Finance Asset Management Director
Schroders
London
Full-time
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Finance Asset Management Director – Schroders Greencoat
Company Overview
Schroders Greencoat is the renewable infrastructure specialist for Schroders Plc, one of Europe’s leading independent asset management groups. Schroders Greencoat is a fund manager focused on clean energy infrastructure. The business manages large\-scale investments in renewable energy assets, such as wind farms, solar parks, and bioenergy facilities, primarily across the UK, Europe, Asia and the U.S.
Role Overview
A senior leadership role responsible for financial asset management across a large, complex portfolio of renewable SPVs.
- Oversight of hundreds of SPVs across multiple funds and jurisdictions, supported by outsourced administrators and asset managers
- Accountability for financial integrity, governance and reporting quality across the platform
- Leadership of a finance team and ownership of process standardisation, scalability and transformation
- Key finance partner to senior internal stakeholders, fund boards and external counterparties
Leadership \& Operating Model
- Lead and develop a team of Financial Managers, driving performance, accountability and consistency
- Define and implement a scalable finance operating model to support continued portfolio growth
- Embed best practice across the function, ensuring standardisation across assets and funds
- Own financial oversight of a large\-scale SPV portfolio, ensuring high\-quality, timely reporting across all entities
- Review and challenge outputs from outsourced service providers (administrators / asset managers)
- Oversee delivery of:
+ Statutory accounts and audits
+ Debt and lender reporting
Maintain strong financial control environment across cash, payments and governance processes
- Audit, Tax \& Compliance
- Lead audit processes across the portfolio, acting as senior contact with auditors
- Oversee VAT and corporate tax compliance in collaboration with external advisors
- Process Improvement \& Transformation
- Own and drive continuous improvement of finance processes across a high\-volume SPV environment
- Deliver:
+ Automation and use of digital tools
+ Improved data quality and accessibility
- Enhance scalability of finance processes to support increasing portfolio size and complexity
- Act as senior finance contact for:
+ Lenders, auditors, tax advisors and administrators
+ Internal investment, finance and technical teams
Build strong external relationships and drive accountability across service providers
- Commercial \& Strategic Contribution
- Provide financial insight to support:
+ Portfolio\-level decision\-making
Contribute to broader strategic initiatives across the platform
- Governance Oversight
- Oversee SPV governance frameworks, including:
+ Policies and procedures across the portfolio
- Ensure consistent, high\-quality board materials and compliance with governance standards
Essential
- Qualified Accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent)
- 10–15\+ years’ experience in infrastructure, asset management or similar environments
- Proven leadership of finance teams in complex, multi\-entity / SPV structures
- Strong experience working with outsourced service models
- Deep knowledge of financial reporting standards (FRS102 / IFRS)
- Demonstrated ability to drive process improvement, standardisation and scaling
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Experience in renewable energy / infrastructure investing
- Experience in finance transformation or operating model design
- Knowledge of financing structures and corporate tax
- Familiarity with data and reporting tools (e.g. Power BI, Python)
- Leadership role within a large\-scale, growing renewable infrastructure platform
- Opportunity to shape the finance operating model across a complex SPV portfolio
- Combination of technical oversight, team leadership and transformation mandate
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