Project Finance Analyst

Core Power; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Performance-based bonuses

Health and wellness benefits

Pension plan

Professional development opportunities

Dynamic and challenging environment

Job summary

CORE POWER is seeking a Project Finance Analyst to join the Commercial Analytics team in Washington, D.C. The role focuses on building and maintaining project finance models for floating nuclear power projects, including SPV structures, cash flow analyses and pricing scenarios for investor engagements.

You will refine cost and revenue models, assess financing structures, and translate techno-economic data into actionable commercial guidance for strategic partnerships and deployment decisions.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in project finance, preferably in energy or infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains project finance models for FNPP/CMNP deployments, including SPVs, capital structure, cash flow and returns.
• Develops offtake revenue structures (PPA, tolling, lease vs own) and analyzes deal economics across end users.
• Supports capital formation options (equity, debt, export credits, government programs) and prepares pricing analyses for investors.
• Coordinates with Finance to align project models with corporate planning and fundraising materials.

Skills

Financial modelling

Project finance

Cash flow modelling

Scenario analysis

Tools

Excel

Python

Job description

COMPANY OVERVIEW

CORE POWER was founded in 2018 to solve the world's energy challenges by delivering ship-based power directly to the industries and economies driving global prosperity, overcoming the barriers that have held nuclear energy back.

CORE POWER builds, integrates and deploys ship-based nuclear energy systems. We build and support two classes of vessel: moored ship-shaped power plants that generate high-density energy, and nuclear-powered commercial ships that will speed up global trade.

Headquartered in Chiswick, London, with offices in Washington, D.C. and Japan, CORE POWER operates at the intersection of advanced nuclear, maritime, energy security and industrial policy.

Role Summary

The Project Finance Analyst joins the Commercial Analytics team with a focus on the project financing and deal economics of floating nuclear power plants (FNPP) and commercial marine nuclear propulsion (CMNP). The role develops, builds and maintains the project finance models that define the economics of selling and deploying an FNPP/CMNP, covering SPV structures, offtake and PPA pricing, cash flows and project returns, and provides the economic analysis and costing support that feeds delivery programs, including reactor and end user partnerships. The role also supports the evaluation of capital formation options for first-of-a-kind energy infrastructure, spanning equity, debt, export credit and government-backed financing, and the assessment of deployment opportunities for commercial and financial viability. As a pre-revenue, first-of-a-kind business, this analysis directly informs pricing, commercialization strategy, business model development and investor engagement.

Key Responsibilities

Provides project finance modelling, deal economics and costing support across the Analytics portfolio, alongside broader economic assessment covering market and competitive cost positioning, policy and incentive impacts, and business model economics, always with a commercial focus. Works closely with the Director of Analytics, the Commercial team, program leads and external partners to ensure the economics of FNPP and CMNP deployment are rigorously modelled, transparently documented and ready for commercial and investor use.

Job Requirements

Project Finance Modelling & Deal Economics

• Builds and maintains project finance models for FNPP and CMNP deployments, covering SPV structures, capital structure/stack and gearing, cash flow and project returns (IRR, NPV, DSCR, payback).
• Models offtake and revenue structures, including PPA pricing, tolling, charter style and lease versus own arrangements, and how deal economics differ across end users (utilities, data centers, industrial off-takers, shipowners).
• Develops financing scenarios and sensitivity analysis across cost of capital, contract tenor, delivery risk, refueling and refurbishment cycles, and residual value.
• Benchmarks structures, pricing and returns against comparable energy and infrastructure transactions and monitors relevant project finance market activity.
• Supports evaluation of capital formation and financing structures for first-of-a-kind deployment, including equity, debt, export credit agency and government-backed programs, and what each implies for project bankability.
• Maintains model documentation, assumption registers and audit trails to investment-grade standards, ensuring models are review-ready for external scrutiny.

Economic Analysis & Program Costing

• Provides support to economic analysis and cost modelling feeding delivery programs, including reactor vendor and end user collaboration projects.
• Supports bottom-up cost model development (cost to deliver), lifecycle cost analysis and LCOE/TCO assessment, integrating engineering inputs and partner data.
• Independently tests and challenges external cost estimates from partners and vendors.
• Translates techno-economic outputs into commercial implications such as pricing floors, margin structure, breakeven and bankability.
• Conducts broader economic assessment with a commercial focus, including market and competitive cost positioning, policy and incentive impacts, and business model economics.

Commercial & Investor Support

• Prepares deal economics and pricing analysis supporting commercial negotiations and business development activity.
• Supports development of analysis and materials underpinning investor engagement, including cost of product, unit economics and project returns cases.
• Coordinates with the Finance team to ensure project-level models align with corporate financial planning and fundraising materials.

Ways of Working

• Applies the team’s model standards, version control and review processes, and contributes to the shared knowledge base.
• Supports the development of graduate analysts in project finance methods as the team grows.
• Operates effectively in a first-of-a-kind/novel environment: forms defensible assumptions where no precedent exists, documents them transparently, and revises them as evidence develops.

Experience & Qualifications

• 3 - 5 years' experience in project finance gained at a bank, infrastructure fund, developer, utility or advisory firm, with energy or infrastructure project financing strongly preferred.
• Strong financial modelling capability, including project cash flow modelling and scenario analysis; advanced Excel essential, Python an advantage.
• Working knowledge of project finance structures and documentation, including SPVs, offtake contracts, security packages and lender requirements.
• Comfortable working across technical and engineering interfaces, and with the ambiguity inherent in a novel industry.

Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Performance-based bonuses.
• Health and wellness benefits.
• Pension plan.
• Professional development opportunities.
• A highly committed, dynamic, and challenging environment.