Graduate: Asset Management

About the Company

Since its establishment in 2008, Mulilo has grown into one of South Africa’s leading Independent Power Producers (IPP). Mulilo is majority owned by Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), with Norfund holding an additional investment through the Norwegian Climate Investment Fund.

Mulilo develops, constructs and operates utility scale wind, solar PV and battery energy storage projects across South Africa. The company currently operates 450 MW of wind and solar capacity, with a further 765 MW under construction. A portfolio exceeding 2 GW is advancing toward financial close, while the long-term development pipeline exceeds 30 GW.

Mulilo has concluded power purchase agreements under the South African government’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme (REIPPPP), as well as private offtake agreements with several large corporate energy users.

Mulilo places significant emphasis on its people and recognises that successful infrastructure delivery depends on capable and committed teams. The company prides itself on providing a world-class working environment, with a clear focus on career progression and personal growth. Grounded in its values, Mulilo fosters a culture of accountability, collaboration and purpose, while remaining committed to its environmental, social and governance responsibilities.

About this role

The Graduate in Asset Management will support the Asset Manager and Asset Management team. The graduate will support the Asset Manager in the daily management of all commercial, contractual, technical, regulatory, and reporting obligations across the operational projects within Mulilo’s portfolio, with a focus on financial analysis, financial model updates and performance forecasting.

Duties and responsibilities

- Financial model updating and analysis. Update financial models to assess trends, forecast performance and analyses project performance.

- Use tools like Excel and PowerBI to analyze to visualize data and provide management recommendations.

- Manage dashboards to track real-time financial, technical and operational performance.

- Make recommendations to the Asset Management Team using data analytics.

- Create presentations and perform ad-hoc analysis.

- Lenders Relationship Management - calculating and monitoring debt covenants and other key financial metrics per financial forecasts.

- Prepare and submit monthly, quarterly and annual reports using data analytics and dashboards.

- Day-to-day operations of the projects: Understand and ensure all project activities are aligned to all project financing, offtake, self-build and consultancy agreements including the monitoring, analysis and assessment of all payments of the plant against the financial model and approved budgets.

- Track and ensure the project is compliant with all its obligations under the various contracts, laws, regulations, authorisations and permits.

- Manage the delivery tracker for projects, board pack collation for board meetings.

- Assisting with coordinating board meetings and following up on action items.

- Assist in identifying, classifying, mitigating and monitoring project risks.

Required qualifications and experience.

- University Degree in Engineering or Finance.

- High proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (experience in Power BI is beneficial).

- Strong analytical skills, strategic and problem-solving ability.

- Good technical understanding of renewable energy principles.

- Ability to manage several projects with time-sensitive project deliverables simultaneously and deliver them on time.

- Excellent written and spoken communication skills and excellence in report writing.

- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work with contractors, advisors, consultants and staff in a team environment.

Desirable attributes

The ideal candidate has a genuine passion for building the systems and standards that make a growing business perform better and is energised by working across every part of the organisation rather than owning a single silo. They bring the quiet authority to hold departments accountable to a shared standard without becoming an auditor and see governance as a lever for enterprise performance rather than a compliance exercise.

Mulilo is an employer of choice and offers an extremely competitive total remuneration package for this position.

Additional information

The position is based at Mulilo's Cape Town offices. Occasional travel to project and construction sites may be required in line with business needs.