Salary
💰 $116,730 - $221,300 per year
About the role
- Serve as a strategy consultant with clients to resolve energy and infrastructure challenges; specifically challenges associated with optimizing a project’s capital stack, securing funding, and maximizing tax credits
- Provide financial modeling and tax credit advisory expertise for client alternative energy projects, encompassing areas including but not limited to distributed generation, energy storage, electric transportation infrastructure, renewable natural gas, and hydrogen production
- Collaborate with a cross-functional team of energy consulting and tax professionals to guide clients through compliance with energy tax credit regulations, ensuring they maximize incentives while meeting regulatory requirements
- Lead the creation of financial models for client energy projects, incorporating client assumptions, market analysis, and key regulatory considerations for energy tax credits
- Provide expert guidance to clients throughout the project design, development, and construction phases to facilitate the successful claim or transfer of energy tax credits
- Evaluate and model various project finance structures and funding methods, including tax equity, debt financing, and other financial mechanisms, ensuring alignment with client financial and operational objectives
- Analyze and model energy project value streams, including commercial offtake agreements, power purchase agreements, tax credit transfers, and other market-driven revenue models, to optimize financial outcomes
- Advise clients on potential funding sources, including debt, equity, and other public incentives, to be included in energy project capital stacks, as well as key technical and regulatory factors associated with each source
- Analyze and offer strategic guidance to clients on regulatory requirements and market trends across diverse U.S. energy markets
- Manage client interactions and engagement processes for effective communication and collaboration
- Serve on client projects and assist in management of client relationships
- Interview clients to better understand processes and to recommend improvements
- Assist in development of articles, sales proposals and presentations for new business development and client purposes
Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree within business, finance, or engineering, MBA/MPA desirable but not a requirement
- A minimum of five (5) plus years of consulting or project finance experience, including at least two (2) years serving as a project manager
- A minimum of 3 years of experience in the energy industry or applying financial concepts to energy projects through finance or consulting
- Demonstrated management, analytical, organization, interpersonal, project management, communication skills, and highly developed Microsoft Suite skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) required
- Experience building financial models incorporating income statements and cash flows to support business decisions
- Ability to provide exceptional client service, demonstrate commitment to continuous learning, see the "big picture" as well as the details, display appropriate ethical knowledge and commitment, and exhibit a sense of urgency and commitment to quality and the timely completion of duties
- Superb written and oral communication skills; long written deliverables will be required