Financial Underwriter (Hybrid

Financial Underwriter

Washington, DC-Based | Energy and Infrastructure Finance | 5–10 Years of Experience

Summit Consulting, LLC provides quantitative and qualitative solutions to help federal agencies and mission-driven organizations address complex challenges in financial management, risk management, program delivery, and analysis. Our practitioners combine technical rigor with practical implementation experience, working collaboratively with clients to support sound decisions, strengthen program operations, and improve outcomes for the communities they serve.

Summit is seeking an experienced Financial Underwriter with 5 to 10 years of experience to support federal energy and infrastructure finance work. This position is based in Washington, DC. The selected applicant will contribute to financing, underwriting, and analytical activities involving energy, utility, and infrastructure assets that support economic opportunity, system reliability, affordability, resiliency, and long‑term community benefit.

This role is focused on the asset types and financial characteristics associated with energy and utility infrastructure, including renewable generation assets, battery energy storage systems, electric distribution and transmission assets, grid modernization investments, rural and community‑serving utility systems, and related infrastructure assets. The work requires the ability to evaluate asset‑level financial performance, borrower or sponsor capacity, cost reasonableness, operating assumptions, repayment capacity, and the strength of supporting documentation.

The strongest candidates will bring advanced financial judgment, mature underwriting discipline, strong technical writing skills, and the ability to evaluate complex asset and borrower information in a clear, well‑documented, and defensible manner. Candidates should be comfortable assessing both quantitative financial indicators and qualitative considerations, including sponsor capacity, implementation risk, documentation quality, operating risk, reasonableness of assumptions, and alignment with stated financing objectives.

• Lead or independently perform financial due diligence for energy, utility, and infrastructure assets, including renewable generation, battery energy storage, electric distribution and transmission systems, grid modernization assets, and related community‑serving infrastructure.
• Review and interpret financial statements, operating statements, budgets, sources and uses of funds, debt schedules, capital expenditure plans, asset‑level cost documentation, and other materials to assess applicant, borrower, or sponsor capacity.
• Evaluate the financial reasonableness of asset investments, including capital costs, financing structures, projected revenues, operating expenses, repayment capacity, reserve assumptions, useful life considerations, and long‑term sustainability.
• Analyze borrower creditworthiness, liquidity, leverage, operating performance, cash flow, and ability to meet proposed financing obligations, including the ability to identify and explain material credit risks.
• Review loan, grant, credit, or financial assistance application materials for completeness, consistency, documentation quality, and alignment with applicable financing requirements.
• Identify documentation gaps, financial inconsistencies, unsupported assumptions, asset‑level risks, borrower risks, and follow‑up questions needed to support a complete underwriting review, and recommend practical paths for resolution.
• Assess complex financial and operational risks, including sponsor capacity, asset feasibility, construction or implementation considerations, operating assumptions, cost escalation risk, repayment risk, and adequacy of supporting documentation.
• Prepare client‑ready underwriting narratives, financial summaries, risk assessments, issue papers, recommendation memoranda, and decision‑support materials for both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Review the work of junior analysts or underwriters for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and clarity, and provide constructive feedback that improves the quality of…