About the Role
Our client focuses on building, owning, and operating flexible infrastructure, providing resilience and independence to customers and long-life assets to investors. They believe climate change is a critical threat to global stability, and its mitigation presents a unique wealth creation opportunity. Their objectives are to enable the energy transition, ease capital formation for decarbonization, enhance energy resilience, and expedite hydrocarbon generation retirement.
They are seeking a Project Finance Manager to be a leading contributor to their finance department in project diligence, asset underwriting, and project financing. Reporting to the Director of Structured Finance, the successful candidate will be responsible for developing, managing, and owning financial models for PearlX's energy asset portfolio throughout each project's lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Lead financial modeling efforts for project cashflows, accounting, and valuation outputs across individual projects and multi-site portfolios
- Analyze scenarios and sensitivities based on real-world feedback to optimize project structures and configurations
- Oversee asset underwriting and pricing, and tracking. Implement changes in relevant inputs to the asset underwriting model from origination to commissioning
- Guide procurement and EPC processes, focusing on warranty terms, insurance, and performance guarantees to ensure 'bankability'
- Support financing work streams for raising tax equity, debt, and equity for energy assets, emphasizing financial analysis, modeling, and due diligence
- Provide executive-level reporting on portfolio economics, corporate cash forecasting, and budgeting
- Manage internal and external communications to coordinate deliverable timing and facilitate informed decision-making
Required Skills
- Entrepreneurial with a start-up mindset
- Passionate about energy transition and decarbonization
- Experienced in energy concepts, and familiar with real estate (preferred)
- Proficient in financial modeling and innovative infrastructure asset underwriting
- A hands-on tactician and strategic executor
Preferred Sills
- 5-10 years of relevant experience in project finance, corporate finance, or renewable energy project analysis/valuation
- Familiarity with renewable energy project economics, incentives, tax credits, and energy markets
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Google Business tools
- Demonstrated leadership and team management abilities in a fast-paced environment
