Infrastructure debt investment professional (madrid)

Infrastructure Debt Investment Professional

Country: Spain – Based in Madrid (MADRID)

Santander Alternative Investments (SAI) is looking for an Infrastructure Debt Investment Professional for its Targeted Enhanced-Yield Infra Debt - TEIDE fund. SAI is a growing business focused on infrastructure, private credit and real estate, with a goal of developing funds where we have a clear competitive advantage to generate alpha for our institutional and UHNWI clients.

Responsibilities

• Manage investee assets, coordinating performance monitoring and providing reporting to investment and valuation committees.
• Oversee post‑investment transactional issues such as waivers, restructuring, negotiations, extensions and ensure ongoing monitoring of portfolio assets, including performance analysis, covenant compliance, ESG reporting and financial performance tracking.
• Originate, execute and manage general infrastructure and energy private credit high‑yield investments.
• Independently source and analyse investment opportunities, structure and negotiate transactions, conduct comprehensive financial, ESG and legal reviews, and manage investments including presenting proposals to the investment committee.
• Collaborate with senior management to implement the fund’s strategy, ensuring disciplined risk management and sustainable value creation.
• Maintain strong relationships with sponsors, advisors, counterparties and institutional clients.
• Coordinate and assess existing investment performance, maintaining active dialogue on performance measurement and ESG with investee businesses.
• Coordinate transactional post‑entry issues such as waivers, extensions, restructuring.
• Originate and preliminarily evaluate investment opportunities in the infrastructure and energy high‑yield private credit markets, leveraging relationships with companies, advisors, banks and asset managers across geographies.
• Prepare structuring and conduct detailed credit, business model and risk analyses of transactions, and draft screening materials, investment committee memoranda and related documentation.
• Conduct comprehensive due diligence, including financial modelling, legal review, ESG assessments, and analysis of technical, regulatory and market risks, ensuring robust investment recommendations.
• Perform detailed cash flow modelling and cash extraction analysis to evaluate debt service capacity, downside scenarios and overall investment resilience.
• Prepare materials for the investment committee and drive execution of approved transactions, leading negotiations of term sheets, financing agreements and ancillary legal documentation.
• Implement and monitor investment committee decisions across daily fund activities, ensuring timely and accurate execution.
• Involve in fund and asset performance reporting to investors, prepare regular updates, participate in investor communications and contribute to NAV calculation and review processes.
• Support fundraising activity for the fund and collaborate with senior management in development.

Languages

• Spanish (required)

EEO Statement

We are proud of being an organisation where there are equal opportunities regardless of gender identity, culture or disability. Our mission is to help more people and businesses prosper. We embrace a strong risk culture and expect all professionals at all levels to take a proactive and responsible approach toward risk management.