Director, Finance & Investment
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Finance director leading project finance, capital formation, and investment transactions for Encore Renewable Energy’s solar and storage portfolio. Driving underwriting, financing, and portfolio management.
Responsibilities:
- Lead financial modeling, underwriting, and investment decision-making across project finance investments, M&A, capital raising, and business development activities
- Own evaluation of project and portfolio investments, including returns analysis, capital-at-risk assessment, financing assumptions, downside cases, sensitivities, and recommendations to senior leadership
- Lead preparation and presentation of investment materials to management and investment committees
- Lead financing transactions from strategy through closing, including structuring, modeling, lender and investor engagement, due diligence, negotiation, documentation, closing, and post-closing compliance
- Develop and maintain relationships with banks, tax equity investors, tax credit buyers, institutional capital providers, advisors, and other financing counterparties
- 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
- Partner with accounting, treasury, legal, construction, and asset management teams
- Improve project finance models, underwriting standards, investment committee processes, reporting tools, and transaction workflows
- Provide leadership, coaching, and quality control for junior finance team members
- Serve as a senior finance resource and own strategic and ad hoc analyses
- Operate with autonomy while working closely with the Chief Financial and Investment Officer and cross-functional teams
Requirements:
- 8+ years of relevant transactional experience in project finance, infrastructure investing, M&A, investment banking, or principal investing
- Significant experience in the U.S. renewable energy sector
- Demonstrated experience independently leading renewable energy financings or investments through closing
- 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
- Experience with both solar and energy storage strongly preferred
- Advanced financial modeling skills
- Strong commercial and investment judgment
- Ability to manage multiple complex transactions and priorities simultaneously
- Experience managing relationships with senior internal stakeholders and external capital providers
- Strong executive-level written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated leadership capabilities, including mentoring and developing junior team members
- 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
- Self-starter with ownership, accountability, integrity, and emotional intelligence
- Team-oriented leader willing to work across organizational boundaries
- MBA or other relevant graduate degree is a plus
- Experience with VBA, Python, Power BI, or other analytical and automation tools is a plus
Benefits:
- Complete, high quality medical benefits including flex time options for child and family care and extended parental leave
- 100% of health-care premiums funded by Encore
- Flexible work schedules and remote work opportunities
- Attractive paid-time-off policy
- 11 paid holidays, including 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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