ABOUT AVANTUS

Avantus develops, owns, and operates utility-scale clean energy projects across California and the Desert Southwest. Our development pipeline represents one of the nation's largest portfolios of solar with integrated storage, capable of providing dispatchable power to 17 million Americans, day and night. With over a decade of industry leadership and strategic investment from KKR and EIG, Avantus delivers affordable, reliable clean energy solutions that meet America’s growing energy demand.

ABOUT THE POSITION

We are seeking a highly motivated and organized candidate for the Associate, Project Finance position. The successful candidate will demonstrate sound industry knowledge, superior communications, and detail-oriented organizational skills.

The Associate would support a team of Project Finance professionals who source, negotiate, and execute project sales and structured financings, including whole or partial cash equity sales, construction financing, back leverage debt, and tax equity financing. The position requires an individual who thrives in a fast-paced environment, constantly collaborating with various internal and external teams to meet project and transaction deadlines. The individual would ultimately be responsible for supporting day-to-day execution of these transactions and performing analysis on the market and investors to develop project-specific valuations and economic sensitivities.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Valuation and Modeling:

Able to work independently and collaboratively with a cross-functional team.
Own every aspect of the project financial model for both mid-stage and late-stage development assets, including significant time working on project offtake bidding and structuring.
Monitor the debt, tax equity, and cash equity markets for appropriate valuation techniques and pricing
Prepare and explain capital structure sensitivities, becoming intimately familiar with the potential capital permutations and value levers
Understand the various development, construction, and operational inputs to the model, working closely with cross-functional experts in various functional groups such as Origination, Land Acquisition, Development, Construction, Engineering/Optimization, Storage, Interconnection, etc.

Transaction Support:

Support (and eventually lead) various aspects of a project sale and financing, including but not limited to:
Due Diligence

ABOUT AVANTUS

ABOUT THE POSITION

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Project Valuation and Modeling:

Able to work independently and collaboratively with a cross-functional team.
Own every aspect of the project financial model for both mid-stage and late-stage development assets, including significant time working on project offtake bidding and structuring.
Monitor the debt, tax equity, and cash equity markets for appropriate valuation techniques and pricing
Prepare and explain capital structure sensitivities, becoming intimately familiar with the potential capital permutations and value levers
Understand the various development, construction, and operational inputs to the model, working closely with cross-functional experts in various functional groups such as Origination, Land Acquisition, Development, Construction, Engineering/Optimization, Storage, Interconnection, etc.

Transaction Support:

Support (and eventually lead) various aspects of a project sale and financing, including but not limited to:
Due Diligence

Associate, Project Finance

Associate, Project Finance

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Benefits

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