Asset Management Associate

Country/Region: ES- City: Santiago de Chile- Business Unit: EDP RENEWABLES CHILE SPA.EDP Renewables is a global leader in the renewable energy sector and the world's third-largest wind energy producer. With a sound development pipeline, first class assets, and market-leading operating capacity, EDPR has undergone exceptional development in recent years and is currently present in 17 markets (Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Chile, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, the UK, US and Vietnam).

EDPR is committed to furthering social advances in terms of sustainability and integration. This is reflected by the inclusion of the company in the Bloomberg Gender Equality index and the fact that it has been certified as a Top Employer 2021 in Europe (Spain, Italy, France, Poland, Portugal and Romania), both of which recognise its employee-driven policies.

**MISSION**

**MISSIO**

Be the Ultimate Responsible of the asset in order to Maximize the profitability of the assets assigned; managing: 1.P&L and key drivers that are linked with Asset Value creation, 2.project SPVs, 3.key contracts and obligations, 4.shareholders and stakeholders’ relationships. Be the focal point to all matters related to the asset, coordinating and assessing the support from other departments to guarantee they can efficiently provide their services for the project, and lead internal initiatives to drive long-term asset returns.

**MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIES**

**MAIN ACCOUNTABILITIE**

**1. P&L and Financial Management**:

- Coordinate the yearly Budget preparation process by collecting, analyzing, and agreeing on the inputs from the different departments and areas (Opex and Capex), presenting the results and explanations to the other levels of the organization.
- Support on elaboration of management reports to follow-up on companies’ performance, from different perspectives: financial, technical, energy market, etc.
- Ensure periodic follow-up of P&L, production & expenses with regards to the approved budget, challenging the variations and obtain forecasts and recovery plans with the respective functional departments.
- Track progress of main cash and debt performance drivers with Finance department, ensuring that these are kept under control. Coordinate proper action plans are set with the remaining areas in case of deterioration of Project Finance covenants, including upfront communication with shareholders.

**2. Environmental, Health & Safety**:

- Ensure compliance with health & safety labor and environmental laws, legal and internal requirements, supported by the respective departments.
- Lead contracting process and follow-up the necessary periodic and extraordinary demands as a result of the general compliance above mentioned, such as safety audits, noise studies, bats and birds and any other environmental restrictions to its respective producibility.

**3. Operation & Maintenance**:

- Periodically review asset technical performance with responsible wind/solar O&M team, such as availability, external losses, issues from subcontractors, major corrective interventions, inspections, HSE incidents.

**4. Contract Management**:

- Manage key commercial terms of all contracts in force with the respective technical areas that deal directly daily obligations from subcontractors, ensuring proper fulfillment of subcontractor obligations, and deciding in due time for extension or new request for proposals before expiration of original contracts.
- Review and approve invoices from transmission companies regarding grid connection agreements where applicable.

**5. Stakeholder Management**:

- Lead the relationship with any public or private stakeholder, taking take care of the interests of the asset.
- Coordinate or manage communication & sponsoring initiatives at local level.
- Manage and drive resolution of claims arising from local stakeholders, involving Legal dept and other areas as required (TV, noise, local taxes, etc.).
- Provide support on institutional affairs and communication departments to all demands that could affect the asset, such as authority inspections, mandatory public hearings, public awards, etc.

**6. Land Lease Management**:

- Manage and ensure best relationships with landowners and ease the resolution of disputes.
- Manage land rights and negotiate any required addendum to the existing agreements.
- Manage payment of land rights, maintaining its respective tools and database.

**7. Energy Management**:

- Monitor PPA fulfilment in medium and long term, cooperating with Energy Management dept to adopt the best strategy to avoid penalties.
- Close approach to Energy Management dept to ensure that short-term exposure from production variations is monitored and minimized whenever possible.
- Manage and report about the proper functioning of the energy measuring equipment to grant a reliable source of data and follow the sale of Energy obligations.
- Challenge differences between ener