Project Finance Manager

Location

Oregon State | United States

Job description

We are designing the Grid of the future. Join Us in Making the Change!

Electric Power Engineers, LLC (EPE) collaborates with global power and energy clients to navigate complex engineering, grid modeling, and project development hurdles. For over 50 years, EPE has built enduring partnerships with power and energy clients globally. Our commitment to addressing complex engineering, grid modeling, and project development challenges has solidified our reputation in the industry. Our expansive footprint, with locations in Texas, Illinois, Canada, Panama, and Lebanon, allows us to serve a diverse international clientele. Our executive leadership, with a combined experience exceeding 250 years, has been instrumental in the successful execution of numerous generation, transmission, distribution, and energy storage projects.

At EPE, we cater to a vast spectrum of clients, ranging from investor-owned utilities (IOUs) to municipal-owned utilities (MOUs), cooperative utilities, independent system operators (ISOs), project developers, and independent power producers. We pride ourselves on offering a suite of solutions including generation interconnection, reliability planning, long-term strategy development, economic planning, and load interconnection. Our team, composed of dedicated and detail-driven consultants, is passionate about aiding our clients, ensuring they always get the best of our expertise.

Having ventured into the renewables industry at its nascent stages, we have witnessed and contributed to its fast rise. Today, we stand as a dominant figure in power engineering consulting. Our vision is bold: to triple our growth over the next five years while enhancing the quality and range of our services. We are at the vanguard of innovations, striving to shape the "grid of the future" and propel the electric power and energy industry into a new era.

Position Overview:

The role of the Project Finance Manager is pivotal to our growth strategy. We seek a dynamic individual who can establish and spearhead our project finance and bankability assessment services. This role will involve crafting a robust reporting framework that thoroughly assesses the economic, technical, regulatory, and contractual viability of various energy infrastructure projects. Through this role, you will have the responsibility of producing bankability reports that demonstrate project merits and serve to captivate the interest of banks, financial institutions, and investors. In this role you will be the primary liaison with clients, organizing discussions that gauge needs, advising on strategic paths, and highlighting project value propositions. Furthermore, you will play a matchmaker by introducing clients to the right financial service contacts and assisting in the bankability report presentations.

Your engagement will span beyond report creation. As the primary interface with clients, you will orchestrate and lead discussions to identify their specific needs, advise on potential strategic pathways, and underline the unique value propositions of their projects. An essential facet of your role will be to connect clients with appropriate financial service contacts and provide steadfast support during bankability report presentations.

Furthermore, you will play a pivotal role in cultivating and deepening relationships with both new and existing clients, investment firms, and financial service providers. While a degree of autonomy is expected, collaboration with our leadership team to understand and advocate for our services and innovations is integral to the role. We envision our Project Finance Manager as someone who is innovative, possesses a strategic mindset, and harbors a deep passion for fostering project development through the prism of financial services.

Join us in leading the  change!

Here's what you'll be responsible for:

• Working synergistically across various functional units to ensure a holistic and independent review of energy infrastructure projects.
• Leveraging a plethora of data sources to craft compelling technical content, predictive market analytics, financial simulations, and scenario evaluations—all aimed at underscoring project viability.
• Crafting a comprehensive project risk landscape, identifying potential pitfalls and formulating strategic mitigation measures across real estate, permitting, supply chain dynamics, interconnections, finance, and execution phases.
• Extending advisory expertise, encompassing areas like financing modalities, energy market trends, regulatory nuances, contractual considerations, and risk mitigation—all geared towards optimizing a project's financing potential.
• Spearheading the creation and editing of bankability study reports and related communication materials to ensure utmost clarity, precision, and impact.
• Acting as a bridge, fostering robust relationships between investors and project capital stakeholders, thereby championing the project's merits, and simplifying the financing journey.
• Nurturing ties with key financial sector representatives and other stakeholders crucial for the successful realization of bankability reports.
• Championing business outreach initiatives, effectively showcasing the full spectrum of EPE's solutions and services to prospective clients.
• Participating in shaping and deploying business strategies within the consultancy domain, ensuring alignment with market realities and organizational objectives.
• Driving the refining and evolving financial models to ensure they remain current, accurate, and reflective of market conditions.
• Maintaining a proactive stance, keeping abreast of regulatory amendments and emerging energy market trends. This vigilance ensures our advisory services remain top-tier and relevant.
• Refining proposal structures, bankability materials, and client-centric presentations, ensuring they are attuned to client needs and industry standards.
• Overseeing and enrich a comprehensive document library that serves as a reservoir of supporting content across technical, financial, regulatory, and policy domains.
• Cultivating a culture where knowledge sharing is celebrated, ensuring the continuous nurturing of relevant capabilities, and fostering a collaborative spirit.
• Being the face of EPE during in-person meetings, and actively participate in industry events, conferences, and committees—all aimed at forging key relationships that drive our mission forward.
• Adhering to stipulated project timelines and budgetary considerations, while effectively managing the range of responsibilities and tasks.

Bring your passion, here's what’s needed:

• Mastery over financial modeling, particularly in the context of energy sector projects. Able to discern and incorporate project-specific nuances and risk elements.
• Demonstrated aptitude in forging and nurturing strategic relationships across a gamut of stakeholders—clients, financial institutions, regulators, and more.
• Ability to intuit client needs, offer value-driven solutions, and ensure consistent client satisfaction and retention.
• Employ critical thinking and innovative approaches to distill complex data into actionable insights.
• Adept at independently spearheading client interactions, ensuring communication is clear, precise, and value driven.
• Effective multitasking and prioritization abilities, ensuring tasks are aligned with broader organizational objectives.
• Demonstrated ability to operate efficiently in ambiguous or rapidly changing environments.
• A proactive collaborator who recognizes the value of team-driven outcomes and fosters a spirit of cooperative engagement.
• Proficiency in both business and technical writing, ensuring content clarity and resonance.
• Ability to independently drive tasks to completion, ensuring quality outcomes.
• Expertise in managing client relationships, expectations, and ensuring consistent delivery of value.
• Effective allocation of time across various tasks, ensuring timely outcomes without compromising on quality.

How we support you:

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits including medical, dental, and vision with 100% premium coverage for you.
• Generous PTO and paid holidays
• Continuous Education Benefits
• Work with industry leaders
• 401K, up to a 4% match (100% vested from day 1)
• Flexible Work including hybrid and remote possibilities base on position.

Location : This position will be located in City, State

Travel : Occasional travel may be needed (10% or less )

EPE is an equal opportunity/AA/Disability/Veteran employer. The EEO is the Law poster, and its supplement are available using the following links:  EEOC is the Law Poster

If you are interested in applying for employment with EPE and need special assistance to apply for a posted position, please send an email to:  [email protected]

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EPE does not accept unsolicited resumes from  third-party recruiters . Any unsolicited third-party resumes forwarded by recruiters to EPE via our career page or to any of our managers or employees will be considered public information, may be treated as a direct application from the person identified in the resume, and will not be eligible for placement fee payment to the agency. EPE will not pay a fee to a third-party recruiter or agency   without a previously signed third-party agreement and has not coordinated their recruiting activity with the appropriate member of the Talent Acquisition team. 

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