Associate, Corporate Finance

Inspiration Mobility

• $125K — $195K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years in a highly analytical role, preferably in energy or mobility sectors
  • Strong quantitative and modeling skills with fluency in structured finance
  • Ability to execute complex financial engineering concepts
  • Experience leveraging AI for productivity improvements
  • Exceptional communication skills for diverse audiences
  • Strong problem-solver with attention to detail
  • Knowledge of GAAP principles preferred and strong Excel skills required

Responsibilities

  • Build dynamic financial models for commercial activities and enterprise planning
  • Own and enhance pricing and project finance models
  • Collaborate with credit and capital markets teams for risk evaluation
  • Conduct analysis for transaction structures and credit enhancements
  • Partner with Legal to finalize transaction documentation
  • Draft comprehensive investment memos with rigorous analysis
  • Prepare financial models and presentations for capital raising efforts

Benefits

  • Flexible remote work options with in-office schedule from Dupont Circle
  • Collaborative corporate culture clustered around core values
  • Opportunity to work on high-stakes projects with real-world impact
  • Exposure to cutting-edge financial technologies and frameworks
Full Job Description
Your Mission:

Your mission is to be a core analytical pillar within Inspiration, where you will support financial strategy and execution across strategic corporate initiatives, EV charging and energy infrastructure, vehicle leasing, real estate, and capital formation. Your role will center on architecting sophisticated financial models, evaluating complex transaction structures, preparing thoughtful and clear presentations and analyses for internal and external parties, and supporting the design and improvement of streamlined, scalable processes that directly accelerate our growth.

You will report to: Chief Financial Officer

Key Responsibilities:

  • Build sophisticated dynamic financial models supporting the full spectrum of commercial and corporate activities - including project finance structures, commercial utility rate dynamics, and enterprise forecasting and planning
  • Own the company's core pricing, project development and project finance models, ensuring accuracy and ease-of-use and improving them over time
  • Collaborate with credit/underwriting and capital markets teams to support structuring, financial modeling, and risk evaluation for vehicle leasing, charging infrastructure, and strategic corporate investment opportunities
  • Conduct rigorous analysis to design and recommend creative transaction structures and credit enhancements that align customer needs with internal return, portfolio quality, and risk targets
  • Partner closely with the Legal team to shape, review, and finalize robust transaction documentation
  • Manage the drafting of comprehensive investment memos, synthesizing rigorous due diligence and quantitative risk/return profiles into clear, executive-ready insights
  • Contribute to corporate and asset level capital raising efforts by preparing financial models, investor presentations, Confidential Information Memoranda (CIMs), and other materials for debt and equity financing partners

Who You Are:

  • You have at least 2 years of experience in a highly analytical environment such as investment banking, management consulting, project finance, structured finance, advanced data analysis. Transaction experience in the Energy, Mobility or Specialty Finance sectors preferred
  • You have superb quantitative and modeling skills, including deep fluency in structured finance concepts and math, and sensitivity analyses.
  • You are comfortable developing, explaining, and executing complex financial engineering, structuring, and pricing concepts
  • You have proven ability to leverage AI to improve outputs and boost productivity
  • You have excellent ability to translate complex analysis into compelling, clear written communications-memos, presentations, emails, and investor materials for diverse audiences
  • You are a rigorous problem-solver, communicator, and critical thinker with a proven talent for working on multiple high-stakes projects simultaneously without compromising attention to detail
  • You have working knowledge of GAAP principles and practices is highly desirable
  • You have strong Excel skills are required; we live in the Microsoft environment. Experience with Confluence, Jira, Sigma, or similar BI tools is a bonus
  • Our core values (see below) are part of your inherent DNA, and you have many examples of when you've demonstrated these values in your career


Salary: $125,000 - $195,000 + annual bonus eligible

Location: Washington, D.C. Our in-office team works from our Dupont Circle office Tuesday through Thursday. Remote work on Mondays and Fridays is voluntary, and employees are welcome to work from the office if they'd prefer.

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