
Project Finance Associate, Senior Associate, Manager
Encore Renewable Energy
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Vermont • United States
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Salary
💰 $105,000 - $140,000 per year
Job Level
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About the role
- Support the Company’s financial modeling and decision making across Encore’s project finance investments, M&A, capital raising (construction debt, back-leverage, and tax equity) and business development activities;
- Participate in financing transactions throughout the deal lifecycle including financial modeling, due diligence, investor marketing, and definitive documentation, as well as ongoing compliance and management;
- Manage the company’s consolidated portfolio model, making regular updates to core functionality and project inputs for accurate representation of cash flow projections and actuals vs. budget;
- Support the business development team in pricing out project offtake opportunities and other sensitivity analyses, as requested;
- Assess project investments and build presentations for leadership team that accurately analyze and communicate details, capital at risk, return scenarios and sensitivities;
- Manage the financial modeling-related aspects of the company’s monthly reporting process to the capital partner, including synthesizing model outputs into clear and actionable frameworks;
- Identify process improvements, including the creation of standard and ad-hoc reports, tools, and dashboards using Excel;
- Perform other duties as required.
Requirements
- Required: 2–5 years of relevant professional experience, including at least 1–2 years in a dynamic, fast-paced transaction-oriented role involving the development and maintenance of project finance models. Experience must be within investment banking, project finance, infrastructure private equity or a renewable energy IPP.
- Required: Advanced proficiency in Excel (including VBA) and PowerPoint.
- Demonstrated transactional experience in U.S. distributed generation (DG) solar and storage is considered a plus.
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline such as engineering, mathematics, statistics, economics, finance, or a related field. Master's degree considered a plus.
- Robust understanding of the U.S. tax equity market, including structures used to monetize tax credits and related project finance considerations.
- Self-starter with a strong sense of ownership, capable of working independently, managing priorities, and driving workstreams to completion with limited oversight.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to evaluate complex financial and structural risks and communicate insights clearly and concisely to senior management, while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
Benefits
- Complete, high quality medical benefits that include flex time options for child and family care and extended parental leave
- 100% of health-care premiums funded by Encore
- Work-life balance with flexible work schedules (remote work opportunities) and attractive paid-time off policy
- 11 paid holidays (includes 1 floating holiday of employee’s choice)
- One paid volunteer day each fiscal quarter
- 401k profit sharing
- Employee equity participation program
- Continuing education and tuition assistance
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Hard Skills & Tools
financial modelingdue diligencecash flow projectionssensitivity analysesproject finance modelstransactional experiencetax equityanalytical skillsproblem-solving skillspresentation skills
Soft Skills
self-starterownershipindependent workpriority managementcommunication skillsattention to detail