Summary:The Project Finance Analyst will support a team of finance professionals who underwrite, model, negotiate and structure equipment service agreements and financings, including debt, lease, and tax credit financings. The position requires a proactive individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment, constantly collaborating with various internal and external teams to meet transaction deadlines. The individual would ultimately be responsible for managing day-to-day execution of these transactions and performing project-specific related analysis to optimize asset pricing.
Essential Function: Project Modeling/ Underwriting- Own every aspect of the project financial model, including becoming intimately familiar with the underwriting, potential capital permutations and value levers
- Analyze financial results and communicate performance and pricing impacts internally, sharing recommendations for project return improvements
- Manage various tracker and tool updates and dissemination, as needed
Essential Function: Transaction Support- Support (and eventually lead) various aspects of a project financing or tax credit transfer, including but not limited to: Modeling; Due Diligence; Dataroom Management; Term Sheet and Transaction Document Support; Third Party (Independent Engineer and Appraisal) Reports; Project Closing activities
- Support deal lead on marketing of Highland's project portfolio and capital structure to financiers
- Support transaction team in various approval stage-gate and committee review processes
Essential Function: Cross-Functional Support and Collaboration- Collaborate with Origination, providing transactional support throughout the deal cycle
- Work closely with Origination, Market Development and Fleet Operations teams to understand, monitor, and improve the various construction, operational, and federal/state grant inputs to the model
- Prepare financial analyses to inform decision-making for Origination and Fleet Operations
- Support legal structuring and bankability of agreements
Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree
- Minimum 2 years in Infrastructure, Transportation, or Renewables/Power, finance, or capital markets
- Expert proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Microsoft Excel, including experience with financial modeling
- Proficiency with AI productively tools, such as Claude, to support workflows and drive efficiency
- Work and prior transactional experience in project finance, asset-backed finance, M&A, investment banking, municipal finance, project underwriting, real estate, energy, insurance, private equity or venture capital
- Understanding of return metrics, including NPV, IRR, MOIC
- Basic knowledge of accounting and financial statements
- Excellent quantitative and analytical skills
- Ability to present complex information succinctly and efficiently to audiences internal and external
- High attention to detail
- Strong problem-solving and organizational skills
- Experience managing projects with multiple stakeholders on tight timelines
$90,000 - $100,000 a year
What You Can Expect from Highland:- Competitive base salary and performance-based bonus program
- A supportive, highly collaborative, team-oriented environment
- Ability to work with bright, innovative, and forward-thinking colleagues
- Health, Vision, and Dental coverage for employees & their dependents
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401(k) program and company match
