Project Finance Analyst

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain structured finance models for Valar's commercial projects.
• Support earned value management analysis, including cost performance, schedule performance, estimate-to-complete, estimate-at-completion, and variance analysis.
• Reconcile actual project costs against approved estimate baselines in coordination with cost estimating and finance teams.
• Produce monthly project cost reports, including variance commentary, key drivers, risks, and recommended actions.
• Develop and maintain capital plan inputs across development, construction, and commercial operation timelines.
• Support quarterly capital forecasts and cash-flow updates that feed into the company's broader financial plan.
• Create financial models for capital cost sensitivity, financing structure, customer offtake economics, and project returns.
• Prepare financial packages for internal stage-gate reviews, board updates, investor discussions, lender reviews, and other external readouts.
• Support financial sections of regulatory filings, DOE program submittals, and other project-related submissions where capital cost, financial assurance, or funding plans are required.
• Partner with Regulatory Affairs on financial assurance and decommissioning funding inputs.
• Work with cost estimating, commercial development, project controls, finance, and project leadership to keep financial assumptions aligned across the company.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in project finance, infrastructure finance, corporate development, financial planning and analysis, or a related role with a project economics focus.
• Strong financial modeling skills, including capital expenditures, operating costs, financing structures, sensitivities, and scenario analysis.
• Experience supporting capital planning, project cost reporting, earned value analysis, or project economics.
• Ability to produce executive-ready financial materials under tight deadlines.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Comfort working across finance, project controls, commercial, regulatory, and technical teams.
• Ability to operate in a fast-moving environment with incomplete information.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• U.S. person status required.