Remote Corporate Development Associate

Summary

Join Coast, a rapidly growing commercial and industrial solar energy firm, as a Corporate Development Associate. This role will facilitate continuous improvement in overall financial outcomes, supporting multiple facets of business and financial analysis across corporate finance, project finance, and treasury.

Requirements

• 3+ years experience as an associate at an investment bank or private equity firm focused on financial services, energy or similar
• 3+ years of solar project finance experience; strong preference for experience in the commercial and industrial solar sector
• Strong technical Excel modeling skills, including extended timeframe modeling of income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements
• Flexible to work extended hours as needed to deliver projects on time
• Detail-oriented with a high degree of accuracy
• MBA and/or CFA preferred

Responsibilities

• Manage all reporting activity, including: All sponsor reporting, including board decks, monthly operations analysis and ad-hoc analysis
• Coordinate the preparation and timely delivery of Investment committee memos to the management team and investment committee
• Reporting to tax equity and debt providers as outlined in the section below
• Senior management reporting and analysis in partnership with the senior management team
• Maintain and improve Coast Energy’s “corporate model” to ensure proactive management of capital strategy and timing, including heightened transparency of capital needs from the Company’s sponsor(s)
• Develop and maintain various financial models at the corporate, sponsor, project and departmental level to empower better decision making
• Reconcile project-level data housed in the Company’s SiteTracker platform against the Company’s ERP and live Excel portfolio analysis models
• Drive improvements to the Company’s tax equity and related models in partnership with the CFO and other team members
• Support the continuous improvement in project-level pricing models in collaboration with the originations pricing analyst team
• Develop benchmarks and key performance indicators for financial and operating performance of the Company including enterprise valuation, budget-versus-actual reporting and other analyses
• Ad hoc projects such as (i) supporting due diligence activities on multiple fronts; (ii) underwriting operating asset acquisitions, framing-up the Company view on a repower strategy from a financial underwriting perspective, energy storage systems, etc
• Drive the optimization of the Company’s capital stack in collaboration with the CFO and other team members by developing smart strategies to reduce Coast Energy’s cost of capital
• Manage liquidity planning, analysis and reporting
• Proactively identify debt and tax equity financing gaps and critical timelines and strategies to bridge anticipated gaps in financing
• Track and report timely debt and tax equity compliance
• Timely create and execute sponsor equity capital calls and debt facility draws
• Review, verify and execute the flow of funds for all equity/debt transactions in partnership with the CFO and other team members
• Create and maintain models to facilitate the determination of future project spending and the reconciliation of actual project spending versus project budget