Director, Finance & Investment

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

📋 Description

• Lead the financial modeling, underwriting, and investment decision-making processes for project finance investments, M&A, capital raising, and business development initiatives.

• Take charge of evaluating project and portfolio investments, which includes returns analysis, capital-at-risk assessment, financing assumptions, downside scenarios, sensitivities, and presenting recommendations to senior leadership.

• Oversee the preparation and presentation of investment materials to management and investment committees.

• Manage financing transactions from strategy development to closing, encompassing structuring, modeling, lender and investor engagement, due diligence, negotiation, documentation, closing, and post-closing compliance.

• Cultivate and maintain relationships with banks, tax equity investors, tax credit purchasers, institutional capital providers, advisors, and other financing counterparts.

• Collaborate with development and commercial teams to assess project economics, pricing offtake opportunities, evaluate acquisitions, and set financial parameters.

• Supervise ongoing financial and portfolio reporting to capital partners and senior management.

• Work in partnership with accounting, treasury, legal, construction, and asset management teams.

• Enhance project finance models, underwriting standards, investment committee processes, reporting tools, and transaction workflows.

• Provide leadership, mentoring, and quality control for junior finance team members.

• Act as a senior finance resource, handling strategic and ad hoc analyses.

• Function autonomously while working closely with the Chief Financial and Investment Officer and cross-functional teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of relevant transactional experience in project finance, infrastructure investing, M&A, investment banking, or principal investing.

• Extensive experience in the U.S. renewable energy sector.

• Proven track record of independently leading renewable energy financings or investments to completion.

• In-depth knowledge of U.S. renewable energy project finance, including construction debt, back-leverage, tax equity, ITC transferability, project-level cash waterfalls, debt sizing, and covenant analysis.

• Preference for candidates with experience in solar and energy storage.

• Proficient financial modeling capabilities.

• Strong commercial and investment judgment.

• Capacity to manage multiple complex transactions and priorities concurrently.

• Experience in managing relationships with senior internal stakeholders and external capital providers.

• Excellent executive-level written and verbal communication skills.

• Demonstrated leadership skills, including mentoring and developing junior team members.

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, business, engineering, mathematics, statistics, or a related field.

• Expert-level proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.

• Working technical and commercial knowledge of solar and battery energy storage technologies.

• Self-motivated individual with a sense of ownership, accountability, integrity, and emotional intelligence.

• A team-oriented leader willing to collaborate across organizational boundaries.

• An MBA or other relevant graduate degree is advantageous.

• Familiarity with VBA, Python, Power BI, or other analytical and automation tools is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive, high-quality medical benefits including flexible time options for child and family care as well as extended parental leave.

• 100% of healthcare premiums covered by Encore.

• Flexible work schedules and opportunities for remote work.

• Competitive paid-time-off policy.

• 11 paid holidays, which includes one floating holiday of the employee's choice.

• One paid volunteer day per fiscal quarter.

• 401k profit-sharing plan.

• Employee equity participation program.

• Continuing education and tuition assistance opportunities.