Project Finance Analyst

Renewable Energy Financial Modelling Analyst SEKO | Full-time contractor | Remote Position summary Compensation: Competitive monthly compensation, paid in USD Engagement: Full-time contractor, with an initial 90-day trial period Location: Remote, with daily working overlap with London or U.S. Eastern Time Reporting: Works directly with SEKO's project finance and deal team About the role SEKO is an established company expanding its global footprint into energy and infrastructure, including solar, battery energy storage (BESS), hydropower, conventional power, and PPP energy infrastructure. To support this growth, SEKO is hiring a Financial Analyst with three core responsibilities: deal analysis, transaction structuring support, and financial model development.

The analyst will evaluate projects from initial documentation through to a clear conclusion on financeability: whether a project can attract debt and equity capital, and on what terms. This requires a strong grasp of transaction economics, the ability to contribute to capital structure and risk allocation decisions alongside the deal team, and the technical skill to build the financial models on which those decisions rest. This is a hands-on transaction role.

The analyst will work on live deals from the outset, and their output will feed directly into lender and investor decisions. Responsibilities Analyse live transactions across solar, BESS, hydro, and power infrastructure, including contracts, counterparties, project economics, and risk factors. Support deal structuring, including capital structure, debt sizing, tenor, DSRA and reserve mechanics, security packages, and risk allocation among sponsors, lenders, and offtakers.

Build project finance models in Excel from first principles, covering PPA and tolling revenue, EPC costs, O&M, taxes, FX, debt, DSCR, IRR, NPV, and sensitivities. Prepare base case, downside case, and lender case outputs, with debt sized against each. Review underlying project agreements, including PPAs, tolling agreements, concession agreements, EPC proposals, and offtake and financing terms, and translate their provisions into model logic and risk assessment.

Assess offtaker risk, country risk, construction risk, and payment risk, and form a substantiated view on bankability. Prepare investment memoranda, lender summaries, and risk flag reports for decision-makers. Key deliverables Fully functional project finance models that are transparent, auditable, and suitable for distribution to lenders and investors.

Base, downside, and lender case outputs, including DSCR, IRR, NPV, payback, debt sizing, and sensitivity tables. Structuring analysis covering debt capacity, repayment sculpting, reserve sizing, and the financing terms a project can realistically support. Concise investment memoranda and lender summaries.

Clear, defensible recommendations on project bankability, including identification of material risks. Qualifications and experience 3 to 5 years of experience in renewable energy, project finance, infrastructure finance, transaction advisory, investment banking support, credit, ratings, or energy finance. Advanced Excel modelling capability, including debt sizing, construction drawdowns, DSRA mechanics, DSCR, IRR, NPV, and multi-case sensitivity analysis, built without reliance on templates.

Direct experience with solar, wind, BESS, hydro, or power-sector projects. Strong commercial judgment and attention to detail, including the ability to assess whether assumptions, cost lines, and coverage ratios are realistic, and to understand the rationale behind a financing structure rather than only its mechanics. Strong written and spoken English, with the ability to explain assumptions, methodology, and conclusions clearly to lenders and investors.

Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, accounting, engineering, energy, mathematics, business, or a related field. A master's degree is preferred but not required. Preferred qualifications Coursework or formal training in project finance, corporate finance, power markets, infrastructure finance, or investment analysis.

CFA, CA, CPA, FRM, or FMVA designation or candidacy. Professional background with a renewable energy developer, solar IPP, BESS developer, EPC contractor, infrastructure advisory firm, Big 4 transaction advisory practice, ratings agency, or project finance modelling firm. Candidates with engineering backgrounds are welcome where accompanied by strong finance, modelling, and commercial analysis skills.

Scope limitations This is not an accounting, audit, bookkeeping, tax, or general FP&A position. Candidates whose experience is limited to those areas, without substantive renewable energy project finance modelling experience, will not be considered. Selection process Shortlisted candidates will complete a modelling assessment covering renewable project assumptions, PPA revenue, EPC and O&M costs, debt sizing, DSCR, DSRA, IRR and NPV, downside case analysis, and a one-page investment recommendation.

Candidates may also be asked to walk through a financial model they have previously built. The role involves access to confidential project, financial, commercial, and counterparty information. Candidates must be willing to execute a confidentiality agreement prior to receiving project materials.

Application requirements Please submit: Curriculum vitae. A redacted sample financial model. A short writing sample or investment memorandum.

A written response (one page maximum) to the following: A 75MW solar project has a 15-year PPA with a state utility rated B+ in a country rated B. The base case DSCR is 1.45x. What would you change about the structure to make this project financeable, and what minimum DSCR would you require?

Please be specific.