Strategic Finance Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Build and own project-level financial models for every pipeline project: pricing, CAPEX, delivered cost of energy, capital stacks, and returns
• Own and maintain the company's cost-of-capital trajectory and proforma pricing/CAPEX ($ per MW/MWh) model(s), keeping it anchored to real financing structures and market comparables
• Support live negotiations with pricing scenarios, term sheet economics, sensitivity analyses, and rapid-turn responses to counterparty positions
• Score pipeline projects against our project evaluation framework and maintain the deal-economics source of truth used across the company
• Model government and development finance instruments into project capital stacks, including grants, loan guarantees, and risk-mitigation products
• Build and maintain data rooms for partners, customers, and future lenders
• Support the commercial team's pipeline reporting, including agreement tracking and progress metrics
• Work with outside counsel and advisors to translate economic terms into agreement language, and pressure-test the economics of draft agreements
• Develop pricing and structuring analyses for new markets and new deal types as the pipeline expands
• Be the Endurance lead on real-time economics, pricing, structures, and industry intelligence for GLOBAL commercial and project finance as well as power markets.

Qualifications

• ~7 years of experience structuring and modeling capital for real projects or transactions
• Demonstrated experience building infrastructure-grade, auditable project financial models from a blank workbook: revenue builds, PPA pricing, capital stacks, debt service and sizing, and returns analysis. All built with full sensitivity and scenario analysis capabilities
• Advanced Excel modeling skill, with clean, auditable model architecture
• Creative financier who can integrate blended capital into traditional project finance
• Familiarity if not expertise with government, multilateral, credit support, philanthropic grants, tax credit-equity, private credit, structured/asset backed finance, and beyond
• Strong understanding of energy or infrastructure project economics, including levelized cost concepts, offtake structures, and how cost of capital drives delivered cost
• Experience with counterparty due diligence (e.g. offtake credit) and responding to external investor and lender due diligence
• Detail-oriented and organized manager who can own transaction documentation, internal project management, and management of legal counsel, engineering, market study consultants, and other service vendors
• Clear, direct writing suitable for term sheets, internal memos, and counterparty-facing materials including presentations and proposals
• Able to code switch and mentor others to code switch across asset classes (VC to project finance) and audiences (data center to utilities to engineers to finance professionals)
• Comfort operating with ambiguity, incomplete data, and short timelines

PREFERRED SKILLS

• Exposure to first-of-a-kind or pre-bankable technology financing, where standard project finance templates do not yet apply
• Familiarity with development finance institution instruments such as political risk insurance, partial risk guarantees, or export credit facilities
• Experience supporting live negotiations or transaction execution as the analytical lead
• Experience operating in high-urgency organizations with aggressive commercial and operational schedules