Description
Urban Grid, a leading independent power producer, facilitates a rapid and sustainable energy transition by developing high-quality renewable energy projects, fostering community partnerships, and serving as a good land steward. Our company is positioned to own and operate its facilities while cultivating a land management system that benefits farmers, communities, and the natural world through agrivoltaics. Urban Grid maintains a delivery-focused approach with the goal of being a good neighbor, corporate citizen, and trusted energy solutions partner.
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, with teams situated strategically throughout the United States, Urban Grid has a long history of contributing to the clean energy economy. In addition to 940 megawatts currently under construction, we are actively developing a growing portfolio of more than 12,000 megawatts of solar PV and 7,000 megawatts of co-located and stand-alone energy storage. To learn more, please visit www.UrbanGridSolar.com. Urban Grid is a portfolio company of Brookfield. one of the world’s largest owners and operators of renewable power and climate transition assets.
Job Summary
The Financial Analyst will be an integral part of the Finance team and will be responsible for validating, quantifying, and proving project financial models, ensuring we continue to identify and develop competitive projects.
Responsibilities
- Build and optimize financial models for all projects in portfolio.
- Lead project underwriting process and SME review of all inputs related to a project decision.
- Support Commercial team with modeling M&A opportunities.
- Assist in creating SOPs and job aids related to project modeling.
- Create project underwriting presentation materials and present economic results to management.
- Build and optimize financial models for new Renewable technologies and markets.
- Track, update and maintain project-level budgets and reporting.
- Conduct quantitative feasibility analysis on new markets, participants, projects, and trends.
- Conduct risk forecast analysis on existing portfolio and new assets / markets.
- Assist in running corporate financial models, monitor markets, and produce Monthly / Quarterly Reports for existing investment portfolios.
- Collaborate with Finance team on building new Investment Business Cases.
- Support capital markets team in due diligence, deal execution and investment documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or Accounting or related field
- Excellent quantitative analysis skills
- Excellent financial analysis and knowledge of excel
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Be capable of analyzing very large amounts of financial and numerical data and extracting, summarizing and communicating key results
- Work pro-actively individually, and collaboratively within the team
- Be highly organized, follow procedures and meet timelines
- Preference for 1-3 years relevant solar project finance experience
- ·Preference for experience at a utility, fund or investment bank
- This role requires an in-depth understanding of, and experience in:
- Power Markets; structure, participants, support mechanisms, pricing dynamics, power trading
- Power Price Forecasting & Modelling; consultants, forecasts, factors, financial modelling
- Renewables Development Financing; technologies, participants, influencers, revenue streams, financing structures, financing participants
Location: Houston, TX or remote. Preferably within Eastern Time Zone. Position may require periodic trips to Richmond, VA or Houston, TX for team meetings.
Benefits
Urban Grid offers an exciting benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending account, company-paid life insurance and short-term disability, voluntary life, and long-term disability, paid parental leave, and a retirement plan with matching. Full-time position with a competitive compensation package, including bonus.
