Project Finance Analyst

<h2>Salary: $1,800–$2,300 USD</h2><h3>Key Responsibilities</h3><h3>Sales Operations &amp; Project Modeling (Front End)</h3><ul>
<li>Build, update, and maintain project-level financial models in Excel for prospective and active development opportunities.</li>
<li>Run return simulations and sensitivity analyses (IRR, NPV, DSCR, payback) across varying assumptions for pricing, incentives, financing, and production.</li>
<li>Support the sales and origination process with pro formas, pricing scenarios, and deal summaries for internal review and client-facing materials.</li>
<li>Own deal file management—organize, name, version, and maintain project documentation, contracts, and supporting data in a consistent, auditable structure.</li>
<li>Prepare inputs and materials for investment and partner decision meetings.</li>
</ul><h3>Operational Asset Management (Back End)</h3><ul>
<li>Oversee a portfolio of operating assets, tracking production, availability, and financial performance against underwritten assumptions.</li>
<li>Produce recurring operational and financial reporting (monthly/quarterly) for internal stakeholders, partners, and investors.</li>
<li>Maintain support criteria—compliance checklists, warranty and O&amp;M documentation, reporting calendars, and key performance thresholds.</li>
<li>Flag performance variances and support root-cause analysis and corrective actions with the operations team.</li>
<li>Feed real operating results back into the modeling assumptions used for future deals.</li>
</ul><h3>Cross-Functional &amp; Support</h3><ul>
<li>Serve as a data and reporting resource across the project lifecycle, ensuring consistency between underwritten and actual figures.</li>
<li>Continuously improve model templates, file structures, and reporting workflows.</li>
<li>Support ad hoc analysis requests from the Managing Partner and deal team.</li>
</ul><h2>Requirements</h2><h3>Required Qualifications</h3><ul>
<li>2–5 years of experience in financial analysis, project finance, sales operations, or asset management—ideally in energy, infrastructure, or real estate.</li>
<li>Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills (this is the core competency of the role): comfortable building models from scratch, structuring cash flows, and running scenario/sensitivity analyses.</li>
<li>Strong command of financial metrics: IRR, NPV, DSCR, cash-on-cash, and payback.</li>
<li>Meticulous file and data management habits; disciplined with version control and documentation.</li>
<li>Exposure to clean energy, renewables, or power project development.</li>
<li>Familiarity with tax incentives, PPAs, and project financing structures.</li>
<li>Excellent written and verbal English communication for remote collaboration with a U.S.-based team.</li>
<li>Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, economics, engineering, or a related field.</li>
<li>Reliable home-office setup and willingness to overlap with U.S. business hours.</li>
</ul><h3>Preferred Qualifications</h3><ul>
<li>Experience preparing investor- or partner-facing reporting packages.</li>
<li>Comfort with data/BI tools (Power BI, Google Sheets) and CRM or project-tracking systems.</li>
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