Director, Capital Markets

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Formulate and implement capital-markets strategies that align with growth objectives, operational requirements, acquisition activities, refinancing efforts, capital investments, and long-term capital-structure goals.

• Assess financing options and recommend combinations of debt, equity, structured financing, leasing, asset-backed financing, private placements, revolving credit facilities, and alternative funding sources.

• Oversee the structuring, negotiation, due diligence, and execution of financing transactions, which include credit facilities, term loans, notes, letters of credit, guarantees, and various debt or capital instruments.

• Manage liquidity and capital-structure planning, encompassing cash-flow forecasting, borrowing capacity, debt-service obligations, working-capital requirements, debt maturities, covenant headroom, and contingency funding strategies.

• Analyze market conditions, borrowing costs, leverage, interest expenses, credit metrics, refinancing risks, and other financial exposures; suggest actions to maintain liquidity and financial adaptability.

• Collaborate with Treasury and Accounting on reporting, accounting practices, disclosures, controls, and audit preparedness for debt, derivatives, financing costs, and capital-markets activities.

• Develop and sustain relationships with banks, lenders, institutional investors, private-credit providers, rating agencies, underwriters, legal counsel, and financial consultants.

• Direct communications with lenders, investors, and rating agencies, including the provision of financial models, diligence materials, presentations, and recommendations for executives or the Board.

• Work alongside the CFO, Treasurer, FP&A, Accounting, Legal, Corporate Development, Investor Relations, and business leaders to formulate financing strategies, acquisitions, capital allocation, transaction execution, and financial risk oversight.

• Lead, nurture, and mentor the Capital Markets team; enhance transaction processes, financial models, reporting, governance, controls, and documentation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related quantitative discipline.

• 8–12+ years of increasingly responsible experience in capital markets, treasury, corporate finance, investment banking, private equity, corporate development, commercial banking, or a similar field.

• Proven experience in evaluating, structuring, negotiating, and executing debt, equity, or other financing transactions.

• Experience in managing liquidity, debt facilities, capital structures, financial covenants, lender reporting, and external financing relationships.

• In-depth understanding of capital-markets instruments, financing structures, debt-market dynamics, financial risk management, and capital-structure planning.

• Advanced skills in financial modeling, valuation, scenario analysis, and analytical capabilities.

• Experience in evaluating financing alternatives, debt capacity, covenant headroom, borrowing costs, interest-rate exposure, and liquidity considerations.

• High proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, financial planning software, treasury management systems, and ERP systems.

• Demonstrated capability to manage complex financing workflows and coordinate with internal stakeholders, lenders, investors, advisors, and legal counsel from initial analysis to closing and post-close compliance.

• Strong executive communication skills, with the ability to convey intricate financial matters clearly to senior leaders, Boards, lenders, investors, and external advisors.

• Highly developed negotiation, relationship management, stakeholder influencing, and sound judgment skills.

• Exceptional attention to detail and a disciplined approach to controls, confidentiality, documentation, and financial risk.

• Preferred: MBA, CPA, CFA, CTP, or a similar professional designation.

• Preferred experience in public-company financing, investor relations, rating agencies, high-yield credit, private credit, project finance, or intricate multi-entity structures.

• Preferred experience in financing for data centers, cloud, AI infrastructure, technology, energy, or other capital-intensive business sectors.

• Preferred experience in supporting mergers and acquisitions, acquisition financing, corporate restructuring, refinancing, or large capital investment initiatives.

• Preferred experience in debt or derivative accounting, debt compliance reporting, capital allocation frameworks, or Board-level liquidity and financing analyses.

• Preferred prior experience in people leadership roles.

🏝️ Benefits

• Benefits

• Equity

• Competitive salaries

• Great benefits