Manager, Valuation and Investments

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TITLE: Manager, Valuation and Investments

EMPLOYER:  AES Clean Energy Services, LLC

LOCATION: Arlington, VA (Full-time telecommuting permitted)

                                                    

DUTIES: Lead valuation efforts for new investment opportunities—including both greenfield development and M&A.

Build and review complex financial models that incorporate debt, tax equity, and project equity structures to enable

financing. Coordinate cross-functional teams to develop robust business cases, identify risks, and surface potential

upsides. Guide projects through the investment process, ensuring alignment with strategic and financial objectives.

Present clear, compelling investment cases to leadership and internal stakeholders. Partner across teams to develop

regional strategies, decision-making tools, and analyses that enhance prioritization and innovation. Manage and mentor

team members; foster a culture of inclusion, growth, and continuous improvement. On a daily basis, lead valuation

efforts for project financial modeling and approval requests from Development, Commercial, and M&A, which includes

coordinating with SMEs to make sure accuracy of the assumptions, and review financial models prepared by analysts

and associates before sharing the financial metrics to broader team and/or senior management to inform decision

making. Spearheading process improvement initiatives such as modeling tool improvement, financial input sheet

improvement, and underwriting process improvements. Provide financial metrics, rule of thumbs, and analyses to help

middle level management team in the Central region to prioritize development projects.

REQUIREMENTS: Job requires a Master’s degree in business administration or a related field and 3 Years of

experience in renewable energy financial analysis or a related field.

The position requires 3 years of experience in:

• Renewable energy offtake structures and translating commercial terms into financial models including both physical and virtual PPAs, with settlement node or hub, as well as tolling agreements.
• Using analytical frameworks, such as decision tree, Excel Solver for stochastic modeling to evaluate investment decisions.
• US power markets, especially MISO, ERCOT, and SPP. Using market knowledge to evaluate greenfield and M&A project risks and provide valuation scenarios and sensitivities for decision making.

The position requires 2 years of experience in:

• Building and reviewing complex financial models that incorporate debt and tax equity financing for solar, wind, and energy storage projects, including structuring partnership flip deal, modeling s704(b) capital accounts, outside basis accounts, suspended losses, s731(a) gain recognition and s745 step up, Deficit Restoration Obligation.

• Economic drivers of renewable energy technologies, specifically wind, solar and energy storage, and ability to translate the knowledge into quantifiable financial analysis to create solutions for project optimization.          

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