Project Finance Senior Analyst
Description
Project Finance Senior Analyst / Renewable Energy
At Catalyze, we’re on a mission to accelerate the nationwide transition to clean, renewable energy. If you are passionate about creating a meaningful impact on one of the greatest challenges of our time, we want you on our team!
We are seeking a Project Finance Sr Analyst to join our small but growing Project Finance team and help analyze and improve our solar and storage projects from origination through construction and into the operational phase.
You Are:
- A professional with the ability to process detailed information effectively and consistently, identify relevant details, and readily recognize contradictions in data
- A self-starter who proactively identifies work to be done, and effectively prioritizes projects and action plans
- An avid learner who absorbs information readily, learns from your mistakes and actively seeks feedback to improve and grow
- A problem solver who looks at a problem from various perspectives, understands its potential causes and asks the right questions of the right stakeholders to solve it
- Focused on error-free, high quality work and take ownership to correct work if needed
- Skilled at defining criteria on which conclusions should be based, understanding the consequences of those conclusions for the department and other stakeholders
You Will Be Responsible For:
- Project Financial Modeling: Analyzing projects in multiple jurisdictions with a range of incentive programs, under both current and future financing strategies;
- Financial Structuring: Developing tailored financing solutions for commercial real estate partners and other counterparties;
- Collaborating across our organization, including with our Origination, Acquisition, Project Development, Engineering and Asset Management teams, and with our external partners;
- Translating new financial models into replicable model structures with our software engineering team.
- Continuously improve upon existing processes and models and perform QA/QC across project financial modeling
- Perform ad-hoc analysis and reporting
- Additional duties as required
What You Bring to Catalyze:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related academic field
- 2+ years of experience in renewable energy (solar preferred) or a related field
- Very strong Excel modeling skills, including building and operating models, with project finance modeling experience strongly preferred
- Experience working on multiple high-value projects while prioritizing effectively, managing competing expectations, and meeting deadlines
- Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, multitasking, and problem resolution
What Catalyze Brings to You:
- Opportunity to play a significant role in transforming the energy industry
- Growth and development
- An extremely flexible environment where your voice, thoughts, and ideas will be heard
- Excellent benefits (company-paid and voluntary): Health / Dental / Vision / Life / AD&D / STD / LTD / AFLAC / Pet / Legal / Commuter / 401(k) with Company Match / Paid Time Off and more!
Preferred Hybrid Location(s):
- Houston, TX
- Purchase, NY
About Catalyze
Catalyze is a renewable energy developer and independent power producer (IPP) that partners with medium-to-large commercial and industrial real estate groups and renewable energy developers. We increase property net income and tenant value with renewable, resilient, smart energy infrastructure including solar, storage, electric vehicle charging, and microgrids.
We uniquely enable our customers to use that increased income as a competitive advantage to expand their property portfolios. Our proprietary origination-to-operations platform supports our partners with optimal site identification and acquisition, energy load estimation, system design, project finance, and asset management.
We believe that when people feel safe and encouraged to bring their authentic selves to the team, it brings out their best and strengthens our company as a whole. This is why we’re dedicated to creating a truly inclusive workplace - one that values and promotes diversity and fosters an empowered workforce - allowing all employees, from any background or level of the company, to succeed in their jobs.
We are committed to equal employment opportunity and value the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, color, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
As required by the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, New York City Salary Transparency Law and California Pay Transparency Law, Catalyze provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in Colorado, New York City or California. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location. For the state of Colorado, New York City, NY and California only, the range of starting pay for this role is $105,000 to $130,000 USD.