Senior Consultant, Structured Finance and Grant Funding

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

📋 Description

• Independently develop financing and grant-funding strategies for technology and infrastructure initiatives.

• Facilitate innovative and sustainable business models along with complex funding programs from their inception to implementation.

• Create and validate comprehensive financial models, including CAPEX/OPEX, cash flow assessments, KPIs, and scenario evaluations.

• Assess business models at early Technology Readiness Levels (TRLs), considering technological, economic, and regulatory aspects.

• Oversee and analyze market, competitive, and technological research.

• Identify, evaluate, and structure intricate infrastructure funding programs.

• Develop and manage funding proposals and application documentation.

• Serve as a liaison for project sponsors, ministries, and regional funding entities.

• Prepare eligible cost frameworks.

• Design and execute customized financing solutions.

• Conduct and enhance bankability analyses.

• Independently oversee financing and grant-funding processes until successful completion.

• Prepare for and assist in discussions with banks, funding agencies, venture debt providers, and impact investors.

• Create decision papers, presentations, and information memoranda for upper management and external stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 2–4 years of pertinent professional experience in investment banking, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure consulting, or complex grant-funding management.

• A completed degree in business, industrial engineering, sustainability management, or a related field.

• Strong numerical skills and a thorough understanding of complex project structures.

• Significant hands-on experience in financial modeling using Excel.

• Confident in stakeholder management with banks, ministries, public authorities, and investors.

• Capability to manage projects autonomously.

• Organized working style and a high degree of self-motivation.

• Excellent analytical abilities.

• Interest in specialized subjects related to energy and climate transition.

• Proficient in German, including strong negotiation skills.

• Very good command of the English language.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% remote work from home is an option.

• Maximum flexibility: modern office located in Munich or entirely remote work.

• Independent management of challenging projects with significant responsibility and impact.

• Direct engagement and networking opportunities with senior decision-makers from the business, political, and financial sectors.

• Highly motivated, interdisciplinary team.

• Flat hierarchies.

• Open working environment.

• Authentic hands-on mentality.

• Absence of rigid structures typical of large corporations or conventional investment banking hours.