Senior Director, Infrastructure Valuations

Position Summary

General Atlantic is seeking a Senior Director of Infrastructure Valuations to help lead the valuation of the global infrastructure portfolio. Based in New York and reporting to the Managing Director, Global Head of Valuations, this individual will lead key elements of the quarterly valuation process, independently challenge investment-team assumptions and third-party valuation analyses, and present well-supported fair-value conclusions to senior stakeholders. The role requires deep infrastructure knowledge, strong technical judgment, and the ability to work credibly with investment professionals, finance teams, auditors, and valuation advisers. The successful candidate will combine hands-on analytical depth with executive presence and will develop members of the valuation team.

Responsibilities 

Valuation Leadership and Execution:

• Lead quarterly valuations for global portfolio of infrastructure investments across the Energy, Digital Infrastructure, and Long-Life Infrastructure strategies, including operating assets, development-stage projects, and platform structures.
• Review and independently challenge valuation models, forecasts, discount rates (including country, currency, and company-specific risk premia), terminal-value assumptions, capital structures, and other key inputs, focusing on the principal drivers of value and risk.
• Evaluate valuation approaches across sectors and instruments, including discounted cash flow, market and transaction multiples, yield-based methods, scenario analysis, and other techniques appropriate to the facts and circumstances.
• Assess the valuation implications of transactions and material portfolio developments and advise on complex or judgmental matters.
• Ensure that valuation conclusions are supported by high-quality documentation and are applied consistently across assets, funds, and reporting periods.

Governance and Control:

• Maintain a valuation governance framework aligned with ASC 820, the IPEV Valuation Guidelines, and the firm's valuation policies.
• Prepare and present valuation recommendations, sensitivities, and key judgments to valuation committees and other senior governance forums, and support the committee process, including approvals and minutes.
• Serve as a senior point of contact for internal and external auditors and coordinate the resolution of valuation questions.
• Oversee third-party valuation advisers, including scope, methodology, quality, timelines, and issue resolution.
• Support the design and operation of valuation controls, management sign-offs, exception reporting, and documentation standards.

Stakeholder Partnership:

• Partner with infrastructure investment teams, portfolio finance, fund accounting, and other control functions to obtain relevant information and reach well-reasoned conclusions.
• Provide constructive challenge to deal teams and explain valuation requirements and conclusions clearly to senior stakeholders, committees, and auditors.
• Monitor market, macroeconomic, regulatory, country-risk, and sector developments that may affect portfolio valuations, and communicate emerging themes proactively.

Team Leadership and Operating Model:

• Lead, coach, and develop valuation professionals across locations, setting clear expectations for analytical rigor and execution.
• Improve valuation models, discount-rate framework templates, data flows, review protocols, and reporting, including through appropriate use of technology and automation.
• Flexibility to work across time zones with colleagues in other regions is expected, particularly around quarter-end.

Qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, engineering, or a related discipline; an MBA, CFA, CPA/ACA, ASA/ABV/CVA, or other relevant advanced credential is preferred.
• 10+ or more years of relevant experience in infrastructure valuation, private markets, transaction advisory, investment banking, audit, or a related field, with significant responsibility for complex valuations.
• Demonstrated experience valuing infrastructure assets, such as power and energy including solar and wind farms (contracted and merchant), transmission, digital infrastructure, toll roads and other concession-based transportation assets, logistics, utilities, or other contracted or regulated assets.
• Strong financial-modeling expertise, including discounted cash flow analysis, cost-of-capital build-ups, calibration to transaction prices, market and transaction benchmarking, scenario analysis, and complex capital structures.
• Strong knowledge of fair-value principles and valuation governance, including ASC 820 and the IPEV Valuation Guidelines.
• Experience working across multiple geographies, currencies, and regulatory regimes, with direct emerging-markets valuation experience strongly preferred.
• Ability to communicate valuation judgments effectively to investment professionals, senior management, valuation committees, auditors, and third-party advisers.
• Independent judgment and the confidence to challenge constructively while remaining collaborative.
• A high degree of integrity, ownership, discretion, and accountability.
• This role is based in General Atlantic's New York office and will require minimal travel.
• Highly analytical coupled with strong intuition; able to think and react quickly
• Strong project management skills – time management, pattern recognition, prioritization and strong judgement are critical; ability to work well under pressure without compromising quality
• Strong attention to detail, exceptional follow through and consistently delivers results
• Ability to work independently and proactively in a high performing global organization. Highly collaborative and capable of working effectively cross functionally
• Demonstrated maturity and professional presence; comfortable interacting with senior executives
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Highly motivated, inquisitive, and positive can-do attitude

GA Value

• Competitive compensation
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans
• Retirement savings plan with employer matching
• Professional development opportunities and ongoing training
• Collaborative and inclusive work culture with opportunities for advancement

General Atlantic offers a robust reward program to all employees that will support you and your family, maintaining fulfilling, secure and healthy lives now and into the future, which includes but is not limited to medical insurance, retirement savings contributions, mental and physical health resources and an equal pay program that allows you to earn a base salary of $180,000 – 235,000 of which the exact amount offered will be driven by the degree to which you meet role requirements, additional special skills and experience.  Additional reward programs, such as annual discretionary bonuses and long-term incentive programs, are available for eligible employees and are offered as recognition for performance and one’s contributions towards the organization’s success.