Portfolio Manager

NineDot Energy

$150K — $170K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in project finance, asset management, or portfolio management in energy/infrastructure sectors
  • Hands-on experience with tax equity structures and construction financing
  • Proven track record managing compliance and reporting for complex financing agreements
  • Understanding of insurance requirements for energy/infrastructure projects
  • Highly organized with strong attention to detail
  • Excellent communication skills for stakeholder coordination
  • Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills preferred

Responsibilities

  • Lead compliance with credit facilities and tax equity agreements
  • Prepare and deliver periodic financial and compliance reports
  • Track key funding dates and obligations across agreements
  • Manage draw requests and lender coordination for construction financing
  • Oversee insurance programs and ensure compliance with project contracts
  • Serve as primary liaison with insurance broker and stakeholders
  • Support audits and information requests from financing counterparts

Benefits

  • Medical, dental and vision coverage
  • 5% employer match on 401k retirement account
  • 20 paid vacation days, 7 sick days, 9 federal holidays, and 3 personal floating holidays
  • 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for all caregivers
  • $1,000 stipend for wellness initiatives
  • 16 volunteer hours plus 2 planned company-wide volunteer events per year
Full Job Description
FLSA Classification: Exempt

Salary Range: $150,000 - $170,000 plus bonus and incentive stock options

Reports to: VP, Capital Markets

Location: Brooklyn, NY (Hybrid)

Job Summary

The Portfolio Manager will play a critical role within the Capital Markets team, overseeing ongoing compliance, reporting, and operational obligations across the Company's portfolio of financed projects. This individual will act as a central point of ownership and coordination between internal teams (finance, development, construction, operations, legal) and external stakeholders (lenders, tax equity investors, insurers, and advisors) to ensure all financing and project-level requirements are met.

This role is ideal for a detail-oriented finance professional who thrives at the intersection of capital markets, operations, and compliance in a fast-growing infrastructure platform.

Responsibilities:

Financing Compliance & Reporting
  • Lead compliance with all covenants, reporting obligations, and deliverables under corporate credit facilities, project-level debt, and tax equity agreements
  • Own the preparation and timely delivery of periodic reports (monthly, quarterly, annual), including financial statements, operating reports, compliance certificates, and investor updates
  • Track key dates, milestones, and obligations across all financing agreements
  • Partner with NineDot colleagues to gather required inputs from finance, development, construction, operations, and legal teams

Construction Financing & Capital Deployment
  • Manage and execute draw requests under construction loan facilities, including lender coordination and documentation review
  • Oversee the process of adding new distributed energy projects into existing financing structures (construction debt and tax equity), including satisfaction of conditions precedent
  • Coordinate with internal company stakeholders to ensure readiness for funding milestones
  • Maintain detailed draw schedules and funding trackers

Insurance Management & Compliance
  • Oversee the Company's insurance program across the project portfolio and corporate level (property, liability, builder's risk, etc.)
  • Ensure all insurance policies meet requirements under financing agreements and project contracts
  • Track renewals, certificates, and compliance deliverables
  • Identify coverage gaps and coordinate mitigation strategies

Broker & Stakeholder Management
  • Serve as the primary internal point of contact and liaison with the Company's insurance broker
  • Coordinate with lenders, tax equity investors, and third-party advisors on compliance, reporting, and operational matters
  • Support diligence requests, audits, and ad hoc information needs from financing counterparties

Other duties as assigned

Core Competencies:
  • Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
  • Drives Results - Constantly achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
  • Interpersonal Savvy - Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
  • Manages Ambiguity - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.
  • Nimble Learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both success and failures as learning fodder
  • Plans and Aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
  • Tech Savvy - Anticipating and adopting innovations in business-building digital and technology applications.

Required education and experience:
  • 5+ years of experience in project finance, asset management, or portfolio management within energy, infrastructure, or IPP platforms
  • Strong hands on experience with tax equity structures, construction financing, and project-level debt
  • Experience managing compliance and reporting under complex financing agreements
  • Understanding of insurance requirements for energy or infrastructure projects
  • Highly organized with strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple deadlines
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to coordinate across internal and external stakeholders
  • Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills preferred

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

NineDot Employee benefits include but are not limited to:
  • Medical, dental and vision coverage
  • 5% employer match on your 401k retirement account
  • 20 paid vacation days off, plus 7 sick days, 9 federal holidays and 3 personal floating holidays
  • 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave for both the primary and secondary caregiver within the first year of birth or adoption
  • Wellness initiatives including a $1,000 stipend
  • 16 volunteer hours plus two planned company-wide volunteer outings per year

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