Project Finance Senior Analyst

As Scout’s Senior Financial Analyst, you will leverage your past experience in financial analysis of renewable energy and/or power sector projects to inform strategic decisions in every aspect of Scout’s business. You will provide key support to PPA origination, project finance, corporate finance, and capital recycling transactions. Beyond your financial modeling and analysis, your work will include a combination of engagement with capital providers (debt, tax equity, and equity), and day-to-day management of projects and transactions. You will represent Scout with authentic professionalism to our business partners, counterparties, and stakeholders. In short, you will help to underwrite and execute Scout’s investment strategies across the portfolio of projects. 

You will be responsible for project-based financial modeling and preparing documentation, reporting and analysis to assist investment decisions. Your work will impact many functions across Scout, including: 

• Development: You will provide insight to the Development team about which inputs drive their projects’ financial performance so that they can adapt their development plans accordingly.  

• Origination: Your analysis will inform pricing strategies developed by the Origination team to ensure that the long-term revenue streams will contribute to target rates of return and integrate needed risk management strategies. 

• Project Finance & Capital Markets: You will provide support to project and corporate capital raising transactions. You will build project-specific models, refine and integrate inputs, and determine which scenarios to run based on the project opportunity. You will also support day-to-day management of transactions, coordinate consultants and diligence, and interface with internal and external counterparties. 

• Corporate Finance: While the bulk of your work will focus on project-level finance, you may also inform and assist with corporate-level financial modeling and transactions from time to time. This will include integrating the results of the project models, conducting more specific analysis, preparing reports for our investors, and preparing board papers that present the case for alternative investment options. 

You will work as part of a high performing team within the Project Finance & Capital Markets group.  

Key duties in your role will include the following: 

• Own projects across the investment lifecycle – from origination to financing and commercial operation. 

• Develop and maintain both internal and external fully structured (tax equity, debt, and cash equity) financial models with recent project and corporate assumptions. 

• Coordinate with many different departments internally to maintain financial models, prepare data rooms, and develop key transaction documents.  

• Leverage your subject matter expertise to direct and deliver scenario modeling for investment decisions, capital raising, and contract negotiations. 

• Support project finance, capital markets, and M&A transactions, including responding to due diligence and interfacing with investors, external consultants, and business partners. 

• Assist in building models, tools, processes, and infrastructure that supports the organization's accuracy, efficiency and scalability. 

• Assist in managing construction loan drawdowns and financing agreement compliance. 

• Assist with project budgeting and corporate reporting. 

• Complete other duties as assigned. 

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics or a related field. 
• 2-3 years of experience with project finance models in investment banking and/or the renewable energy industry, including modeling tax equity and debt structures. 
• Experience in closing renewables capital markets transactions (tax equity, project debt, corporate debt) preferred. 
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. 
• Independent learner who can quickly apply lessons learned in one area to all other work areas. 
• Self-motivator with exceptional leadership and communication skills. 
• Ability to prioritize and deliver top-quality work products in multiple areas without direct supervision. 
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail. 
• High emotional IQ – strong interpersonal skills with the desire to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. 
• Experience using influence rather than authority to achieve desired outcomes.  
• Authorized to work in the United States. 

Timeline and Location

We will review resumes for this role on an ongoing basis with a start date as soon as possi