Project Finance

As Scout’s Senior Associate, Project Finance, you will leverage your experience in financial analysis of renewable energy and/or power sector projects to inform strategic decisions for Scout’s business. You will provide key support for project finance, corporate finance, capital recycling transactions and PPA negotiations. Beyond financial modeling and analysis, your work will include a combination of engagement with capital providers (debt, tax equity, and equity) and internal Scout stakeholders, as well as day-to-day management of projects and transactions. You will represent Scout with authentic professionalism to all of our business partners, counterparties, and stakeholders.

You will be responsible for project-based financial modeling and preparing documentation, reporting and analysis to assist investment decisions. Your work will impact many functions across Scout, including:

• Development: You will provide insight to the Development team about inputs that drive their projects’ financial performance so that they can adapt their development plans accordingly.
• Origination: Your analysis will inform pricing strategies developed by the Origination team to ensure that long-term project revenue streams will contribute to target rates of return and integrate needed risk management strategies.
• Project Finance & Capital Markets: You will provide support to project and corporate capital raising transactions. Beyond your financial analysis, you will serve as an important point of interface with counterparties, both internal and external, to drive preparation of key deal documents, and coordinate responses to diligence requests.
• Corporate Finance: While the bulk of your work will focus on project-level finance, you may also inform and assist with corporate-level financial modeling and transactions from time to time. This will include integrating the results of the project models, conducting specific analysis, preparing reports for investors, and preparing board papers.

We will rely on you to develop systems and tools to drive efficiency in our work. To do so, we expect that you will integrate the expertise you have developed in previous roles while continuing to advance your knowledge of our industry and innovation in renewable energy project finance.

Key duties in your role will include the following:

• Develop and maintain fully structured (tax equity, debt, and cash equity) financial models with recent project and corporate assumptions.
• Advance projects across the investment lifecycle – from financing origination to execution and ad hoc support during commercial operations.
• Coordinate with several departments internally to maintain financial models, prepare financing data rooms, and develop key transaction documents.