Financial Analyst - Project Finance

Responsibilities

• Build and own project-level financial models for Giga's infrastructure deployments including AI data center sites, powered land transactions, and OEM projects.
• Model debt and equity capital structures, cash flow waterfalls, IRR and return on investment analyses, and sensitivity scenarios for individual projects.
• Support project-level underwriting and investment committee presentations for new development opportunities.
• Maintain and update financial models and budgets as projects progress from development through construction, service, and operations.
• Analyze capital equipment BOMs for financial model inputs and integrity.
• Support structuring and execution of project finance transactions including construction loans, term loans, tax equity, and other project-level capital structures.
• Aid in preparation of lender and investor materials including information memoranda, financial projections, and due diligence packages.
• Coordinate with legal, engineering, and operations teams to ensure financial models reflect project-level assumptions accurately.
• Track debt covenants, reporting requirements, and ongoing lender relationships across the project portfolio.
• Develop and maintain project budgets and portfolio dashboards tracking financial performance, construction milestones, and capital deployment against plan.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly project-level financial reports for internal leadership and external capital partners.
• Identify and quantify project-level risks including cost overruns, schedule delays, offtake risk, and supply chain exposure.
• Support development of standard financial models and templates that can be replicated across new project types as Giga scales.
• Partner closely with the development, engineering, legal, and operations teams to translate project plans into accurate financial models.
• Contribute to development of Giga's project finance playbook and standard deal structures.

Requirements

• 3-6 years of experience in project finance, infrastructure finance (data centers/ hyperscalers), energy finance, investment banking (power/utilities/infrastructure coverage), or a high-growth corporate finance function with project-level modeling exposure.
• Strong project-level financial modeling skills including debt sizing, cash flow waterfall modeling, IRR analysis, and sensitivity scenarios.
• Understanding of project finance structures including construction financing, term loans, tax equity, DSCR covenants, and equity return frameworks.
• Ability to read and interpret project documents including EPC contracts, offtake agreements, interconnection agreements, and land leases to extract financial assumptions.
• Proficiency in Excel/Google Sheets; ability to build and own complex project models independently.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills — you can explain deal economics to non-finance stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field.
• Bonus points: Experience in energy, data centers, power generation, or infrastructure project finance specifically, Exposure to tax equity structures including HLBV, ITC/PTC transactions, or partnership flip models, Familiarity with DSCR modeling, reserve accounts, and lender due diligence processes, Experience supporting a company through a project financing close or capital raise as an internal team member, MBA or CFA designation, Proficiency with BI or financial planning tools such as Tableau, Mosaic, or Anaplan.