The Vice President of Structured Finance will be responsible for tax equity finance structuring, negotiations, and execution, power purchase agreement (PPA) pricing, project finance modeling, financial planning and analysis (FP&A) support, and other strategic planning efforts for Standard Solar, a developer, installer and owner of solar energy systems.

The ideal candidate will be willing and able to initially take a hands-on approach, dive deep into financial models, establish a long-term departmental vision, and cultivate a self- sufficient team that reduces his/her need to remain in the trenches on a day-to-day basis.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Negotiate legal and operative documents for tax equity, project debt, and back leverage transactions.
• Prepare timelines and responsibilities as structured transactions are identified.
• Work with internal resource teams (Business Development, Diligence, Engineering, Construction, Accounting, O&M) and external teams (Legal, Tax Equity Investors, Advisors, Independent Engineers, Appraisers, etc.) to establish and monitor workstreams.
• Prepare financial analyses for contract negotiations and product investment decisions
• Support Standard Solar’s business development team by ensuring accurate modeling and analysis of solar energy project economics to calculate profitable Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) pricing.
• Oversee multiple workstreams of PPA pricing requests, ensuring proper documentation of assumptions and quotes in Salesforce.
• Acquire and communicate relevant information about federal, state and local solar energy incentives to Standard Solar stakeholders.
• Drive continuous improvement process for pricing strategy, tools, and process through trend analysis and tracking actual vs. expected results.
• Recommend and track benchmarks for measuring financial and operating performance
• Establish short- and long-range departmental goals, objectives, policies, and operating procedures
• Design, establish, and maintain an organizational structure to effectively accomplish the departments goals and objectives
• Develop and manage accurate and understandable financial models in MS Excel and on other financial model platforms for internal and external audiences.
• Effectively socialize new concepts and engage internal groups to launch and close all types of structured finance transactions.
• Promote a culture of innovation by continuously challenging the staff to seek out process improvement initiatives, automation enhancements and idea generation to ensure transactions are being run optimally.
• Responsible for guiding workflows and monitoring the work output of staff.
• Provide leadership and direction to staff and foster development of employees and teams.
• Hold self and others accountable for shortcomings in the implementation of strategies/initiatives, documenting lessons learned and recommendations for improvement.
• Prepare presentation materials for corporate management and project investors.
• Produce short-term and long-term corporate profitability and cashflow forecasts for management and investors.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Manages the Structured Finance Department.
• Recruits and hires financial staff and conducts performance evaluations.
• Coordinates training programs for new staff and identifies training needs for current staff.

Minimum Education, Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or another related field. Master’s degree preferred.
• Eight years or more of related experience.
• Experience structuring tax equity transactions strongly preferred
• Proficient in financial modeling concepts.
• Expert with MS Excel, and highly skilled with other MS Office products including PowerPoint and Word.
• Self-starter with a strong sense of ownership and responsibility.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to effectively communicate and collaborate with all departments within company.
• Ability to effectively manage multiple deadlines and work in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Strong grasp of financial/accounting principles.
• High attention to details.