Project Finance Associate

Summary

The job is for a Project Finance Associate at Scale Microgrid Solutions. The role includes supporting various project financing processes, structuring and negotiating project financing documents, performing due diligence, and leading special projects. The candidate should have a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Engineering, 2+ years of relevant project finance experience, financial modeling skills, familiarity with legal documents and banking arrangements, exceptional communication skills, knowledge of financial markets, and significant experience working as part of cross-functional teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or Engineering
• 2+ years of relevant project finance experience either with a developer or commercial bank in renewable energy or power energy/power/utilities
• Financial modeling skills coupled with good conceptual, strategic, and analytical thinking skills
• Familiarity with legal documents and banking arrangements inherent in project financing
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of financial markets including interest rate conventions, interest rate derivatives
• Significant experience working as part of cross-functional teams, including internal and external stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Support closing and ongoing funding processes, including coordinating reviews and approvals across multi-functional teams, to bring the transaction to financial close under tight timeframes
• Assist with structuring, negotiating, and executing project financing documents, including debt, tax equity, derivatives, and asset acquisition
• Synthesize and model terms of construction loans, tax equity bridge loans, and sponsor equity with back-leverage loans in tax equity partnership structures
• Work with internal and external stakeholders to develop and structure solutions to advance the project execution and investment
• Implement quality assurance and quality control of relevant inputs to such models
• Propose and implement relevant sensitivity analysis for investment opportunities
• Advise internal stakeholders in understanding appropriate risk allocation and compatibility of terms and conditions of various project contracts with existing and pending financing arrangements
• Support processes related to key project documentation and third-party reports, including PPAs, financing term sheets, and agreements. Provide feedback on IE reports, appraisals, insurance reports, etc., and accurately integrate assumptions into financial models
• Lead due diligence efforts associated with capital markets processes (debt, tax equity) as well as M&A opportunities with developers and other sponsors/owners
• Perform other duties and special projects, as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

MBA and/or CFA preferred

Benefits

This is a great opportunity to have a long-term impact on a fast-paced, private equity backed growth business