Project Finance Manager

Project Finance Manager

This is an exceptional opportunity to work with a Solar Services company 100% remotely

Job Description:
Pay Rate: Open depending on experience with full benefits

We are seeking a Project Finance Associate or Manager to join the team. This Manager-level team member will be responsible for supporting/managing debt and tax equity transactions for Company´s solar and battery storage projects as well as providing sophisticated and creative problem solving to meet profitability objectives.
This role is highly visible within the organization and requires collaboration with many different groups.
We are looking for someone with intellectual curiosity, high motivation, and excellent communication and process management skills that is interested in long-term career in project finance.



Responsibilities

Provide leadership of financial modeling and profitability analysis:
Oversee analyst modeling activities and take responsibility over content and output of the model. Provide guidance and quality control to analysts regarding inputs, structure, etc. and confirm that the model adequately and accurately reflects the underlying transaction, current market conditions, optimized commercial results, and best practices.
Build bespoke structured financing models that accurately reflect terms of various financing vehicles and markets that are not otherwise captured in existing tools.
Demonstrate a strong understanding of the causal relationships between inputs and outputs of a model and identify multidimensional layers of improvement to overall profitability of projects.
Model profitability of projects under various financing structures and help make corresponding project capital structure recommendations.
Provide leadership and coaching to analysts.
Independently manage third party financial models and consultant reports, and assist in negotiating transaction documents in a manner that is consistent with the overall project objective and strategy of the financing.
Collaborate with Business Analytics team to ensure that development-stage project models adequately reflect debt and tax equity market terms and structures.
Support deal leads for project financing transactions:
Assist with marketing efforts by overseeing analyst preparation of marketing materials, ensuring the presentation materials are accurate, clean, and reflect the overall message and intention of the transaction.
Review and assist with negotiating term sheets and definitive documentation.
Coordinate with third party financing providers on due diligence and documentation
Maintain responsibility for financial deal models for debt and tax equity transactions while working closely with external counterparties and internal teams.
Create proposals, information memoranda, presentations, project schedules and internal presentations.
Assist with gathering and presenting information for financial partners performing due diligence on projects.
Review of key contracts, term sheets, or other documents for impact on profitability, financial modeling, and overall financeability
Facilitate flow of information between finance, development, power marketing, legal and engineering teams during transaction execution
Manage deadlines and maintain accountability from cross-functional deal teams; lead peers across the organization with confidence and dedication.


Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Must demonstrate strong financial modeling and analytical skills.
Strong verbal and written communication skills including comfort with interacting with internal management and transaction counterparties.
Expertise in modeling tax equity including capital accounts, depreciation, buyouts, etc. (preferred)
Solid understanding of corporate finance and economic concepts
Working understanding of power and project finance markets (preferred)
Highly proficient in MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint
Resourceful and comfortable working in an unstructured, entrepreneurial environment; this is a transaction-based environment where requirements and deadlines are dictated by deal flow.
Strong quantitative aptitude with an extremely high level of attention to detail
Interested in working in a fast-growing industry that is making a tangible impact on climate.
change
Ability to translate complex quantitative analysis into written, deliverable insights.
Highly driven, proactive, and hardworking
Self-starter that takes pride in optimizing financial models and overall work products


Requirements

5-8 years of relevant experience required.
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.
CFA or other quantitative certifications are a plus.
A financial model test will be required during the interview process.
Travel required 0 - 25%

Note that if you get hired you must undergo a background and a driving records checks