Senior Analyst, Capital Markets

Location: Hybrid
Team: Capital Markets
 

What You'll Do

You will be a key driver in the execution of sophisticated capital markets transactions, focusing on the financing and valuation of utility-scale solar, wind, and BESS assets. This role is designed for a high-performing analyst who can perform "model surgery" on complex financial structures while simultaneously supporting the rigorous due diligence required for project financings and M&A activity. Your work will directly enable the deployment of capital into the renewable energy transition.

Key Responsibilities:

• Advanced Financial Modeling: Own and restructure project-level and portfolio-level DCF models, managing complex waterfalls and performing deep-dive sensitivity analysis on value levers.
• Capital Markets Execution: Support the structuring and closing of tax equity, debt, and cash equity transactions by maintaining precise financial exhibits and scenario outputs.
• Consultant & Diligence Management: Coordinate directly with Independent Engineers (IE), appraisal firms, and tax consultants to manage Cost Segregation and Market Value reports, ensuring all model inputs align with third-party findings.
• M&A Valuation Support: Develop valuation frameworks for potential acquisitions or divestitures, performing "bottom-up" underwriting and helping draft Investment Committee materials.
• Transaction Monitoring: Track market trends in interest rates and tax law changes to update underwriting assumptions for the firm’s development pipeline.

What We're Looking For

Required:

• Experience: 1–2 years of experience in project finance, capital markets, or investment banking, specifically within the renewable energy or infrastructure sectors.
• Technical Modeling: Exceptional Excel skills with a proven ability to "get in the weeds" of a model to fix broken logic or integrate new structural features (e.g., HLBV or complex debt sizing).
• Finance Fundamentals: Strong command of valuation analysis, including pre- and after-tax returns, levered vs. unlevered yields, and basic project finance documentation.
• Detail Orientation: Proven ability to manage multiple data rooms and synthesize models from multiple technical consultants under tight deadlines.

Nice to Have:

• Previous experience supporting M&A transactions or utility-scale project acquisitions.
• Familiarity with BESS-specific revenue streams and dispatch modeling.

About the Tech Stack

• Languages: Languages: Excel/VBA for advanced financial automation.
• Frameworks: Fully Structured Financial Models, and Tax Equity Modeling.
• Infrastructure: Microsoft Excel (Expert), ERP systems.
• Tools: Virtual Data Rooms (VDR), Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint.

About 1st Avenue Power:

 At 1st Avenue Power, we are on a mission to deliver simple, fast-to-deploy, customer-centric and intelligent power systems leveraging the abundance of solar to provide inexpensive and reliable clean energy to global customers from data centers to energy starved communities around the world. We envision a future where every community, business, and nation thrives on the limitless potential of clean energy, united in a shared commitment to a sustainable and equitable world.

You will be working with Dr. Tom Buttgenbach, a clean energy technology innovator and entrepreneur who has been a driving force in making solar-based energy solutions the cheapest and most reliable energy option. Tom founded and led Avantus (formerly known as “8minute Solar Energy“), to become one of the largest and most profitable solar and energy storage companies in the United States and the largest in California, including delivering over 17% of Los Angeles’ power.  When Tom sold his interest in Avantus’ development business  to KKR in mid-2024, it had delivered over $1 billion in profit and secured over $10 Billion in power purchase agreements and project financings with a pipeline of over 30 GW of solar and 90 GWh of energy storage, capable of powering the homes of more than 20 million Americans day and night. Tom’s family office investment firm, 1st Avenue Capital, is building teams for the next generation of advanced solar power system architecture and AI to aggressively drive down the cost of and equitable access to clean and reliable energy.[¹] 1st Avenue’s advanced large scale power systems are addressing the increasing inadequacy of the grid to meet the massively growing power demands of the digital economy, while its intelligent distributed solar utilities are leapfrogging the grid to provide equitable access to inexpensive, clean and reliable power to underserved communities around the world.

Compensation & Benefits:

• Competitive Compensation
• Health Insurance:
• We offer 100% coverage of employee premiums under a Gold-level PPO plan.
• Dental & Vision Insurance: 50% of employee premiums are covered.
• Retirement Plan: A 401(k) plan with a 6% employer match.

 

1AI Energy, the employing entity for 1st Avenue Power, and 1st Avenue Power are committed to a policy of Equal Employment Opportunity and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee based on race (inclusive of traits associated with race, including hair texture and protective hairstyles), color, religion, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding), age, veteran or military status, marital status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, reproductive decision-making, or any other legally recognized protected class under federal, state, or local law.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.. Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), and local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on 1AI Energy or 1st Avenue Power. Please inform the company's personnel representative if you need assistance completing an application or to otherwise participate in the application process. 

 

 

Join our team and make a real difference in the world.

 

[¹: Additionally, 1st Avenue is in the business of acquiring projects where there has been a final notice-to-proceed or financial close.]