Finance Manager

Summary

Join CleanChoice Energy, a leading renewable energy provider, as their Manager of Finance. This crucial role involves supporting the strategic and capital transaction team through financial analysis and presentations, developing and maintaining financial models, and evaluating capital alternatives. You will collaborate closely with various teams, including M&A, Investor Relations, and Financial Planning & Analysis, to ensure alignment with the company's financial strategy. The position requires strong financial modeling skills, GAAP accounting knowledge, and excellent communication abilities. Experience in a transactional role within the renewable energy sector is preferred. CleanChoice offers a competitive salary, an incentive plan, and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Outstanding financial modeling skills
• Strong knowledge of GAAP accounting
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including comfort interacting with internal management and financing counterparties
• 3-5 years’ experience in a transactional role, preferably in investment banking, working for a renewable energy development company, or in another role performing detailed financial analyses
• Bachelor’s degree, ideally in a quantitative field, Finance, or Accounting
• A modeling test will be administered during the interview process

Responsibilities

• Support the iterative development of the company’s strategic plan, aligning it with overall business objectives and market opportunities
• Work closely with the CSO, CFO and business line leaders to align short term and long term financial forecasting
• Support the iterative development of the enterprise long term strategic plan (7-year) and scenario planning (trade-offs, risks and opportunities)
• Model strategic forecasting related to the integration of the generation and the retail sides of the business
• Conduct market analysis to identify emerging trends, opportunities, and competitive threats
• Utilize data-driven insights to inform strategic decisions
• Identify potential risks and mitigation strategies to ensure the long-term sustainability of the company
• Support the advancement of CleanChoice’s capital stack
• Prepare funding packages for potential credit providers
• Maintain transaction data rooms, participate in due diligence processes across the organization, and manage 3rd party consultants and stakeholders for M&A, debt and equity financing processes
• Verify project inputs in financial models with internal subject matter experts
• Assist with negotiating term sheets by converting prospective terms into modeled analyses, and reviewing the accuracy of final model inputs/outputs in the definitive documentation
• Identify and evaluate potential business development opportunities, including financings, mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and new market entry
• Utilize financial modeling and analysis to evaluate opportunities
• Support the team on identifying appropriate deal structure, negotiation strategy and transaction term tolerances as well as partnering with internal and external legal counsel on negotiations and documenting the transaction
• Support the preparation of materials to obtain executive and Board approvals for transactions
• Support communication to investors, shareholders, and employees ensuring unified, consistent, timely, and accurate materials

Preferred Qualifications

• Renewable energy financial modeling experience
• Knowledge of equity and debt structures in the renewable energy space; or conceptual understanding of power markets

Benefits

• Base salary range of $120,000 - $140,000
• An incentive plan
• A robust benefits package