Financial Planning Analyst

Key Responsibilities
1. Asset Financial Management

• Own the financial performance of the assigned renewable energy portfolio.
• Prepare and monitor asset-level P&L statements
  , budgets, forecasts, cash-flow statements, and variance analysis.
• Track revenue, operating expenses, CAPEX, working capital, debt service, taxes, insurance, and other financial obligations.
• Analyze actual performance against budget, business plan, PPA assumptions, and financial model.
• Identify opportunities to improve asset profitability and cash generation.
• Develop monthly, quarterly, and annual financial performance reports for management and investors.

• Manage financial obligations associated with project debt, including:
  • Principal repayments
  • Interest payments
  • Debt service schedules
  • DSCR monitoring
  • Reserve accounts
  • Financial covenants
  • Lender reporting
• Review financing agreements and monitor compliance with debt covenants.
• Coordinate with banks, lenders, financial institutions, and investors.
• Monitor refinancing opportunities and evaluate refinancing impacts on project returns.
• Identify potential covenant breaches and develop mitigation plans.
• Maintain accurate debt schedules and financial models.

• Monitor plant generation and revenue against the approved business plan and PPA assumptions.
• Analyze the financial impact of:
  • Generation underperformance
  • Plant availability
  • Curtailment
  • Degradation
  • Grid outages
  • PPA performance
  • REC revenue
  • Energy pricing
  • O&M costs
• Work closely with technical/O&M teams to quantify the financial impact of operational issues.
• Develop revenue-loss and underperformance calculations.
• Support recovery of damages, insurance claims, liquidated damages, and contractual compensation.

• Prepare and maintain project-level and portfolio-level Profit & Loss statements
  .
• Monitor:
  • Revenue
  • EBITDA
  • Operating expenses
  • Financing costs
  • Depreciation
  • Taxes
  • Net income
  • Free cash flow
• Perform monthly financial close and variance analysis.
• Explain material deviations from budget and forecast.
• Develop corrective action plans for underperforming assets.

The candidate must be highly proficient in renewable-energy financial modeling and investment analysis.

Responsibilities include:

• Develop and maintain project financial models.
• Calculate and analyze:
  • IRR
  • Project IRR
  • Equity IRR
  • NPV
  • NPFA / Net Present Financial Analysis
    , where applicable
  • Payback period
  • DSCR
  • EBITDA
  • Cash-on-cash return
  • Debt/equity ratios
• Perform IRR sensitivity analysis for changes in:
  • Generation
  • PPA price
  • Energy price
  • O&M costs
  • CAPEX
  • Interest rates
  • Debt tenor
  • Inflation
  • Degradation
  • Tax assumptions
• Develop downside, base-case, and upside scenarios.

• Conduct financial stress tests for renewable energy projects.
• Develop scenarios such as:
  • 520% generation reduction
  • PPA revenue reduction
  • Increased O&M costs
  • Major equipment failure
  • Extended outage
  • Interest-rate increase
  • Debt refinancing risk
  • Delayed payments
  • Insurance claim delays
  • Major CAPEX requirements
• Assess the impact of stress scenarios on:
  • IRR
  • NPV
  • Cash flow
  • DSCR
  • Debt repayment
  • Equity returns
  • Project profitability
• Present recommended mitigation strategies to senior management.

• Review and monitor financial and commercial obligations under:
  • PPAs
  • EPC contracts
  • O&M agreements
  • Loan agreements
  • Lease agreements
  • Interconnection agreements
  • Asset management agreements
  • Insurance policies
• Identify potential contractual liabilities and financial exposure.
• Maintain a Contractual Liability & Obligation Register
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• Track:
  • Liquidated damages
  • Performance guarantees
  • Warranties
  • Indemnification obligations
  • Insurance requirements
  • Payment obligations
  • Default provisions
  • Termination provisions
• Coordinate with legal counsel on disputes, claims, notices, settlements, and contractual enforcement.
• Quantify financial exposure arising from legal and contractual disputes.

• Establish and maintain strong financial governance across the renewable energy portfolio.
• Ensure compliance with:
  • Financing agreements
  • PPA requirements
  • Corporate policies
  • Internal controls
  • Regulatory requirements
  • Investor requirements
• Develop approval matrices and financial controls.
• Ensure proper documentation and audit trails for major financial decisions.
• Support internal, external, lender, investor, and statutory audits.
• Maintain asset-level governance calendars and compliance trackers.

• Monitor customer/PPA receivables and payment collections.
• Track overdue…