Senior Vice President, Capital Markets, Investments – Project Finance

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

📋 Description

• Collaborate with the CFO, CEO, and executive leadership team to develop and implement the capital markets strategy.

• Spearhead capital raising efforts across various financing structures including project, portfolio, asset, and corporate financing.

• Analyze and execute on construction debt, term debt, back-leverage facilities, tax equity, tax credit transfers, preferred equity, growth equity, corporate debt, revolving credit facilities, joint ventures, portfolio financings, and structured capital solutions.

• Formulate financing strategies that balance cost of capital, liquidity, execution certainty, covenants, risk allocation, and long-term enterprise value.

• Lead negotiations with banks, institutional investors, infrastructure funds, tax equity providers, private credit providers, investment banks, rating agencies, and other capital partners.

• Manage financing processes from initial market engagement to closing and ensure post-closing compliance.

• Establish and nurture relationships with capital providers while monitoring trends in capital markets and renewable energy financing.

• Create capitalization roadmaps and advise on the timing, structures, and groupings for project financing.

• Evaluate project readiness, capital constraints, concentration risks, funding gaps, and financing dependencies.

• Oversee financial underwriting for community solar, distributed generation, energy storage, and related investments.

• Set underwriting standards, investment criteria, risk classifications, and minimum return thresholds.

• Analyze project and portfolio economics, assess risks, identify performance variances, and recommend corrective actions.

• Provide executive oversight on project, portfolio, financing, and enterprise financial models.

• Conduct sensitivity, scenario, and downside analyses while evaluating IRR, NPV, ROIC, cash yield, debt-service coverage, leverage, and payback periods.

• Establish governance for financial models and develop an integrated enterprise model.

• Lead the preparation and presentation of capitalization and investment recommendations to the Investment Committee.

• Supervise IC memos, underwriting summaries, financing comparisons, risk assessments, approval documents, and follow-up tracking.

• Provide executive leadership and strategic guidance for FP&A.

• Oversee budgeting, forecasting, long-term planning, liquidity forecasting, management reporting, and performance analysis.

• Develop multi-year capital deployment plans while assessing acquisitions, investments, asset sales, and refinancing opportunities.

• Design and assess structured financing transactions, coordinating due diligence with Legal, Tax, Accounting, and external advisors.

• Ensure compliance with significant financing obligations.

• Advise the CFO, CEO, leadership team, and Investment Committee on strategic financial matters.

• Collaborate across departments including Development, Project Finance, Corporate Development, Asset Management, Operations, Legal, Tax, and Accounting.

• Lead, mentor, and grow the FP&A and investments team, establishing roles, processes, documentation standards, quality controls, and scalable finance capabilities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Engineering, or a related field.

• Minimum of 15 years of progressive experience in capital markets, project finance, structured finance, infrastructure investing, investment banking, renewable energy finance, private equity, corporate finance, or a related area.

• Extensive experience in renewable energy, power, infrastructure, or distributed generation is highly desirable.

• Proven track record of raising and structuring capital for solar, community solar, energy storage, independent power, or similar infrastructure assets.

• Direct experience with project debt, corporate debt, tax equity, preferred equity, private credit, joint ventures, growth equity, or structured capital.

• Capacity to assess project and portfolio readiness for financing.

• Advanced skills in underwriting projects and evaluating risk-adjusted returns.

• Expert knowledge of project, portfolio, and enterprise financial models, including sensitivity, scenario, and downside analysis.

• Experience in presenting investment or financing proposals to an Investment Committee, Board, executive team, lenders, or institutional investors.

• Strong grasp of renewable energy tax incentives, project revenue structures, financing documentation, and capital-provider requirements.

• Capability to lead and develop FP&A, investment, financial analysis, or transaction teams.

• An MBA, CFA, CPA, or other relevant advanced degree or credential is preferred.

• Experience in a growth-stage, entrepreneurial, or private-capital-backed business is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity for annual bonuses.

• Flexible remote work arrangement.