Project Finance Associate

Recurrent Energy•New York, NY

1d•Onsite

About The Position

We are seeking an Associate to join the Project Finance team at Recurrent Energy, a subsidiary of Canadian Solar. This team member will be responsible for supporting/managing debt and tax equity capital raising for Recurrent Energy’s solar and battery storage projects as well as providing sophisticated financial modeling to identify creative solutions to profitability objectives. This role is highly visible within the organization and requires cross functional collaboration with many different internal and external groups. We are looking for someone with intellectual curiosity, high motivation, and excellent communication and process management skills that is pursuing a long-term career in project finance.

Requirements

3- 5 years of relevant experience required.
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.
Long-term career interest in renewable project finance capital raising and investing.
Must have strong financial modeling and analytical skills.
Strong verbal communication skills while prone to collaboration
Expertise in modeling and structuring tax equity.
Solid understanding of project finance and economic concepts.
Expert understanding of power and financing markets.
Highly proficient in MS Excel, MS Word, and MS PowerPoint.
Solution and goal oriented.
Growth mindset.
Resourceful and comfortable working in an unstructured, entrepreneurial environment; this is a transaction-based environment where requirements and deadlines are dictated by deal flow.
Strong quantitative aptitude with an extremely high level of attention to detail.
Interested in working in a fast-growing industry that is making a tangible impact on climate change.
Ability to translate complex quantitative analysis into written, deliverable insights.
Highly driven, proactive, and hardworking.
Self-starter that takes pride in optimizing financial models and overall work products.

Responsibilities

Provide leadership of financial modeling and profitability analysis: Take responsibility over content and output of the project financing model. Provide guidance and quality control to future analysts regarding inputs, structure, etc. and confirm that the model adequately and accurately reflects the underlying transaction, current market conditions, optimized commercial results, and best practices
Build bespoke structured financing models that accurately reflect terms of various financing vehicles and markets that are not otherwise captured in existing tools
Demonstrate a strong understanding of the causal relationships between inputs and outputs of a model and identify multi-dimensional layers of improvement to overall profitability of projects
Model profitability of projects under various financing structures (tax equity and debt) and help make corresponding project capital structure recommendations
Provide leadership and coaching to future analysts in the team
Independently manage third party financial models and consultant reports, and assist in negotiating transaction documents in a manner that is consistent with the overall project objective and strategy of the financing
Collaborate with Business Analytics team to ensure that development-stage project models adequately reflect debt and tax equity market terms and structures
Support deal leads for project financing transactions: Assist with preparation of marketing materials, ensuring the presentation materials are accurate, clean, and reflect the overall message and intention of the transaction
Review and assist with negotiating term sheets and definitive documentation
Coordinate with third party financing providers on due diligence and documentation
Maintain responsibility for financial deal models for debt and tax equity transactions while working closely with external counterparties and internal teams
Create proposals, information memoranda, presentations, project schedules and internal presentations
Assist with gathering and presenting information for financial partners performing due diligence on Recurrent Energy’s projects
Review of key contracts, term sheets, or other documents for impact on profitability, financial modeling, and overall financeability
Facilitate flow of information between finance, development, power marketing, legal and engineering teams during transaction execution
Manage deadlines and maintain accountability from cross-functional deal teams; lead peers across the organization with confidence and dedication.