Vice President, Portfolio Finance - GIP

About the role

Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a standalone division of BlackRock, is a leading global infrastructure investor focused on acquiring, owning, and operating large-scale assets across the energy, transport, digital infrastructure, and water and waste management sectors. GIP combines deep sector expertise, rigorous financial analysis, and operational capabilities to support the performance of its portfolio companies.

GIP is seeking a Vice President to join the Portfolio Finance team. This is a senior, highly analytical role focused on financial and operational performance across GIP's portfolio, with significant interaction with Portfolio Company management, GIP Investment Teams, Business Improvement professionals, and senior leadership. The Vice President will be expected to synthesize complex financial and operating information, challenge assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and communicate clear conclusions and recommendations to senior stakeholders. The role will also have meaningful responsibility for debt and capital markets analysis, including detailed debt modeling, liquidity, covenant monitoring, and working capital. The position is centered on portfolio finance, performance analytics, financial modeling, and business optimization.

Responsibilities

• Lead monthly and quarterly reviews of portfolio company financial and operating performance, including actual results, budgets, forecasts, liquidity positions, and key business metrics
• Analyze and explain the underlying drivers of EBITDA, cash flow, working capital, liquidity, leverage, and other critical performance indicators
• Evaluate business performance through both financial and operational lenses, linking results directly to underlying operational KPI drivers
• Identify emerging risks, opportunities, and trends across the portfolio and develop actionable recommendations for management and investment teams
• Build, review, and enhance complex financial models, including three-statement models, operating forecasts, cash flow analyses, scenario assessments, and sensitivity analyses
• Lead analysis of capital structures, debt facilities, covenant compliance, refinancing opportunities, interest-rate exposure, liquidity planning, and other treasury-related matters
• Monitor portfolio company leverage, debt service capacity, and financing requirements, providing recommendations to investment and management teams
• Drive the continued enhancement of portfolio reporting processes, analytics, systems, and data infrastructure
• Partner with portfolio companies, internal stakeholders, and technology teams to improve reporting consistency, scalability, data quality, and decision-support capabilities
• Develop dashboards, reporting frameworks, and performance monitoring tools that enable more timely and actionable insights
• Serve as a trusted finance partner to Portfolio Company CFOs and finance teams, GIP Investment Teams, and Business Improvement professionals
• Challenge assumptions, assess business plans, and provide objective analysis to support strategic and operational decision-making
• Support value creation initiatives by quantifying opportunities and monitoring execution against financial objectives
• Prepare concise, executive-level analyses and presentations for senior management, Investment Committees, Portfolio Committees, investors, and other stakeholders
• Distill complex financial and operational information into clear narratives that