Senior Investment Analyst

Our Opportunity

Work Location: Perth

Roster: Monday to Friday

Fortescue is seeking an experienced Senior Investment Analyst to help shape and accelerate the development of industries critical to the global energy transition.

Joining the Investment Analysis team within Group Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), you will play a key role in assessing complex, large-scale investment opportunities. You will build sophisticated financial models and deliver financial, economic and commercial insights that provide trusted advice on some of Fortescue’s most important growth and decarbonisation initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

As Senior Investment Analyst, you will:

• Build and maintain sophisticated financial models including financing structures for large-scale energy, infrastructure and industrial projects.
• Evaluate a broad opportunity set spanning renewable energy, green iron, data centres and associated energy infrastructure, green grids, battery storage, transmission, green hydrogen and ammonia, and other emerging green industrial opportunities.
• Analyse investment opportunities across Australia and international jurisdictions, considering energy-sector dynamics, macroeconomic conditions, government policies and incentives, financing environments, tax systems and customer requirements.
• Undertake commercial and financial analysis across the project lifecycle, from early-stage development and feasibility through construction, operations and potential exit.
• Assess project economics, including IRR, NPV, cash flows, capital requirements, leverage, debt service, sensitivities, scenarios and key value drivers.
• Analyse commercial structures and market assumptions, including PPAs, energy supply agreements, offtake agreements, tolling arrangements, infrastructure access agreements, carbon pricing, data centre revenue models and green product premiums.
• Support project development, financing and transaction activities, including technology and configuration assessments, development pathways, market-entry strategies, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, acquisitions and divestments.
• Coordinate technical, commercial, legal, tax, finance and external adviser inputs, and engage with advisers, financiers, government agencies, offtake partners and other stakeholders on project economics, valuation and financial projections.
• Identify key investment risks and opportunities, translating complex analysis into clear, commercially grounded recommendations.
• Develop investment cases, business cases, recommendations, investment papers, presentations and executive-level materials for Fortescue’s senior management and investment decision-makers.

What Success Looks Like

• Delivering high-quality analysis that shape major investment decisions.
• Providing clear, data-driven insights that informs strategic growth and capital allocation decisions.
• Identifying value creation opportunities and commercial risks early.
• Building trusted relationships across senior stakeholders.

Qualifications and Experience

• Tertiary qualification in accounting, finance, mathematics, engineering or a related discipline, with professional qualifications such as CFA, CIMA or ACA (or equivalent) highly regarded.
• 7+ years’ relevant experience in financial modelling, investment analysis, corporate finance, project finance, commercial analysis or a related field, preferably within renewable energy, complex infrastructure, resources or other capital-intensive sectors.
• Demonstrated ability to build complex financial models from the ground up in accordance with best-practice modelling principles, with excellent attention to detail.
• Experience evaluating major capital projects through development and, ideally, Final Investment Decision (FID), including investment opportunities across developed and emerging international markets.
• Experience in project finance, financing or tax structures, M&A, due diligence, acquisitions, divestments or other commercial ventures will be highly regarded.

About Us

Be part of something big. Fortescue is leading the world with our plan to decarbonise our iron ore operations, projects that harness renewable energy and the development of technology that will change our planet forever.

Our Commitment

Fortescue celebrates individual strengths and team members are encouraged to bring their whole selves to work. Our global workforce drives and promotes an inclusive culture, both within our organisation and throughout the communities we interact with. Diverse backgrounds include First Nations Peoples, people with disabilities, LGBTQ+ community, gender, neurodiverse, cultural diversity, all age groups, and those with an intersectional or multiple diverse characteristics. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

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Internal Candidates / Current Contractors please apply via Success Factors Careers Portal. For further information on how to apply please visit the Fortescue Hub. 

Fortescue reserves the right to close applications early should a suitable pool of candidates be identified. Fortescue will never contact you to ask for payment of any kind, whether directly or through a third party.