Overview
Senior Director, Project Finance Jobs in Saint Augustine, USA at Vitis Energy, LLC
Description:
This is a unique opportunity to make a direct and meaningful impact on the success of a growing independent power producer. You’ll play a key role in shaping financial insights that guide strategy, investment decisions, and capital planning. You’ll work closely with senior leadership, including our CFO-turned-CEO, to provide analysis that drives outcomes in an agile, entrepreneurial energy company. If you excel at turning complex data into actionable insights, enjoy influencing decision-making, and are eager to contribute fresh perspectives in a fast-moving environment, we’d love to meet you.
This role demands a professional with advanced modeling skills, capable of handling complex financial scenarios and providing in-depth analytical insights to drive the company’s financing strategies.
This role demands a professional with advanced modeling skills, capable of handling complex financial scenarios and providing in-depth analytical insights to drive the company’s financing strategies.
Requirements:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Advanced Financial Modeling:
- Develop and maintain sophisticated financial models to support decision-making in project financing
- Independently run pro-forma models and structuring sensitivities to help make structuring decisions
- Support the maintenance and development of capital modeling capabilities and deliver key model outputs
- Provide short-, medium- and long-term outlooks for energy markets
- Use advanced modeling techniques to analyze and forecast financial performance, assessing a range of financial scenarios and outcomes
Financial Management:
- Spearhead the creation and management of comprehensive financial presentations, ensuring they accurately reflect the financial status and projections.
- Develop and oversee virtual data rooms, streamlining the process of document organization and accessibility.
- Engage in meticulous analysis of financial materials, providing insightful recommendations to optimize financial strategies.
Project Financing:
- Actively support the financing aspects of power generation and transmission projects, encompassing both the developmental and construction phases.
- Coordinate effectively with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate successful project financing.
- Help drive the finance process from gaining internal approval through solicitation, assessment, selection, due diligence, and consummation of transactions.
Debt and Equity Financing:
- Play an integral role in all debt and equity financing activities of the company.
- Assist in the formulation of financing strategies, ensuring alignment with the company’s objectives and market trends.
- Conduct thorough market research and analysis to identify potential financing opportunities and risks.
REQUIREMENTS
Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:
- Requires strong Excel knowledge; heavy financial spreadsheet creation experience.
- Ability to work well in cross-functional teams and with other departments, business units, colleagues, business partners; including but not limited to legal, consulting, banking and investor parties; and be able to convey financial information.
- Demonstrated use of AI/LLMs (e.g., ChatGPT/Copilot) with Excel + Python/VBA to build/maintain project-finance models and reusable templates
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field
- A minimum of 2 years of experience in finance, preferably in the energy sector or a related industry.
- Advanced experience in financial data analysis and reporting
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication, and presentation skills
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Familiarity with debt and equity financing mechanisms
- Tax-Equity experience, and Partnership taxation experience is a must.
- Knowledge of partnership taxation concepts
- High-level analytical and problem-solving skills
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to changing priorities
- Detail-oriented with a strong focus on accuracy
Physical Requirements:
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- Must be able to frequently lift or move items up to 10 pounds.
- Mus…
Title: Senior Director, Project Finance
Company: Vitis Energy, LLC
Location: Saint Augustine, USA
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