Project Finance Manager (Renewables)

Project Finance Manager

MUST reside in Austin, TX or New York, NY

Pay Range: $130K-$160K depending on experience

(Full benefits, competitive bonus structure, full time position)

MUST HAVE'S TO APPLY:

• Renewable Project Finance Experience
• Tax Equity
• Debt Structure
• Raising Capital
• Creating Models From Scratch (Must know how to Model)

Position Summary

We are seeking a Manager to join the Project Finance team. This team member will be responsible for supporting/managing debt and tax equity capital raising for our solar and battery storage projects as well as providing sophisticated financial modeling to identify creative solutions to profitability objectives.

This role is highly visible within the organization and requires cross functional collaboration with many different internal and external groups. We are looking for someone with intellectual curiosity, high motivation, and excellent communication and process management skills that is pursuing a long-term career in project finance.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership of financial modeling and profitability analysis: Oversee analyst and associate 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 multi-dimensional layers of improvement to overall profitability of projects.
• Model profitability of projects under various financing structures (tax equity and debt) and help make corresponding project capital structure recommendations.
• Provide leadership and coaching to analysts and associates
• 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 finance ability.
• 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.
• Reporting relationships and interactions: Reports to Director of Project Finance and indirectly to Head of Project Finance;
• Interact and develop relationships with working teams of tax equity investors, lenders, and third party market consultants.
• Coordinate and collaborate with all internal stakeholders throughout the company that represent all stages of the projects’ lifecycle.

Requirements

_ 5-7 years of relevant experience required._

_ Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience._

• Long-term career interest in renewable project finance capital raising and investing.

Must have strong financial modeling and analytical skills.

• Strong verbal communication skills while prone to collaboration.

Expertise in modeling and structuring tax equity.

• Solid understanding of project finance and economic concepts.
• Expert understanding of power and financing markets.
• 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.
• Travel required, 0-25%

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $130,000.00 - $160,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Relocation assistance
• Retirement plan
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Work Location: In person

Salary : $130,000 - $160,000