Director, Finance & Investment

Encore Renewable Energy • Burlington, VT

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About The Position

Encore Renewable Energy is seeking an experienced, commercially minded finance professional to serve as Director or Senior Director of Finance & Investment. This senior member of the finance team will lead project finance underwriting, capital formation, investment analysis, and transaction execution across Encore’s solar and energy storage portfolio. The position requires independent ownership of complex workstreams, sound investment judgment, effective communication with senior management and capital partners, and the ability to drive transactions from initial evaluation through closing and ongoing portfolio management.

Working closely with the Chief Financial and Investment Officer, the successful candidate will operate with a high degree of autonomy, develop and mentor junior team members, and partner across development, construction, asset management, accounting, legal, and executive leadership. The role includes leading financial modeling and investment decisions; evaluating project and portfolio investments; managing financing transactions and capital-provider relationships; overseeing reporting; and continuously improving models, standards, processes, and workflows. The anticipated base salary range is $180,000–$210,000 for a Director-level position, with the range potentially extending higher for a Senior Director depending on experience, transaction leadership, and scope of responsibility.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of relevant transactional experience in project finance, infrastructure investing, M&A, investment banking, or principal investing, including significant U.S. renewable energy sector experience.
• Demonstrated experience independently leading renewable energy financings or investments through closing, including structuring, underwriting, diligence, negotiation, documentation, and internal approvals.
• Deep understanding of U.S. renewable energy project finance, including construction debt, back-leverage, tax equity, ITC transferability, project-level cash waterfalls, debt sizing, and covenant analysis.
• Advanced financial modeling skills, including the ability to build, audit, manage, and interpret complex project and portfolio finance models and translate outputs into investment recommendations.
• Strong commercial and investment judgment, including the ability to identify material risks, challenge assumptions, balance competing considerations, and make recommendations with incomplete information.
• Ability to manage multiple complex transactions and priorities, establish workplans and deadlines, and drive cross-functional teams toward decisions and closing milestones.
• Experience managing senior internal stakeholders and external capital-provider relationships, including banks, institutional investors, tax equity investors, advisors, and legal counsel.
• Strong executive-level written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex financial and transaction matters to senior management, investment committees, boards, and external counterparties.
• Leadership capabilities, including mentoring and developing junior team members, reviewing analytical work, and establishing standards for accuracy, judgment, and execution.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, business, engineering, mathematics, statistics, or a related field.
• Expert-level proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Working technical and commercial knowledge of solar and battery energy storage technologies and the revenue, operating, interconnection, and construction considerations that affect project economics.
• Self-starter with ownership, accountability, integrity, and emotional intelligence; able to work independently in an entrepreneurial environment and collaborate across functions.
• Team-oriented leader willing to work across organizational boundaries and take on responsibilities beyond a narrowly defined role when needed.

Nice To Haves

• For Senior Director candidates, generally 10 or more years of relevant experience and a demonstrated record of leading complex transactions.
• Experience with both solar and energy storage.
• MBA or another relevant graduate degree.
• Experience with VBA, Python, Power BI, or other analytical and automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead financial modeling, underwriting, and investment decisions across project finance investments, M&A, capital raising, and business development.
• Evaluate project and portfolio investments, including returns, capital at risk, financing assumptions, downside cases, sensitivities, and recommendations to senior leadership.
• Prepare and present investment materials to management and investment committees throughout the project lifecycle, clearly communicating risks, value drivers, assumptions, and recommendations.
• Lead financing transactions from strategy through closing, including structuring, modeling, lender and investor engagement, due diligence, term sheet negotiation, documentation, closing, post-closing compliance, and relationship management.
• Develop and maintain relationships with banks, tax equity investors, tax credit buyers, institutional capital providers, advisors, and other financing counterparties; support capital-markets strategy and evaluate new financing structures.
• Partner with development and commercial teams to evaluate project economics, price offtake opportunities, assess acquisitions, and establish financial parameters for investment decisions.
• Oversee recurring financial and portfolio reporting to capital partners and senior management, ensuring accurate, timely, useful analysis and clear communication of performance, risks, liquidity, and capital requirements.
• Coordinate with accounting, treasury, legal, construction, and asset management to integrate financing assumptions, forecasts, transaction requirements, and financial reporting.
• Own and improve project finance models, underwriting standards, investment-committee processes, reporting tools, and transaction workflows, emphasizing scalability, consistency, controls, and efficient use of data.
• Lead, coach, and quality-check junior finance team members, including reviewing models, analyses, presentations, and transaction deliverables.
• Serve as a senior finance resource across the organization and take ownership of strategic and ad hoc analyses as business needs evolve.

Benefits

• Complete, high-quality medical benefits, including flexible-time options for child and family care and extended parental leave.
• Encore funds 100% of health-care premiums.
• Flexible work schedules, remote work opportunities, and an attractive paid-time-off policy.
• 11 paid holidays, including one floating holiday of the employee’s choice.
• One paid volunteer day each fiscal quarter.
• 401k profit sharing.
• Employee equity participation program.
• Continuing education and tuition assistance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior