About the Role
This role is responsible for leading fundraising campaigns, managing financial institution relationships, and overseeing all Project Finance and M&A transactions in North America. The position involves evaluating financing structures, negotiating transactions, and guiding a team to achieve economic and timing goals.
Responsibilities
- Organize and lead a fundraising campaign utilizing banking relationships to raise $2–3B of tax equity and debt over the next three years.
- Manage and grow relationships with new and existing financial institution partners.
- Collaborate with the CFO and Senior Managing Director of Finance to structure and close corporate facilities supporting global financing needs.
- Provide oversight and assume overall responsibility for all Project Finance and M&A transactions in North America.
- Evaluate tax equity and project financing structures to achieve economic and timing goals.
- Lead relationships with investors and advisors for structuring, negotiating, and closing project sale transactions.
- Guide financial advisors through structuring, negotiating, and closing structured project finance transactions.
- Train and develop the Project Finance and M&A team.
- Oversee the divestiture of NTP and Pre-NTP renewable projects.
- Collaborate with the Business Analytics team to refine development models for anticipated financial structures and tax jurisdictions.
- Provide the Business Development team with early-stage evaluations of financing structures and participate in transaction Risk Review.
- Collaborate with the Origination & Structuring team on energy off-take strategies, return metrics, and credit reviews.
- Collaborate with Legal on structuring Project Finance and M&A transactions.
- Evaluate transactions for Investment Committee review.
- Partner with Corporate Finance to evaluate accounting, tax, and cash attributes of proposed transactions.
- Represent Project Finance and M&A on internal and external cross-functional teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Advanced degree preferred.
- 18+ years of energy-related transactional finance experience with a strong focus on project finance, structured finance, and tax equity.
- Established relationships within the energy and infrastructure financing sector.
- Experience working in a project development environment.
Skills
- Excellent problem-solving and strategic thinking skills
- Creative, forward-thinking solutions
- Deep expertise in tax equity and project financing structures for renewable energy projects
- Ability to implement complex financial transactions while balancing tax, accounting, legal, and commercial considerations
- Strong team leadership and process management skills
- Proven ability to mentor colleagues
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong quantitative aptitude
- Exceptional attention to detail
- Ability to distill complex issues into clear, actionable recommendations
- Highly resourceful
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, transaction-driven environment
- Strong sense of ownership
- Accountability
Experience Level
- 18+ years of energy-related transactional finance experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Advanced degree preferred
