Associate IV, Capital Project Analytics

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Job Description

X- Energy, LLC is seeking an Associate, IV, Capital Project Analytics responsible for developing and owning complex cost models for cutting-edge nuclear projects. This role plays a critical part in shaping the economic foundation of capital projects, supporting billion-dollar investment decisions, and ensuring that the Xe-100 remains at the forefront of energy transition efforts. The position manages the end-to-end process of financial modeling, from structure and assumptions to outputs and strategy, collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure accuracy and alignment across the organization.

 

Responsibilities:

• Lead the development and evolution of capital project models across a portfolio of infrastructure and energy investments, ensuring that they are reliable, accurate, and support long-term decision-making.
• Build comprehensive financial models that integrate cost estimates, schedules, phasing, escalation, financing, risk assessments, and returns from early feasibility through to execution.
• Drive alignment and clarity across clients, executives, engineers, and commercial teams by presenting, defending, and explaining models.
• Collaborate with estimators, engineers, and procurement leads to ensure input data is robust and well-grounded, while also applying your own judgment to challenge and refine assumptions.
• Streamline and enhance modeling processes, tools, and data architecture to improve speed, accuracy, and transparency within the organization.
• Track project performance against original financial assumptions, analyze variances, and provide recommendations for future strategies.
• Build effective dashboards and reporting frameworks to translate model outputs into actionable insights for real-world decision-making.
• Contribute to the development of business cases, respond to RFIs, and help structure deals, including financing and off-take components.
• Utilize estimating software to perform quantity takeoffs, develop cost estimate models, and generate custom reports.
• Maintain professional demeanor and behavior at all times in all forms of communication.
• Perform other duties as assigned by manager.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, engineering, or a related field.
• Typically, ten years’ experience in investment banking, project finance, consulting, infrastructure private equity, or a capital-intensive operating company.
• Expert level skills in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience translating complex models into clear insights and communicating them fluently to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience building, owning, and presenting dynamic models that support major investments or deals.
• Lead the execution of the core tasks and responsibilities, listed in the Responsibilities section of this document, without close supervision and some latitude for independent judgment.
• Provide feedback and guidance to more junior team members with the execution of the core tasks and responsibilities listed in the Job Profile Task/Responsibilities section of this document.
• Shares knowledge related to industry best practices and standards with others across the team.

Location: 530 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD
Travel Expectations:  5%      
Work Site Expectations:  4-5 days a week in office     
Hours:  8:00am-5:00pm, Mon-Fri   

Compensation

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