Environmental Finance - Asset Manager

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Job Description

USBIF is currently seeking a candidate to join our growing team of environmental finance professionals as an Asset Manager (AM). The AM’s responsibilities include identifying and mitigating risk, managing the overall customer relationship, and underwriting and executing amendments and modifications for portfolio of complex renewable energy tax equity investments and related products (predominantly solar, wind, and battery storage systems).

Job Responsibilities

• Monitor project construction and development milestones, analyze project performance, and continually monitor risk profile of investments in compliance with all applicable banking regulatory requirements and internal procedures.

• Through the project financing stage, work with external partners, review due diligence for fundings, prepare funding packages, ensure project milestones are reached, and prepare monthly forecasting of equity fundings and credit delivery, and quarterly priority return collection, ensuring delivery of all projected investment benefits.

• Review complex legal documents pertaining to structured credit arrangements; works with counsel and business partners to negotiate and mitigate risks on behalf of USBIF.

• Timely and thoroughly review all due diligence documentation (including financial projections and third-party reports) with attention to detail, proactively identifying issues to be addressed. 

• Review and analyze financial models and be able to identify and address underwriting, cash flow, and accounting risks.

• Prepare high-quality underwriting packages in support of post-closing deal amendments, modifications, or restructures, describing the strengths, weaknesses, risks, and mitigating factors related to a transaction.

• Manage through project issues that may arise and provide value-added solutions, proactively identifying uncertainties and grey-area situations to take well-reasoned and well-mitigated risk. Articulate the Bank’s position to customers, and advocate on behalf of Sponsors with Credit and management.

• Provide a high level of customer service through clear communication, managing internal and external customer expectations, and meeting commitments.

• Coordinate with a variety of internal and external parties to facilitate management of investments.

• Engage in the virtual team experience by active engagement in team meetings, trainings, and activities. Enhance the learning experience of other team members, and contribute to a collegial, collaborative team environment.

Basic Qualifications
- Typically Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
- Typically five or more years of related experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Proven credit management, underwriting and financial analysis skills, including cash flow analysis experience with complex, structured transactions, due diligence proficiency and detail orientation.

• Knowledge of financial modeling techniques and analysis of proforma financial statements.

• Comprehension of complex deal structure mechanics.

• Knowledge of critical aspects of renewable energy project management, including equipment and performance review as well as a baseline understanding of U.S. energy markets including regulatory structures, physical and synthetic forms of power agreements and derivative instruments.

• Ability to review and synthesize a large quantity of deal related documentation and materials, including third party reports, loan/investment documents, and other legal documents. Able to identify key issues and concerns, manage timelines, and problem solve using creativity and innovation.

• Familiarity with standard banking processes and procedures, including managing to credit policies and procedures and navigating credit approval processes.

• Excellent time management skills with the ability to effectively manage internal and client timelines and needs. Ability to identify obstacles and manage expectations.

• Effective listener and strong communication skills, both oral and written. 

• Highly motivated self-starter who has a keen attention to detail, growth