Strategic Finance Manager
On-siteSeattle, Washington, United States
Job Summary
Build and own project-level financial models for live offtake and financing negotiations, maintaining the company's cost-of-capital trajectory and single source of truth for deal economics. Support active negotiations with strategic customers, governments, and industrial partners by delivering pricing scenarios, capital stack options, and sensitivity analyses that hold up under scrutiny from sophisticated counterparties. Score pipeline projects against the evaluation framework, maintain data rooms for partners and lenders, and translate economic terms into agreement language with outside counsel. Lead real-time economics and industry intelligence for global commercial and project finance, pressure-testing draft agreements and developing structuring analyses for new markets. Report directly to the COO, providing quantitative and qualitative research on counterparty economics and markets.
Required 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
- Advanced Excel modeling skill
- Strong understanding of energy or infrastructure project economics
- Experience with counterparty due diligence
- Detail-oriented and organized manager
- Clear, direct writing suitable for term sheets, internal memos, and counterparty-facing materials
- Excellent communication attributes suitable for negotiating commercial terms with external counterparties
- Comfort operating with ambiguity, incomplete data, and short timelines
Desired Qualifications
- 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
- Exposure to first-of-a-kind or pre-bankable technology financing
- Familiarity with development finance institution instruments such as political risk insurance, partial risk guarantees, or export credit facilities
- Prior experience with infrastructure or infra-adjacent financings and transactions outside the US market
- Familiarity with power purchase agreements, tolling structures, capacity contracts, or colocation deal structures
- Network with and experience working with hyperscalers, data centers, utilities, industrials, and government PPA negotiations
- Experience supporting live negotiations or transaction execution as the analytical lead
- Experience operating in high-urgency organizations with aggressive commercial and operational schedules
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