Director, Finance & Investment

Encore Renewable Energy • Burlington, VT

22h • $180,000 - $210,000

About The Position

Encore Renewable Energy seeks an experienced, commercially minded finance professional for a senior role leading project finance underwriting, capital formation, investment analysis, and transaction execution across its solar and energy storage portfolio. The Director / Senior Director will own complex workstreams, exercise investment judgment, communicate with senior management and capital partners, and guide transactions from initial evaluation through closing and ongoing portfolio management.

Working closely with the Chief Financial and Investment Officer, the successful candidate will operate autonomously, develop and mentor junior team members, and partner with colleagues across development, construction, asset management, accounting, legal, and executive leadership. This is a broad-ownership role in a high-growth, entrepreneurial clean energy company.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of relevant transactional experience in project finance, infrastructure investing, M&A, investment banking, or principal investing, with 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 and ability to build, audit, manage, and interpret complex project and portfolio finance models and translate results into investment recommendations.
• Strong commercial and investment judgment, including 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 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 high 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 affecting project economics.
• Self-starter with ownership, accountability, integrity, and emotional intelligence; comfortable working independently and collaborating 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

• Senior Director candidates will generally be expected to have at least 10 years of relevant experience and a demonstrated record of leading complex transactions.
• Experience with both solar and energy storage is strongly preferred.
• 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, communicating risks, value drivers, assumptions, and recommendations.
• Lead financing transactions from strategy through closing, including structuring, modeling, engaging lenders and investors, due diligence, term-sheet negotiation, documentation, closing, and post-closing compliance and relationship management.
• Develop relationships with banks, tax equity investors, tax credit buyers, institutional capital providers, advisors, and other financing counterparties; support capital-markets strategy and evaluation of financing structures.
• Partner with development and commercial teams to evaluate project economics, price offtake opportunities, assess acquisitions, and establish financial parameters.
• Oversee recurring financial and portfolio reporting to capital partners and senior management, ensuring timely, accurate, decision-useful analysis of performance, risks, liquidity, and capital requirements.
• Coordinate with accounting, treasury, legal, construction, and asset management teams to integrate financing assumptions, forecasts, transaction requirements, and financial reporting.
• Improve project finance models, underwriting standards, investment-committee processes, reporting tools, and transaction workflows, focusing on scalability, consistency, controls, and efficient use of data.
• Lead, coach, and quality-check junior team members’ models, analyses, presentations, and transaction deliverables.
• Serve as a senior finance resource and own strategic and ad hoc analyses as business needs evolve.

Benefits

• Complete medical benefits, including flex-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.
• 401(k) profit sharing.
• Employee equity participation program.
• Continuing education and tuition assistance.

What This Job Offers

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