Investment Partner

Location:
Victoria, Australia

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time

Description:

• Impactful Projects contributing to energy transition– Supporting strategic infrastructure initiatives such as renewable energy connections, battery development, and large-scale transmission projects.
• Variety & Challenge – Tackle diverse capital investment opportunities in a dynamic environment.
• High-Performing Team – Join a team with a strong culture of collaboration and support.

At AusNet, we're the link between renewable energy sources and local communities, playing a key role in the clean energy transition and providing essential energy to every Victorian family.

Help us lead the way, while enriching your career with real people who encourage you to bring your best and make real impact – for your career, our communities and Australia's cleaner energy future.

Purposeful work with genuinely good people. That's refreshing.

About the role

The Investment Partner role sits in Commercial Finance team as part of the Finance, Strategy and Legal team. This is a full-time permanent opportunity based in Southbank.

As an Investment Partner, you'll play a key role in supporting infrastructure deal teams and reviewing capital investment opportunities across our Development Future Networks (DF&N) portfolio. This business portfolio includes large-scale batteries, major transmission network augmentations, and connections with renewable generators and hyperscale data centres.

You'll support the Capital Investment Manager and Senior Investment Partners by:

• Reviewing financial models and approval papers prior to executive and board review;
• Running scenario analyses to test pricing robustness;
• Coordinating inputs into the 5-year Capex plan and investment pipeline forecasts;
• Providing accounting, tax and general finance advice on projects. Where required, facilitate discussions between the Project deal teams and various Finance SME, including Treasury, Tax and Corporate Accounting;
• Supporting bid submissions; and
• Undertaking process improvement.

What You'll Bring

We value curiosity, critical thinking, and collaboration. You'll thrive here if you are analytically minded, commercially aware and eager to learn.

Preferred skills and experience:

• Advanced financial modelling and scenario analysis skills;
• A solid understanding of key Corporate Finance/Project Finance principles, including an understanding of investment evaluation metrics;
• Experience in capital investment evaluation preferred. Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement abilities;
• Background in utilities, infrastructure, or banking preferred;
• CA/CPA/CFA or equivalent professional membership preferred.

If you believe you have the skills, aptitude and enthusiasm to learn but do not necessarily check every single box above, please still get in touch.

Please note, we will not be engaging in Recruitment agencies for this role, please apply directly

A real place to belong.

We celebrate unique voices, refreshing perspectives and diversity in our team. Engage and connect through our social club, wide range of events or by joining one of our Employee Network Groups.

We believe in more than just competitive pay. Here's what sets us apart:

• Flexibility: whether this is hybrid work, flexible hours, or part time arrangements, we'll work with you to help balance work and life.
• Leave: more than typical personal leave and a generous 14 weeks of paid parental leave, with no minimum service.
• Community giving: a paid day to volunteer with our social impact partner, Foodbank, or for a cause that matters to you.
• Perks: we offer all the other perks you've come to expect like purchased leave, income protection insurance, novated leasing, corporate discounts, private health cover discounts and more.

As an industry in transformation, we're excited by the possibilities ahead.

So, if you're passionate about our purpose and committed to making real progress, bring your energy and join AusNet. Together, we can shape a new way forward.