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Sr. Director, Project Finance

Avantus · Bull Mountain, OR · 1 mo ago
HybridFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role? Actually the posting includes "About Avantus" and "About The Position". We need to use

for section headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. So we need to parse content. We have: - About Avantus: description of company. Could be considered "About the role"? Actually "About The Position" is description of role. So we could have a section "About the role" containing that description. - Essential Functions And Responsibilities: list of duties. Should be under Responsibilities heading. - Required Skills And Qualifications: list of qualifications. Could be under Requirements or Qualifications or Skills. We need to decide. The instruction: Use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we can have multiple: Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay. We need to avoid thin sections; combine where appropriate. We have content for Responsibilities (Essential Functions And Responsibilities). We have content for Required Skills And Qualifications (skills and qualifications). Could split into Requirements (experience years) and Qualifications (skills) and Skills (specific abilities). But we can combine into one section "Requirements" that includes both experience and skills. However we have separate headings allowed; we should not create empty sections. We need to decide what to include. We also have Benefits: "Avantus offers competitive compensation with an excellent benefits package, including 401(k) matching; comprehensive medical and dental plan options; and flexible PTO." That's benefits. Pay: "Pay Range $230,000—$275,000 USD". Also mention base salary range etc. So we have Pay. Schedule: Not mentioned; we should not create Schedule section. We also have some other metadata like "We are an equal-opportunity employer." That's boilerplate to remove. We need to preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep the details from the posting. We need to format using

for headings,
  • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

    for prose. We need to output only HTML fragment, no /, no markdown. We need to ensure we don't repeat job title as heading. The job title is "Sr. Director, Project Finance". Not to be used as heading. We need to include sections only when posting has real specific content. Thus possible sections: - About the role (from "About The Position" paragraph) - Responsibilities (Essential Functions And Responsibilities) - Requirements (maybe combine Required Skills And Qualifications) - Benefits - Pay We could also have Qualifications separate but we can combine. We need to preserve all substantive information: The "About Avantus" description also is substantive; should we include it? Could be part of "About the role" or maybe a separate "About the company". But allowed headings list does not include "About the company". However we could include it under "About the role" as part of description? The instruction: Use

    for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It says e.g., not limited to those? It says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities...). Likely they expect those headings. So we should stick to those. The "About Avantus" could be considered part of "About the role" (company context). Or we could omit it? But we must preserve ALL substantive information. So we need to include it somewhere. Could put it in a

    under "About the role" heading. Thus:

    About the role

    About Avantus Avantus develops, owns and operates utility-scale clean energy projects across California and the Desert Southwest. Our development pipeline of solar with integrated storage will generate enough dispatchable power to serve more than 10 million Americans, day and night. Backed by strategic investment from KKR and EIG, and building on more than a decade of industry leadership, Avantus is growing its position as an independent power producer, delivering affordable, reliable clean energy solutions to meet America’s growing energy demand.

    About The Position We are seeking a highly motivated and organized candidate for a Sr. Director, Project Finance position. The Sr. Director, Project Finance leads transaction execution across M&A, projecting financings, and corporate level financings for Avantus. The successful candidate will demonstrate sound industry knowledge, superior communications, and detail-oriented organizational skills.

    But note we should not repeat the job title as heading; but we can mention it in prose. Now Responsibilities: we need to list each duty as
  • . The responsibilities list is long with many sentences. We need to extract each bullet. The text includes many sentences separated by spaces. We need to parse them into list items. We must preserve all substantive information; we cannot invent or summarize away detail. So we need to break into items that correspond to each distinct responsibility. The original text: "Lead transaction execution for various types of financing, including M&A, project financings, and corporate level financingsPrimary point of contact to negotiate financing documentationCoordinate with analysts, associates, and project team members to manage closing processes, including coordinating reviews and approvals across multi-functional teams, to bring the transaction to financial close under tight timeframesIdentify and maintain relationships with potential project investors within the equity fund and banking communities and develop strategies to build up our utility-scale solar power generation project pipeline in North America; propose, facilitate, and close project finance solutionsMaintain and develop external relationships with financing counterpartiesStay current on market financing terms and obtain intel on financings within the sectorMaintain and be responsible (internally and externally) for complex project finance models for internal and external parties to evaluate renewable energy projects during various stages of development, construction, and operation on an individual and portfolio basis Manage and audit finance models created by junior team membersAnalyze and draw conclusions from project models which evaluate various financing terms and constraints for construction loans, tax equity bridge loans, and sponsor equity with back-leverage loans in time and yield-based partnership flip tax equity structuresObtain and negotiate financing term sheets and agreementsReview and negotiate project documentation and third-party reports, including PPAs, financing term sheets and agreements, IE reports, etc., and accurately integrate assumptions into financial modelsVoice of the project team to assess financeability issues related to PPAs, EPC and Procurement Agreements, and other major contracts or development topicsIndependently develop and run sensitivities in models and quantify resulting impact on sponsor IRRs, margins, and other key metricsDrive creation and completion of marketing materials for fundraising, including teasers, CIMs, and management of data roomsManage closing process, including coordinating reviews and approvals across multi-functional teams, to bring the transaction to financial close under tight timeframesContribute to updates to underwriting standards to ensure proper market and internal assumptions are accurately captured in the financial modelsPerform other duties and special projects, as assignedManage project financings to meet closing timeframesAnalyze or evaluate complex financing topics. Lead discussions with external parties and internal SMEs to drive at conclusions or issue resolutionsMentor Project Finance Associates and Managers Prepare and present materials to Senior and Executive teams and to the Board, as necessaryEngage with counterparties to stay current on financing/tax issues affecting the industry" We need to split into sensible list items. Each seems to be a phrase separated by no punctuation sometimes. We need to preserve the content; we can separate by periods where present. But many lack periods. We could just make each sentence as an item, but we need to ensure we don't lose any content. Let's try to split by capital letters after a period? Might be messy. Simpler: we can treat each distinct responsibility as a separate
  • by using the sentences as they appear, but we need to insert appropriate punctuation. Since we cannot invent content, we must not add new information, but we can add punctuation for readability? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Adding punctuation is not inventing substantive information; it's just formatting. Likely acceptable. Thus we can break at each capital letter that starts a new responsibility after a lowercase? Might be error prone. Alternative: we can output the responsibilities as a single paragraph

    but the instruction says use

    • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we need to make a list. We could create a single
    • containing the entire responsibilities text, but that would be a list with one item, which is still a list. That would preserve all info. That might be acceptable: a list of duties with one item containing the whole block. However the instruction: "Use
      • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits". If we treat the whole block as a list, it's still a list. But maybe they expect multiple items. However not strictly prohibited. But to be safe, we can split by clear separators: each responsibility seems to start with a verb (Lead, Coordinate, Identify, Maintain, Stay, Maintain (again), Manage, Analyze, Obtain, Review, Voice, Independently develop, Drive, Manage (again), Contribute, Perform, Manage (again), Analyze or evaluate, Lead discussions, Mentor, Prepare and present, Engage). Many start with capital letters after a period or after a semicolon. We can manually split based on those verbs. Let's attempt to list them: 1. Lead transaction execution for various types of financing, including M&A, project financings, and corporate level financings 2. Primary point of contact to negotiate financing documentation 3. Coordinate with analysts, associates, and project team members to manage closing processes, including coordinating reviews and approvals across multi-functional teams, to bring the transaction to financial close under tight timeframes 4. Identify and maintain relationships with potential project investors within the equity fund and banking communities and develop strategies to build up our utility-scale solar power generation project pipeline in North America; propose, facilitate, and close project finance solutions 5. Maintain and develop external relationships with financing counterparties 6. Stay current on market financing terms and obtain intel on financings within the sector 7. Maintain and be responsible (internally and externally) for complex project finance models for internal and external parties to evaluate renewable energy projects during various stages of development, construction, and operation on an individual and portfolio basis 8. Manage and audit finance models created by junior team members 9. Analyze and draw conclusions from project models which evaluate various financing terms and constraints for construction loans, tax equity bridge loans, and sponsor equity with back-leverage loans in time and yield-based partnership flip tax equity structures 10. Obtain and negotiate financing term sheets and agreements 11. Review and negotiate project documentation and third-party reports, including PPAs, financing term sheets and agreements, IE reports, etc., and accurately integrate assumptions into financial models 12. Voice of the project team to assess financeability issues related to PPAs, EPC and Procurement Agreements, and other major contracts or development topics 13. Independently develop and run sensitivities in models and quantify resulting impact on sponsor IRRs, margins, and other key metrics 14. Drive creation and completion of marketing materials for fundraising, including teasers, CIMs, and management of data rooms 15. Manage closing process, including coordinating reviews and approvals across multi-functional teams, to bring the transaction to financial close under tight timeframes 16. Contribute to updates to underwriting standards to ensure proper market and internal assumptions are accurately captured in the financial models 17. Perform other duties and special projects, as assigned 18. Manage project financings to meet closing timeframes 19. Analyze or evaluate complex financing topics. Lead discussions with external parties and internal SMEs to drive at conclusions or issue resolutions 20. Mentor Project Finance Associates and Managers 21.

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