Ore-energy·6 days ago
6 days ago
Head of Finance
Sign up free to see how well your resume matches this role.
What you'll do
- Develop and execute an integrated capital strategy across equity, debt, project finance, public funding, guarantees, and grants.
- Lead equity fundraising rounds from investor positioning and engagement through deal negotiation and closing.
- Structure and close corporate, gigafactory, and project-level financing.
- Build and maintain strategic relationships with institutional investors, commercial banks, export credit agencies (ECAs), development finance institutions (DFIs), and infrastructure capital providers.
- Own and defend the company’s corporate financial model and investment cases before the Board, shareholders, and external counterparties.
- Translate engineering, manufacturing, and deployment plans into scalable, bankable commercial and project financing structures.
- Select and manage external financial, legal, and tax advisors while retaining direct internal ownership of all deal processes.
- Provide high-level financial guidance to the CEO, leadership team, and Board to steer business strategy and growth.
- Build the core finance capabilities, internal controls, systems, and reporting structures required for a rapidly scaling industrial company.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years of strategic finance, corporate finance, or capital markets experience within energy, infrastructure, industrial manufacturing, climate technology, or another capital-intensive sector.
- Proven success raising equity and structuring/closing complex corporate debt, gigafactory, or project finance transactions.
- Advanced financial modeling skills with the ability to rigorously build, stress-test, and defend complex financial assumptions.
- Deep understanding of capital markets and institutional due diligence, with established experience engaging investors, banks, ECAs, DFIs, or infrastructure funds.
- Strong negotiation skills and hands-on transaction management capabilities.
- Ability to seamlessly connect engineering, operational, and commercial plans to financing requirements and financial outcomes.
- Entrepreneurial, commercially minded, and eager to operate hands-on in a fast-paced scale-up environment.
- Professional fluency in English is required; Dutch or other European languages are a strong advantage.
- Willingness to travel as needed for investor meetings, transaction negotiations, and project development activities.
Nice to have
- Dutch or other European languages are a strong advantage.
Summarised by NextRaise from the employer’s description, which follows in full below.
Full description from employer
The role
Key responsibilities
Your profile
Company
Ore-energy
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Company facts come from this company's own listings. We only show what the postings themselves carry.