Project Finance Valuation Analyst

Senior Project Finance Valuation Analyst

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New Leaf Energy is an experienced clean energy developer that partners with landowners, policymakers, and other stakeholders to accelerate the transition to a world powered by renewable energy. We identify high-value sites, work with landowners and local communities to develop them, and partner with long-term asset owners to bring the most impactful clean energy projects to life.

New Leaf Energy is seeking a Senior Project Finance Valuation Analyst to join our team. This position may be filled out of our Lowell, MA, Boston, MA, or Chicago, IL offices. We value in-person collaboration and offer a hybrid work environment. Hybrid employees work in the office at least two out of every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and are free to work from the office or from home on other days.

The Senior Project Finance Valuation Analyst will contribute to the development of renewable energy projects by creating financial models and other tools that analyze project revenues, project costs, risks, and price curves with the goal of maximizing project valuations. This role uniquely supports all stages of clean energy project development, from assessing new policies and markets, to analyzing project economics, to finalizing transactions with customers.

This is a high profile, cross-functional, interdisciplinary position that regularly interfaces with all aspects of the development business including project development, design engineering, interconnection, policy & business development, project finance, and executive leadership.

• Develop and analyze financial models to evaluate project valuations/profitability, viability of potential new markets, and impacts of changes to existing subsidies and incentives;
• Research wholesale energy and capacity prices, retail rates, and renewable energy credit market fundamentals and forecasts, and translate market data and dynamics into an internal view on price forecasting, valuation impacts, and modeling scenarios;
• Research and interpret third-party energy/wholesale/capacity price forecasts, process them into model templates and sensitivities, develop official company position on price forecasting, and analyze impacts of changes for stakeholders;
• Analyze financial models and customer feedback to understand the impact of key valuation drivers on projects and development regions and how/why valuations change over time, and communicate insights to regional teams and executive leadership;
• Coordinate with policy & business development teams to stay abreast of the latest developments in community solar program design, and translate that knowledge into financial model templates and assumptions;
• Leverage insights into project cash flows and energy/wholesale markets to support strategic project development decision making and maximization of project economics;
• Drive the development and adoption of new tools and techniques which drive efficiency and speed in the development of new projects across the company;
• Engage with customers to educate them on revenue/cost structures, review key valuation assumptions, and negotiate purchase prices;
• Collaborate with design engineering on design optimization, dispatch modeling, and EPC price estimation to maximize project economics;
• Follows, maintains, and continuously improves their own standard work;
• Train and mentor employees across the company on financial modeling, energy market fundamentals, and state/federal incentive structures;
• Perform any other duties as directed by the Chief Revenue Officer and Director of Project Valuation.

• Bachelor s Degree in a technical field;
  Master’s Degree in relevant field or MBA preferred;
• 5 to 8 years experience with the United States energy industry, ideally working in the renewable energy industry;
• Project finance modeling and power markets analysis experience;
• Mastery of Microsoft Excel required; VBA experience preferred;
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced business environment;
• Knowledge of energy or renewable energy development and finance;
• Accurate and detail-oriented;
• Proactive and able to work independently;
• Ability to analyze financial models and understand the impact of various key drivers;
• Technology-oriented;
• Disciplined in adoption and following of standard work as the basis for continuous improvement;
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills.

New Leaf Energy compensates all employees in three ways: market-competitive base salary, plus above-market variable compensation, plus an equity-like program such that all employees experience the benefits of ownership. We use a data-driven and transparent methodology to calibrate compensation that is externally competitive and internally equitable, guided by the New Leaf Energy compensation manual, which is available to all employees.

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