What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Portfolio Controls & Risk position at Inventure?
Director, Portfolio Controls & Risk — Utility-Scale Renewable IPP
Houston | In-Office | Equity Participation
We’re running a confidential search for a fast-scaling renewable energy platform backed by long-term institutional capital.
The company is entering a critical stage of growth: multiple utility-scale storage projects moving through development, financing, construction, and operations in parallel. They now need a portfolio controls and risk leader who can sit above the projects and give leadership one clear view of schedule, cost, execution risk, and financial impact.
It is a build-the-function seat with ownership, direct senior exposure, and meaningful equity upside.
What You’ll Do
- Build and own the portfolio-level risk register across multiple large-scale storage projects
- Create one clear portfolio view across schedule, cost, execution risk, commercial risk, financing impact, and key decision points
- Design dashboards and reporting across cost, schedule, risk, project status, and portfolio priorities
- Translate project execution risk into financial consequences, including lender draws, insurance, tax credit monetization, investor reporting, and contractual obligations
- Establish the operating rhythm: governance, escalation paths, reporting cadence, templates, and decision forums
- Work directly with senior technical, operating, finance, and investment stakeholders
- Use modern tools, including Power BI, Tableau, automation, and AI, to reduce manual reporting and improve decision quality
Who We’re Looking For
- You’ve likely worked in capital program controls, project controls, portfolio governance, project risk, or infrastructure PMO at scale.
- You may come from oil and gas, chemicals, refining, midstream, power, renewables, data centers, or another capital-intensive environment. Battery storage experience is helpful, but not required. The priority is someone with strong capital project discipline who can apply it in a high-growth energy infrastructure setting.
- You understand how projects actually go wrong: schedule slippage, procurement delays, contractor performance, interconnection movement, financing milestones, reporting gaps, and leadership teams seeing issues too late.
- You should be financially literate, hands-on with dashboards and risk tools, and curious about how BI, automation, and AI can make project controls faster, sharper, and less manual.
Why This Seat
- Build the controls and risk function at a critical point in the platform’s growth
- Work directly with senior leadership on real project and portfolio decisions
- Join a lean, high-accountability platform rather than a corporate matrix
- Step into a high-growth infrastructure market with director-level base, bonus, and meaningful equity upside
This search is being run confidentially through Inventure Recruitment. If this sounds like you or someone in your network, reach out directly and we can share more.