Acquisitions, Investments, and Financial Advisory ("AIFA") Sr. Manager

What You Can Expect

As our Acquisition, Investment, and Financial Advisor (AIFA) Senior Manager, you will develop business cases and provide supporting project financial analyses to guide the investment for greenfield investment, Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) projects.  You can work a hybrid schedule from our Houston, TX office.

Every day you will be responsible for leading the valuation, structuring guidance, advise on commercial agreements, risk allocation, bankability of contracts, financing alternatives, and expected investment returns throughout the business development process of investments, mergers and acquisition, and project financing plans. You will present investment opportunities to ENGIE leadership, defend project economics, and risks for the review committees.

• Develop, analyze, evaluate and recommend financial options and proposals as they relate to business development projects or other funding needs
• Advise internal stakeholders in understanding appropriate risk allocation, bankability of terms and conditions of various project contracts and provide general structuring advice and optimization of returns throughout the business development process
• Structure, negotiate and execute financing documents (internal or project finance) for medium to large size transactions
• Identify main project economic and financial risks and advise on the appropriate mitigation factors and definition of appropriate contingencies
• Develop and maintain financial models to support investment decisions, following group guidelines. Maintain responsibility for the accuracy and correct incorporation of relevant inputs to such models. Propose and implement relevant sensitivity analysis for investment files
• Assist the business development decision making process and manage internal approvals process for new economic commitments and associated financing arrangements
• Create and lead presentations for lender and management updates and discussions
• Coach and mentor more junior members of the AIFA team

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in one of the following fields: Finance, Business, Economics, Accounting, Engineering, Math, or a STEM-focused degree program where you have learned project management, project financing, investments, equity, mergers, acquisitions, power, energy, or renewable market skills
• Minimum of ten (10) years of relevant experience in all aspects of project finance and M&A transactions where you lead the modeling/analysis, drive the structuring, negotiating legal documentation, execution of transactions and detailed financial modeling for each project from start of the development process to the successful closing of an investment or acquisition
• Broad power industry expertise, including working in retail, energy services, renewables and / or generation markets
• Investment analysis experience in the clean energy sector at a developer, fund, bank, or consultant
• Detailed financial modeling, including a project finance and accounting component, with a strong proficiency working in EXCEL  You have worked in environments where you have worked alone or in a team structuring and closing M&A and/or financing transactions, including reviewing, and negotiating legal documentation
• Knowledge of US merchant power markets drivers, hedging
• instruments, Tax Equity Structures, and IRS requir