Interim Head of Infrastructure Refinancing Execution

An execution leader with transaction experience

Applicants should have led financing or refinancing execution for infrastructure or other asset-intensive businesses, with direct responsibility for multidisciplinary coordination. Experience should include managing difficult conditions, competing stakeholder demands and post-completion implementation. Strong model literacy and familiarity with loan documentation are required, together with precise written communication.

Candidates must be comfortable operating at detail level while keeping decision-makers focused on the few matters that alter the transaction's economics or risk.

Set the critical path

Establish the transaction plan, critical dependencies and decision timetable. Confirm the quality of financial information and due-diligence materials before circulation. Identify issues that can change pricing, available proceeds, conditions or timing, and make them visible to the accountable executive early enough for a decision.

Resolve conditions and protect completion

Manage the information flow and maintain a single controlled record of open points. Coordinate responses to lender questions, reconcile requested protections with operating constraints and assess the financial effects of proposed terms. Distinguish matters that can be resolved within delegation from those requiring renewed board approval.

Pay particular attention to the period around completion: repayment of existing facilities, release and creation of security, cash movements, reserve funding, reporting obligations and continuity of banking arrangements. A transaction is not finished when documents are signed if the finance team cannot operate the resulting requirements.

The interim leader will challenge optimistic assumptions about closing readiness. They must be willing to recommend a revised sequence or escalation when unresolved conditions could jeopardise liquidity or create an unauthorised commitment. External advisers support the process; they do not replace executive ownership of the transaction.

Operational ownership after signing

The handover will include final debt records, a covenant and reporting calendar, named control owners and a documented account of residual actions. Performance will be assessed on execution quality, transparency of escalations and readiness of the ongoing finance function. Authority to accept terms, sign documents or commit funds will remain subject to explicit delegation and approval.