Project Finance Analyst

About Valar Atomics

At Valar Atomics, we're redefining what's possible in energy. Our mission is to make clean, high-temperature nuclear power scalable—unlocking abundant energy for industry, hydrogen, and next-generation manufacturing. We are a team of builders, engineers, and operators who believe nuclear energy should be fast to deploy, factory-made, and built for the real world. Our first pilot plant in Orangeville, Utah will demonstrate how advanced nuclear systems and fuel fabrication can power the future. Joining Valar Atomics means becoming part of a company where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level.

About The Role

The Project Finance Analyst will support the financial planning, cost analysis, and project economics that guide Valar’s commercial project decisions. This role will help build the financial foundation for Valar’s commercial projects, including capital plans, cost forecasts, earned value analysis, scenario models, and financial packages for internal reviews, board updates, investors, lenders, and customer discussions.

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 long-range capital planning scenarios for future commercial project deployment.
• Build 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.
• Support the project controls team in maintaining the project cost coding structure, including work breakdown structure and cost breakdown structure 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.