Director, Project Structuring & Valuation

Vesper Energy Development•Albuquerque, NM

9d•Remote

About The Position

The Director, Project Structuring and Valuation is responsible for leading the valuation and structuring of development projects, including project underwriting, valuation standards, and financial modeling across Vesper Energy’s solar and storage portfolio. This role owns portfolio valuation standards, modeling conventions, underwriting discipline, and valuation quality controls that support capital allocation and financing decisions. The Director reports to the CFO and partners closely with Development, Legal, Commercial, and FP&A, and interacts with external investors and lenders to support capital structure decisions and diligence needs. This position also supports project financings (debt and or tax equity) as applicable, including economics support, diligence coordination, and closing readiness.

Requirements

Education: Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, Business Administration, Engineering, or related field required.
Years of Experience: Minimum 8+ years of progressive experience in project finance (debt and tax equity), structured finance, investment banking, M&A or valuation within energy or infrastructure sectors. The experience must include management experience in complex modeling workstreams and cross functional coordination and investment committee material preparation and approval, tax equity and debt financing process.
Demonstrated ability to model Vesper's values, Accountability, Respect, Courage, Collaboration, and Continuous Improvement, through day-to-day behaviors (e.g., flags risks early, communicates directly, involves the right stakeholders early, and documents and shares learnings).
Proficiency in financial modeling, analysis, and relevant software/tools.
Solid understanding and hands-on experience with project underwriting, valuation and financial modeling.
Deep expertise in utility scale solar and storage financial modeling including merchant revenue assumptions, offtake structure, tax equity structures, and debt financing
Strong ability to translate portfolio strategy and capital allocation priorities into underwriting standards and analytical frameworks
Proven experience leading analysts and managers, setting expectations, reviewing outputs, and developing technical capability
Advanced understanding of power market fundamentals, forward curves, and revenue risk allocation
Ability to evaluate and structure complex transactions including construction loans, term debt, and tax equity investments and sell down analysis
Strong executive communication skills with the ability to present valuation assumptions, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to senior leadership
Demonstrated capability to improve modeling tools, documentation standards and streamline and continue modeling process with strong quality control to reduce risk, rework and inefficiency.
Strong cross functional collaboration skills to align Development, Legal, Finance, FP&A, Commercial and EPC teams on financial assumptions and transaction structure.

Nice To Haves

MBA or other relevant advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead and manage project level underwriting and valuation processes across solar and storage development, construction, and operating assets
Manage team of financial analysts to managers performing financial analysis, project structuring and valuation.
Drive development and continuous improvement of standardized financial models, assumptions libraries, and underwriting criteria to ensure consistency and accuracy
Establish and enforce valuation and modeling quality controls, including review checklists, version control standards, and documentation requirements that reduce rework and errors
Partner with Development and Strategy to evaluate capital allocation decisions, pricing strategy, and portfolio prioritization
Manage and develop the project valuation team, setting clear deliverables, quality standards, and performance expectations
Analyze power market fundamentals, merchant exposure, and revenue forecasts to ensure accurate integration into financial models
Deliver executive ready analyses that clearly articulate valuation outcomes, downside risks, and tradeoffs to senior leadership
Establish quality control procedures and version management standards to ensure modeling integrity and audit readiness
Collaborate cross functionally to align modeling priority and manage inputs, transaction structures, and underwriting assumptions to deliver wholistic presentations of project economics and risks to Project Risk Committee and Capital Risk Committee
Support project financings, including construction loans, term loans, letters of credit, and tax equity fundings.
Other duties as assigned.