Director, Project Finance & Valuation

Tapio; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A high-growth energy storage firm is seeking a Director of Project Finance to lead valuation, capital execution, and financial modeling for their battery storage portfolio. The ideal candidate will bring over 10 years of project finance experience, particularly in energy storage, and will lead complex financial modeling efforts while collaborating across departments. This full-time role offers a competitive compensation package, including a base salary of $120,000–$130,000. Mentoring junior talent is also a key responsibility.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in power/renewables project finance, especially in energy storage.
• Ability to lead and own high-stakes valuation models with clarity.
• Experience in debt financings, structured equity, M&A, or portfolio transactions.
• Strong command of underwriting and transaction structuring.

Responsibilities

• Own the financial modeling environment and ensure consistency.
• Lead complex modeling for urgent financing opportunities.
• Mentor junior talent and develop clear work standards.
• Align finance outputs with reporting systems.

Skills

Modeling expertise

Project finance

Energy storage knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Director, Sr. Manager, Project Finance & Valuation

Platform Type: PE backed BESS IPP

Focus: BESS

Compensation: Competitive base + cash bonus

The Opportunity

A high-growth, private equity-backed energy storage IPP is seeking a Director of Project Finance to lead valuation, structuring, and capital execution across its battery storage portfolio.

This role goes beyond traditional project finance execution. It requires a strategic, detail-oriented leader who can own the “source of truth” modeling environment, sharpen underwriting and risk frameworks, and standardize how the company evaluates and executes project- and portfolio-level transactions.

You’ll serve as a close partner to the executive team, owning valuation strategy, supporting capital markets activity, and helping scale the processes, tools, and team capabilities required to finance a growing storage platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the platform’s model and template architecture (structure, assumptions, and version governance), ensuring a consistent, audit-ready financial “operating system” that supports both asset- and portfolio-level decisions.
• Continuously improve the modeling stack by reducing template debt over time—making models faster to run, easier to extend, and more reliable under tight timelines and high diligence intensity.
• Personally lead modeling and structuring for the most complex or time-sensitive opportunities, including financings and strategic transactions involving contracted vs. merchant revenue mixes, tolling/offtake terms, augmentation strategy, and long-duration operating assumptions.
• Act as lead execution partner to the CIO, quarterbacking capital markets workflows and driving transactions from initial structuring through term sheet, diligence, and close.
• Build scenario-driven underwriting tools to evaluate storage-specific value drivers and downside cases (e.g., dispatch sensitivity, price/volatility regimes, capacity/RA constructs, degradation/augmentation, congestion and basis risk, curtailment, and merchant tails), anticipating investor and lender sensitivities and embedding protective structuring where needed.
• Serve as final quality control and sign-off for all externally facing models and analyses—reviewing accuracy, consistency, and narrative alignment across IC materials, investor decks, lender diligence, and valuation deliverables.
• Manage intake and prioritization across structuring requests, sequencing modeling workstreams across development, commercial, and M&A so the team focuses on the highest-value decisions without sacrificing rigor.
• Mentor and develop junior talent by creating leverage through clear work standards, repeatable templates, and coaching that enables scale without repeated senior intervention.
• Align project finance outputs with the CFO’s reporting systems, ensuring that valuation assumptions reconcile to internal dashboards and forecasts reflect real-world cash flow timing and revenue recognition.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in power/renewables project finance, with significant exposure to energy storage (standalone and/or hybrid).
• Deep modeling expertise and the ability to make and defend high-stakes valuation decisions with clarity and precision.
• Demonstrated experience owning models used in debt financings, structured equity, M&A, or portfolio transactions (and navigating lender/investor diligence expectations).
• Strong command of storage underwriting and transaction structuring, including scenario analysis tied to operating performance, revenue stack design, and merchant/contracted tradeoffs.
• Proven ability to drive process discipline and system improvement—standardizing workflows while improving speed and reliability over time.
• Track record of quality control leadership, with comfort being the final checkpoint on externally delivered analyses.
• Highly collaborative and effective cross-functionally (commercial, development, engineering, legal), with demonstrated ability to mentor and scale team output.
• Prior experience in a PE-backed platform or high-growth energy company is a plus.

Seniority Level

• Director

Employment Type

• Full-time

Job Function

• Finance

Location: United States

Salary: $120,000.00–$130,000.00