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This role offers a unique opportunity to leverage your financial modeling and advisory expertise within the high-stakes world of U.S. energy infrastructure financing. As a Financial Modeling Advisor supporting the U.S. Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office (LPO), you will play a crucial role in evaluating the financial viability of large-scale projects. If you possess a strong command of financial modeling, debt-service analysis, and risk assessment within the energy sector, and you are adept at translating technical assumptions into robust financial evaluations, this position provides a significant platform to contribute to national energy security and economic development through rigorous credit analysis.
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Job Overview: Financial Modeling Advisor | Project Finance & Credit Evaluation Support
This position entails providing Independent Engineering (IE) advisory services as a Financial Modeling Advisor, focusing on Project Finance & Credit Evaluation Support for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) Energy Dominance Financing (EDF) Program. You will be instrumental in supporting attractive debt financing for high-impact, large-scale energy infrastructure projects across the United States. The role requires validating technical assumptions within financial models, conducting sensitivity analyses, and assessing debt-service metrics to produce bankable, technically defensible advisory outputs.
Key Responsibilities & Duties
- Independent Engineering Support: Provide advisory services for the EDF Program, focusing on technical due diligence, credit evaluation, lifecycle monitoring, and assurance activities related to financial modeling.
- Financial Model Review: Analyze and validate financial models, including debt-service projections, scenario analysis, sensitivities, and key assumptions.
- Assumption Validation: Review technical inputs to financial models, such as production, throughput, yield, availability, cost, and schedule data.
- Risk Assessment: Identify financial and technical risks and propose mitigations.
- Deliverable Preparation: Prepare defensible work products, including model audit notes, sensitivity analyses, DSCR analysis, assumption logs, and financing case outputs.
- Stakeholder Coordination: Collaborate with engineering, finance, legal, construction, operations, HSE, and project controls teams to support timely lender and DOE decision-making.
- Location: Remote work within the USA with expected on-site meetings nationwide.
Qualifications
- Experience: 10+ years of relevant engineering, construction, operations, compliance, risk, finance, or energy infrastructure advisory experience, with demonstrated work on oil and gas, power, utilities, or large-scale infrastructure projects for owners, lenders, independent engineers, or federal clients.
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, engineering, accounting, business, infrastructure finance, or a related field. MBA, CFA, PMP, CPA, or project finance credentials are preferred.
Required Skills
- Independent engineering review
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office (LPO) documentation standards
- Technical due diligence and risk assessment
- Financial model review, scenario analysis, sensitivities, assumptions, and debt-service metrics
- Data room review and information request tracking
- Report writing and Excel-based analysis
- Stakeholder coordination and clear presentation of findings
Required Competencies
- Technical judgment and objectivity
- Analytical rigor and attention to detail
- Defensible documentation and client service orientation
- Cross-functional collaboration and issue escalation
- Quality mindset and schedule discipline
- Ability to translate technical evidence into actionable risk, compliance, and financing implications
Ancillary Details
- Role Activities: May include data room reviews, borrower/contractor interviews, site observations, monitoring meetings, risk register updates, CP evidence reviews, draw package checks, issue closure tracking, and preparation of Independent Engineer reports.
- Program Context: Supports the DOE EDF Program, providing financing and lifecycle oversight for large-scale U.S. energy infrastructure projects, including Independent Engineering, technical due diligence, credit evaluation, construction monitoring, and risk management services.
- LPO Function: The DOE Loan Programs Office provides debt financing, loan guarantees, and credit assistance for major energy and infrastructure projects, evaluating them from technical, financial, commercial, and operational perspectives.
- Service Area: Independent Engineering (IE) Advisory Services are provided for complex energy projects, covering Upstream, Midstream, Downstream Oil & Gas, and Power & Utilities sectors.
Other Details
- NAICS Code: 541330 Engineering Services.
- Work Output: Must be independent, traceable, suitable for lender review, and aligned with technical due diligence, construction monitoring, EPC oversight, completion certification, operations monitoring, and long-term debt-service viability assessment needs.
Additional Information
- Commitment: Employees must achieve annual goals aligned with ProSidian's Eight Global Competencies and support business development efforts.
- ProSidian Global Competencies: Personal Effectiveness, Continuous Learning, Leadership, Client Service, Business Management, Business Development, Technical Expertise, Innovation & Knowledge Sharing.
- Business Tools Proficiency: Advanced skills in Microsoft Office (Excel, Access, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word), Adobe Acrobat, data analytics tools, and Visio are expected.
- Work Environment: Commitment to working with intelligent, interesting people from diverse backgrounds to solve significant challenges.