Finance Senior Associate

Grid United

$90K — $120K *
Energy & Utilities
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field
  • 3-5+ years of relevant experience in finance or energy markets
  • Strong project finance modeling skills
  • Exceptional quantitative and analytical abilities
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills

Responsibilities

  • Create and maintain project financial models and valuations
  • Build and update corporate financial models for projections
  • Collaborate with teams for project-level budgeting
  • Manage consolidated budgeting projections for strategic planning
  • Conduct due diligence, market analyses, and valuation for acquisitions
  • Support commercial contract negotiations
  • Prepare investment presentations and memos for new opportunities
  • Monitor market trends and regulatory developments

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including health insurance
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Support for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
  • Empowerment in significant projects impacting the energy sector
  • Access to experienced industry leaders and a collaborative team environment
Full Job Description
The Position

Grid United has numerous large-scale transmission projects underway, and this is an exciting opportunity to help commercialize and finance our projects. We are seeking a Finance Senior Associate with experience in project finance modeling, financial analysis, and commercial structuring for large-scale energy infrastructure projects. This role is focused primarily on analyzing and financing Grid United's transmission development portfolio, including project-level economics, valuation, and capital strategy. Reporting to the Vice President of Finance, this position is located in Houston, TX.

Please apply if you possess 70% or more of the required skills described below.

Key Responsibilities & Outcomes:
  • Create and maintain project financial models, including calculating project valuations and returns, pricing a variety of revenue structures, and associated sensitivity analyses
  • Build and update the corporate financial model including projections and modeling various financing and commercial arrangements
  • Provide input and work with cross-functional teams to compile project-level budgeting
  • Develop and manage consolidated budgeting projections on a corporate level to support strategic capital planning
  • Conduct deep due diligence for potential acquisitions, including thorough market analyses, transaction structuring, and valuation analyses
  • Provide financial support to commercial contract negotiations
  • Prepare investment presentations and memos regarding new investment opportunities with the opportunity to participate in management discussions around potential investments and strategic imperatives
  • Monitor and analyze market trends, regulatory developments, and industry dynamics to identify potential opportunities and risks
  • Collaborate with internal and external cross-functional team members (e.g. project developers, market and commercial analytics, land, engineering, environmental, interconnection, accounting, legal, etc.)

Behaviors - which are essential to success of this team
  • Be exemplars of the Grid United values of humility, tenacity, ingenuity and grace
  • Build, maintain, and value broad and deep stakeholder relationships and have a personal commitment to making a difference in the community
  • Proactively work with stakeholders to solve problems in a calm and no blame way

Desired Experience and Skills:
  • Bachelor's degree in Finance or related degree
  • 3-5+ years of experience with a minimum 3+ years prior work experience in a related financial, energy, investment banking and/or private investment role or relevant experience across power and utilities investment banking or infrastructure private equity, with strong project finance modeling skills
  • Very strong quantitative skills and deep modeling experience
  • A passion for collaborative, team-based work with a hands-on entrepreneurial approach to investing and business growth
  • Strong ambition to learn the cutting edge of the power industry and transmission development
  • Excitement to understand, model, and evaluate a variety of commercial and financial structures, including novel structures to enable the company's innovative transmission projects
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships and work with professionals around the organization
  • Exceptional organizational skills, including the ability to multi-task efficiently with constant regard for accuracy and attention to detail
  • Detail-oriented work style with an ability to work in a high-pressure environment without sacrificing quality
  • Strong work ethic, persistence, and an ability to quickly grasp and understand new concepts including financial and legal structures
  • Excellent written and oral communication abilities
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite of products (Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Positive, professional, and energetic team-oriented attitude


What the Right Candidate Will Love about this Opportunity:
  • An organization dedicated to solving the ever-changing Rubik's cube of high voltage transmission development in a fast paced, dynamic and innovative culture
  • Working with a core group of dedicated and thoughtful colleagues
  • Working on a day-to-day basis with highly experienced and proven industry leaders
  • Being empowered to play a leading role in delivering a large-scale project that will materially change the energy future of America
  • Working in an organization committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion and having a positive social impact
  • Excellent financial backing from leading energy investor with long-term commitment, passion for energy, and an understanding and appetite to tackle the challenges of transmission development


Grid United offers a comprehensive benefits package, which includes a competitive base salary and bonus incentive plan, long term incentive plan, health benefits, 401(k), and more.

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