Senior Financial Controller, CI Capital

Do you want to join a global leader in renewable energy infrastructure investment? Then Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) is the perfect place for you. We are currently looking for a Financial Controller to join our CI Capital team in Copenhagen.

Team

The CI Capital team’s key responsibility is management of CIP’s four Senior Partners’ ownership of CIP. Additionally, CI Capital is consolidating the increasing investments by the Senior Partners in funds managed by CIP and other investments, as well as driving continuous professionalization of other family office activities. The team currently consists of around 12 people.

The finance team plays a vital role in supporting the administration of the Senior Partners’ entities. The team is responsible for providing accounting and insight into financial performance for ~65 entities.

Role

As the Financial Controller, you will become part of a dynamic team and participate in developing and professionalizing our setup in finance. The CI Capital team consists of 9 full-time employees plus 3 Analysts (Student Assistants).

In the daily business you will report to the Senior Finance Manager in CI Capital.

Your primary responsibility is to support the finance function of the CI Capital team in the below-mentioned responsibilities and areas.

Responsibilities will consist of but are not limited to:

• Quarterly and yearly control of entities.
• Reviewing audit material (annual reports, tax returns, taxable income statements, etc.) and assisting with the collection and preparation of audit material (PBC) for external auditors
• Preparing consolidated financial statements and reports
• Controlling and supporting intercompany transactions
• Reviewing bookkeeping and approving payments
• Preparing balance reconciliations, cost specifications, ad hoc analyses, etc.
• Preparing accruals and provisions
• Liaising with internal and external stakeholders, such as banks, auditors, and advisors
• Assisting with other tasks, including compliance with external stakeholders, capital increases, group contributions, and capital calls, to name a few
• Assisting with corporate and private tax matters, ensuring compliance with tax regulations

You

We are looking for a motivated individual holding a master’s degree (or similar) in accounting, finance, for instance a cand.merc.aud or other relevant education combined with 5+ years of relevant full-time experience from a role in auditing, as Controller or similar. Good accounting knowledge is essential. Experience or familiarity from a family office or with portfolio administration is beneficial. You might come with solid experience with Navision/Business Central. You will contribute with your experience, highly structured work ability, and efficiency to ensure that you and the finance team continue to deliver high-quality accounting and reporting within given deadlines.

Given the structure of ownership across the Senior Partners and their companies, your role will include complex issues that will challenge your skills and the need for you to acquire new knowledge on an ongoing basis especially within accounting.

As a person, we picture you as a positive, open-minded, reliable, accountable, and a good communicator. You have a curious mindset and always seek to understand and get the 'full picture'.

We look for the following in a candidate:

• Solid analytical, problem-solving skills, and an improvement mindset
• Ability to work independently, deliver tasks and be open to new approaches
• Skilled collaborator with the ability to develop and maintain relationships within and across teams
• Determination and structure
• Excellent user of both Excel and PowerPoint
• Proficient in English and Danish.

The process
Please apply online as soon as possible as applications will be processed on an ongoing basis. For questions related to the role, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected]. We do not include CV's and Cover Letters sent by email.

As we continue to improve our candidate experience, diversity and avoid unconscious bias, please avoid having a photo in your CV. We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality for all applicants.

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations and ownership.

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Building value that matters
Founded in 2012, Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners P/S (CIP) today is the world’s largest dedicated fund manager within greenfield renewable energy investments and a global leader in offshore wind. To date, CIP has developed and constructed more than +50 greenfield renewable projects around the world. CIP is developing a greenfield project portfolio of ~160GW totally, and ~16 GW is in operation or under construction. CIP manages 12 funds and has to date raised approximately EUR ~32 billion for investments in energy and associated infrastructure from more than 180 international institutional investors.

CIP has a multinational team of ~500 full time employees with extensive experience and knowledge within the fields of renewable energy project development and regulated infrastructure. In addition, CIP has a broad range of competencies within corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, engineering, construction, project development, and project management.

CIP has built a prominent investment team capable of originating proprietary investment opportunities and executing projects and investments based on the team’s industrial background, large industrial network, and extensive experience in structuring, executing, and managing investments within energy infrastructure. Headquartered in Copenhagen, CIP also operates from key locations across the globe, including offices in Hamburg, Munich, London, Utrecht, New York, Tokyo, Melbourne, Luxembourg, Kuala Lumpur, Seoul and Singapore. In addition, CIP has 17 local project offices globally.

For more information, visit www.cip.com.

Location: Copenhagen