Interim Finance Investment Manager in Aberdeen

Join Great British Energy and be part of powering the UK's Clean Energy Future. At GBE, we're not just building an energy company - we're shaping the future of the UK's energy landscape. Drive clean energy deployment across the UK as a strategic developer, investor, and owner of renewable projects.

Deliver benefits for communities and taxpayers, ensuring the clean energy transition creates jobs, boosts local economies, and increases public ownership. We focus on innovation, sustainability, and impact, working on projects that matter - from large-scale national renewable investments to empowering local and community energy initiatives.

Great British Energy is looking for a Director of Investment and Finance to join our GBE Local Directorate Team. This role will play a key part in contributing to projects, objectives, and wider organisational goals.

• Develop and maintain the GBE Local finance and funding strategy, ensuring it is aligned to the GBE company strategy and Local Power Plan objectives and is deliverable within agreed constraints.
• Translate strategy into clear annual plans, spend profiles and performance metrics.
• Lead portfolio level financial planning, modelling and structuring for distributed/local energy portfolios, including approach to capital stacks, risk-sharing, revenue stabilisation and crowding-in private finance.
• Oversee project and portfolio underwriting to investment grade standards, ensuring robust governance, documentation and assurance for investment decisions, including stage gate submissions.
• Lead financial transaction design and delivery (including engagement with HM Treasury and other stakeholders) and ensure compliance with public finance requirements.
• Ensure the Local and Community Portfolio Model and associated tools are fit-for-purpose, quality assured, and maintain a clear golden thread from inputs to decision outputs.
• Commission and integrate market intelligence to ensure modelling assumptions remain market-reflective and risk analysis is robust.
• Provide leadership on value for money, financial controls and performance reporting for GBE Locals investment activity.
• Build and lead a high-performing team in line with the interim finance team structure.
• Act as a key senior stakeholder for finance and funding across the Local directorate, advising the Local MD and fellow Directors.

Experience in energy markets and low-carbon infrastructure investment, including revenue models and/or financing distributed energy portfolios.

Senior leadership experience in investment, corporate finance, project finance, treasury, structured finance and/or public finance, with accountability for strategy, budgets and delivery outcomes.

Demonstrable track record of developing and executing finance and funding strategies, including translating objectives into spend profiles, performance metrics and delivery plans.

Expertise in investment appraisal, financial modelling and assurance, including risk analysis, sensitivities/scenarios and producing investment papers for senior governance.

Strong understanding of public sector financial frameworks and governance, including working with HM Treasury and applying value-for-money, assurance and compliance requirements.

Strong analytical and performance management skills, able to define and monitor KPIs, manage budgets/forecasts, and drive delivery against time, cost and quality constraints.

Experience designing and operationalising blended finance or public-private funding mechanisms.

Relevant degree or equivalent experience in finance, economics, business, mathematics, engineering or a related field. Investment qualification is desirable.

Personal Qualities: Works collaboratively, valuing different perspectives and building inclusive relationships.

Competitive base salary, performance-related bonus scheme, excellent pension scheme, 4x salary life assurance, 38 days annual leave, flexible working arrangements, ongoing professional development and training.