Senior Vice President Capital Markets, Investments & Strategy; Renewable Energy and Solar
Listed on 2026-09-24
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Finance & Banking
Corporate Finance, Capital Markets, Risk Manager/Analyst
Senior Vice President Capital Markets, Investments & Strategy (Renewable Energy and Solar)
New York, United States | Posted on 09/22/2026
Job Title: Senior Vice President Capital Markets, Investments & Strategy
Department: Finance
Location: TBD
Salary Range: $240,000 – $260,000 US
Bonus Opportunity: TBD% of annual base salary
Role OverviewThe Senior Vice President, Capital Markets, Investments and Financial Strategy will lead the organization's capital formation, structured finance, investment underwriting, capital allocation, and financial planning activities . Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, this executive will be responsible for developing and executing financing strategies that support continued growth as a developer, owner, and operator of community solar, distributed generation, and energy storage assets .
Key Responsibilities Capital Markets and Capital Formation- Develop and execute the overall capital markets strategy in partnership with the CFO, CEO, and executive leadership team.
- Lead capital-raising activities across project, portfolio, asset, and corporate financing structures.
- Evaluate and execute financing alternatives, including construction debt, term debt/back-leverage, tax equity, tax credit transfers, preferred/growth equity, corporate debt, revolving credit facilities, joint ventures, structured capital, and asset-level refinancings.
- Develop financing strategies that balance cost of capital, liquidity, execution certainty, covenant requirements, risk allocation, and long-term enterprise value.
- Lead negotiations with commercial 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 through term-sheet evaluation, diligence, documentation, closing, and post-closing compliance.
- Maintain strong relationships with existing capital providers while expanding access to new institutional capital sources.
- Monitor capital markets conditions, interest rates, lender requirements, tax equity availability, investor appetite, and renewable energy financing trends.
- Formulate recommendations regarding when to finance, refinance, hold, sell, aggregate, or monetize individual assets and portfolios.
- Establish a disciplined process for prioritizing projects and portfolios for capitalization based on development maturity, interconnection status, permitting, site control, subscriber readiness, offtake arrangements, revenue certainty, and projected returns.
- Partner across Development, Project Finance, Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC), Asset Management, Subscriber Management, Legal, Tax, Accounting, and Operations to assess project readiness and financing risk.
- Create and maintain a prioritized capitalization roadmap for the development pipeline and operating portfolio.
- Recommend optimal timing, structure, and project groupings (individual, aggregated portfolios, warehouse facilities, joint ventures, or corporate capital).
- Assess the benefits and risks of deploying limited capital across community solar, C&I solar, standalone storage, and hybrid solar-plus-storage opportunities.
- Identify capital constraints, portfolio concentration risks, funding gaps, and dependencies affecting construction schedules or commercial operation dates, recommending corrective actions or alternative structures as needed.
- Monitor capitalized projects against underwriting assumptions, financing milestones, budgets, and expected returns.
- Oversee financial underwriting for community solar, distributed generation, energy storage, and related investment opportunities.
- Establish consistent underwriting standards, investment criteria, risk classifications, and minimum return requirements.
- Evaluate project and portfolio economics, including development/construction/operating costs, production assumptions, subscriber acquisition/management costs, PPA terms, community solar credit values, renewable energy incentives, ITCs, tax credit adders, debt sizing, and tax equity economics.
- Assess risks related to development status, interconnection, permitting, supply chain, customer concentration, regulations, and operating performance.
- Maintain underwriting templates, approval thresholds, risk‑assessment methodologies, and investment review procedures.
- Review actual project and portfolio performance…
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