Distributed Generation Analyst, Renewable Energy
Allied Talent Partners
full-time
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Location: 🇿🇦 South Africa
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Conduct due diligence on greenfield projects, including site assessments, grid connection analysis, and early-stage project evaluation
- Consolidate and analyse information for project teams, providing research and evaluation to support decision-making
- Assist in preparing investment committee materials, project information memoranda (PIMs), and teasers
- Support due diligence processes, including review of project agreements (PPAs, EPC, O&M, SPAs, JDAs)
- Build and improve techno-commercial financial models in Excel to support project evaluations (tariff analysis, wheeling, demand matching, savings)
- Run sensitivity analyses and scenario testing, including stress-testing of assumptions
- Review and update development budgets through to COD and validate assumptions and outputs in financial models
- Prepare and maintain project schedules, coordinating across technical, commercial, legal, and financial teams
- Ensure timely progress of project milestones by managing stakeholder inputs and support efficient execution of live DG projects
- Participate in key industry events and perform risk assessments across financial, commercial, political, and environmental dimensions
- Ensure compliance with governance, regulatory, and risk frameworks and maintain up-to-date knowledge of industry developments
Requirements
- 3–5 years’ relevant experience, ideally in renewable energy project development, project finance, or corporate finance
- Prior renewable energy/IPPs experience strongly preferred
- Exposure to project finance, capital raising, and structuring renewable energy projects
- Demonstrated experience in early-stage due diligence (site assessments, grid connection, permitting inputs)
- Advanced financial modelling skills (cashflows, sensitivity analysis, tariff modelling)
- Degree: BCom (Hons) Finance/Economics or BSc (Hons) Engineering
- Strong analytical, numerical, and communication skills
- Entrepreneurial mindset, proactive approach, and adaptability
- Moderate travel required (quarterly site visits and participation in major industry conferences)