Project Finance Analyst

At Aircapture we’re creating technology to solve what we believe to be our lifetime’s most pressing challenge: the climate crisis.  We supply commercial and industrial customers with clean CO2 captured from our atmosphere to radically improve the environment, our economy, and our lives. We value building a team of people who represent diverse backgrounds–be it thought, education, gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation–to reach our goals. Thank you for considering us.

As Project Finance Analyst you will own and strategize our mission-critical economic models from corporate pro forma models, project models, project finance models, and beyond. You love telling stories with numbers by collaborating with the engineering, accounting and commercial teams to model project economics, quantify risk, and explain the opportunity. If you are excited to create enormous value for the organization as we work to mitigate the impacts of climate change, this is the role for you!

This role is onsite at our development and production facility in Berkeley, California.

Salary Range: $145,000-165,000 per year

What You’ll Do Here 

• Support and partner with the Head of Finance with economic and financial modeling to empower our company to scale
• Own the corporate pro forma model–collaborating with the accounting, engineering, and commercialization teams to develop and refine forward-looking estimates with an eye towards our Series B round of financing
• Help standardize project modeling and processes across accounting, engineering, and the executive team
• Develop customer facing models to help customers model our technology in their infrastructure
• Support leadership and project managers on reporting for project finance and learning from budget vs actuals on projects
• Identify, understand, and quantify risk for a nascent technology that is expanding into broader commercial opportunities
• Be hands-on and versatile in an early-stage start-up environment by supporting the finance/accounting team on other projects when needed

Your Skills and Abilities Include

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or related field, master’s degree preferred
• 6+ years of experience with financial modeling, at least 2 of which creating pro forma financial statements and industrial projects for engineering and commercialization
• Skills as a collaborative economic modeler focused on data integrity and financial innovation
• An understanding of using scenario analyses in financial modeling, and an understanding of economic drivers of commercializing nascent technologies –you quantify risk in emerging technologies for breakfast
• The desire and drive to learn the business, collaborate with stakeholders, identify and build variables, and strategically design models that resonate with project teams, investors and decision makers
• Passion for technology’s role in mitigating climate change – excited to be part of a team that is “first of its kind”
• Data focused, yet also comfortable with a business where the variables and inputs change frequently
• Preferred: specific experience with project finance models or interest in building expertise in project finance.  Our company will soon leverage project finance funding

Aircapture strives to create a safe, inclusive, equitable and diverse workplace.  Every teammate adds to who we are, diversifying our ideas, experiences and viewpoints and makes us stronger. We hope you feel welcome here.