Finance Director at Peak Energy Development – PHMAN

Job Title: Finance Director - Renewable Energy, Philippines

Location: Manila, Philippines

Position Type: Full-time

About Peak Energy: About Peak Energy

Peak Energy is a leading clean energy platform dedicated to developing, financing, building, and operating utility-scale solar, rooftop generation, onshore wind, and battery storage solutions across the Asia-Pacific region. As a fast-growing scale-up, we combine world-class technical expertise with entrepreneurial agility, drawing on the experience of industry leaders from TotalEnergies, Vestas, Cleantech Energy, and other top players.

With over 300 MW of operating assets and 1.5 GW of projects in development across Japan, Korea, Australia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Indonesia, we are greenfield developers at heart. At the same time, we partner flexibly with industrials, developers, and investors to accelerate delivery and scale impact.

Our approach blends the customer focus of a developer, the technical expertise of an EPC, and the financial strength of a global institution—enabling clients to meet decarbonization targets on time, on budget, and without risk of delivery failure.

Peak Energy is wholly owned by Stonepeak, one of the world’s largest alternative investment firms specializing in infrastructure and real assets, with over USD 76 billion in assets under management. This financial strength, combined with our deep local market relationships, allows us to optimize capital deployment into high-quality assets.

Our clients can expect clean energy solutions delivered on time, on budget, and at scale—with no surprises. Let’s partner together to accelerate your sustainability journey

es, Vestas, Cleantech Energy, and other leading players — combining world-class technical expertise with entrepreneurial agility.

With over 300 MW of operating assets and 1 GW of projects in development across Japan, Korea, Australia, Taiwan, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore and Indonesia. We are greenfield developers at heart, but we also partner flexibly with industrials, developers, and investors to accelerate delivery and scale impact.

Backed by Stonepeak, we combine the customer focus of a developer, the technical expertise of an EPC and the financial strength of a heavyweight institution — enabling clients to meet decarbonisation targets on time, on budget, and without risk of delivery failure.

Our clients can expect clean energy solutions delivered on time, on budget, and at scale — with no surprises. Let's partner together to support your sustainability journey.

Finance Director Role Overview:

We are currently seeking a talented Finance Director to lead our finance team in Philippines. Reporting directly to VP of Finance.

The Finance Director will lead the full spectrum of finance operations for Peak Energy entities in Philippines including accounting, tax, treasury, FP&A, budgeting and forecast investment and transactions, internal control, reporting and compliance. Partnering with business leaders in country, this role will be the finance go to person supporting the business development and growth objectives in Philippines Market. Establish the local finance team through insourcing and outsourcing solutions. Working closely with the regional finance management team in Singapore and the Finance Shared Services Team in Manila, this role is also responsible for implementing the finance reporting process and system in country as an integral part of the Peak Energy Group. Monitoring the financial resources and budget of project development and execution in country, this role will monitor the project through entire lifecycle from development to operational delivery. As a seasonal functional leader, you will build up the finance team and drive collaboration across the local organization.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the business development, sales, technical and supporting functions to deliver a portfolio of Distribution Generation and Utility Scale Renewable projects.
• Maintain senior oversight on development and maintenance of financial models and provide guidance to team on required model adjustments and refinements as transaction progresses.
• Work with the relevant functions in deal structuring and due diligence process; prepare internal and investor presentation materials.
• Work on project bankability aspects across various functions including PPA, EPC, O&M, interconnection, land lease, permitting, environmental and insurance.
• Lead the financial planning, structuring, negotiating, and closing of non-recourse project finance; develop relationships with banks, financial institutions and external advisors throughout the financing process.
• Comply with statutory reporting requirements in all local entities in accounting, tax, treasury and group reporting and tax compliance requirements
• Monitor the performance of all projects in development, construction and operation according to budget.
• Monitor the annual operating budget for development companies based on approved headcounts and SG&A activities
• Timely and accurate reporting for month/ quarter/ year end to the group finance team
• Assist in setup local operations, including credit matrix and establishment of new legal entities.
• Manage third party finance service providers for accounting and tax
• Ad hoc group reporting requirement from Peak Energy and investors

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field; advanced degree and /or CPA highly desirable.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in senior finance leadership role with multi-layer finance organization, preferably with substantial experience in renewable energy.
• Strong background in financing, tax, accounting, financial modelling, and contract analysis with ability to contribute to or guide investment structuring and project due diligence.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Proven track record of successful project finance and M&A closings. Established network of industry contacts is a strong advantage.