, and strong problem-solving abilities
• Proven ability to empathize, build relationships, and effectively communicate with people from a diverse set of backgrounds
• Responds well to direction, is easy to challenge and develop, and is coachable
• Is detail-oriented, has strong business acumen, and a sound understanding of business concepts
• This position is an office-based role with some travel and visits to other RWE office and field lo