What The Role Is

Reporting to the Director, Asset Management, the Senior Analyst will serve as a member of a team responsible for the commercial management of about 5 GW of utility-scale wind and solar power projects located across the United States.   Asset Management also serves as the owner’s representative ensuring that budget control, value optimization, and risk mitigation is performed during the entire operational lifecycle of a project.

The Senior Analyst will work closely with the other members of the team and a wide range of Clearway departments to help maximize the value of assets, ensure contractual compliance, and support growth initiatives.

If you don’t meet 100% of the below qualifications but see yourself contributing, please submit your resume.

What You'll Be Doing

Due Diligence on New Project Investments:

• Support project evaluations, project agreements, contract reviews, and due diligence to help make recommendations in support of acquisitions, divestitures, and/or investments in company-developed projects.

Financial & Performance Management:

• Provide P&L analysis and economic performance for generating assets within the assigned portfolio.
• Perform financial analyses, project evaluations, and due diligence to help make recommendations in support of plant optimization, recovery plans, revenue enhancement, and other major capital investments.
• Analyze, track, and update budgets, forecasts, and financial models.
• Monitor monthly performance and variance reports; investigate and address observed deviations.
• Investigate any major plant outages and influence resolution or minimization of outages.
• Review gross margin performance and work with the energy management group to explain variances due to market conditions.
• Extract generation data from external & internal sources as needed to support various reporting needs.
• Ensure asset financial models are updated, as needed.

Commercial Management & Administration:

• Lead business administration activities and coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with key project company agreements, and financing agreements.
• Control and manage project document organization and retention.
• Ensure general business-related license, permit, and regulatory requirements are successfully managed.
• Review project company agreements to accommodate any project modifications.
• Prepare reports and presentations for project stakeholders as required.

Project Integration

• Interface with business development, finance, and construction management teams to ensure smooth transition of projects into commercial operation.
• Support the development of information, sharing platforms, and work management systems, including populating such systems with historical records and archiving of documents.
• Support improvements to asset management and project handover processes.

Community & Project Stakeholder Engagement:

• Form positive relationships with external stakeholders including customers, partners, landowners, etc.
• Identify project-related opportunities for charitable giving to foster community goodwill.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Finance, Business, Economics, or related field.
• 1-3 years of professional experience in financial analysis, business/market analysis, project valuation, project/business administration, project management, project development, asset management, compliance management, contract administration, deal execution, project finance, energy and environmental market analysis, or other analysis or commercial role.
• Experience reading regulatory or legal documents.
• Ability to read, translate, and interpret complex agreements or regulations, understanding of legal terminology.
• Experience researching, analyzing, and synthesizing data and reports.
• Developed analytical, project management, and organizational skills.
• Strong business and financial savvy with an understanding of accounting, finance, and valuation concepts.
• An ability to perform at a high level in a matrixed organization, working in inter-departmental teams to achieve objectives.
• Experience manipulating and managing large amounts of structured and unstructured data. Prior experience with the use of formulas in Excel (i.e., vlookup, sumproduct, sumif, index/match, conditional formatting, etc.) and creating reports from scratch.
• Ability to occasionally travel to company or project locations.

What Would Be Nice

• Experience working in the power industry is preferred.
• Experience managing external client relationships is preferred.
• Renewable energy industry experience in solar, wind, geothermal or hydro.
• Demonstrated familiarity with energy markets, and major energy industry players and regulatory bodies.
• Efficient communication and interpersonal skills.
• Continuous Improvement & learning mindset.
• Advanced expertise with Microsoft Office, especially Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Clearway will not sponsor nonimmigrant visas for this position (H-1B, TN, E-3, etc.).

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