Project Finance Manager

About the role

The Project Finance Manager will own the project-level financial models that underpin investment decisions, financing negotiations, and partnership economics across Peak Energy’s portfolio. This is a high-impact role where your models directly shape strategy and capital allocation.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain project pro formas from early development through COD: revenue forecasts (capacity payments, energy arbitrage, ancillary services, resource adequacy), CapEx/OpEx assumptions, degradation and augmentation schedules, and terminal value.
• Model capital structures including tax equity (partnership flip, direct pay, transfer), preferred equity facilities, and project-level debt.
• Build waterfall distributions across complex multi-party structures.
• Support acquisition evaluation—take interconnection data, permitting status, offtake terms, and chemistry conversion assumptions and produce actionable go/no-go acquisition models on tight timelines.
• Analyze IRA incentive structures: ITC adders (energy community, domestic content), direct pay vs. transfer economics, and bonus credit qualification.
• Prepare investor-facing outputs—clean, auditable models and summary materials for institutional capital partners, lenders, and insurance underwriters.
• Develop sensitivity and scenario analyses that articulate risk around a chemistry (sodium-ion) with a thinner bankable track record than lithium.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years in renewable energy or storage project finance—at a developer, IPP, infrastructure fund, or advisory firm.
• Demonstrated experience building project finance models that have been through investor or lender diligence (not just internal screening).
• Strong command of ITC/PTC mechanics post-IRA, including tax equity structures.
• Advanced Excel modeling skills; comfort with Python or similar for scenario automation and data analysis is a strong plus.
• Familiarity with CAISO markets, interconnection processes, or California regulatory landscape preferred.
• Ability to communicate model assumptions and outputs clearly to non-financial stakeholders and external counterparties.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with battery energy storage projects specifically (any chemistry).
• Exposure to project acquisition diligence or M&A in the energy space.
• Familiarity with tax credit insurance, transfer markets, or emerging IRA compliance guidance.