Senior Business and Economics Principal

About the Role

Our client is seeking a Senior Business and Economics Principal to support the Director forPrivate Capital Engagement within DASN (DIB). You will serve as a senior financial subject-matter expert on how private capital can be brought to bear on the shipyards, ports, factories, energy systems, and logistics networks that support defense production. Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility preferred; an active Secret clearance will be considered.The anchor initiative is helping stand up the nation's fifth public shipyard, a major industrial complex for aircraft carriers and submarines.

The Navy intends to pursue it as apublic-private partnership, combining government capital with private capital, potentiallyincluding infrastructure-focused investors such as private equity firms and large assetmanagers, in any number of configurations. Your job is to model and defend the options,structure the financial case for investment, and help decide how government and privatecapital should come together.This seat is outward facing.

Expect to support investor and industry meetings, site visits, technical reviews, and executive engagements, alongside time-sensitive taskers, and tot urn your analysis into decision-ready products for Navy, Department of War, industry, investor, utility, and interagency audiences.

Responsibilities

• Model, review, and defend public-private financing structures for the fifth public shipyard and other industrial-base investments, including cost-sharing and capital-mix options.
• Conduct project-finance, infrastructure, energy, market, and investment analysis forDASN (DIB) priorities.
• Build, document, and update transparent, auditable project-finance models, withdisciplined version control as structures and assumptions evolve.
• Model construction and operating cash flows, capex, opex, debt sizing and sculpting,coverage ratios, repayment profiles, tariffs, offtake, returns, and downside scenarios.
• Analyze nonrecourse and limited-recourse financing, debt capacity, capital structures,and counterparty and market risk.
• Research market participants, including infrastructure investors, developers, utilities,lenders, shipyards, and contractors.
• Produce business cases, cost-benefit analyses, market assessments, executive materials,and draft recommendations.
• Coordinate with DASN (DIB), ASN (RD&A), Department of the Navy acquisition organizations, naval systems commands, and interagency stakeholders, and support investor and industry engagements.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, engineering, business, public policy, energy, infrastructure, operations, or a related field.

Required Skills

• 7 or more years of progressively responsible experience in infrastructure finance,energy markets, project finance, industrial economics, consulting, corporate strategy, orcapital-project development.
• Direct experience with infrastructure financings, energy transactions, project financings,public-private partnerships, or facility recapitalization.
• Analyzing capital structures, debt capacity, and nonrecourse and limited-recoursefinancing.
• Financial Modeling
• Developing, reviewing, or auditing project-finance models, including debt sizing,coverage analysis, and sensitivity and scenario analysis.
• The ability to build, audit, and defend complex models from a blank workbook, and tomanage them through many iterations.
• Assessing development, construction, financing, operational, market, regulatory,supply-chain, and counterparty risk.
• Executive Communication
• Explaining complex financial concepts clearly to nonfinancial senior stakeholders.
• Representing an analysis credibly in front of investors, industry executives, andgovernment leaders.

Preferred Skills

• Additional Experience (Preferred)
• Relationships with infrastructure investors, lenders, or utilities (helpful, not required).
• Experience with federal financing, development finance, or industrial-base investment programs.

Pay range and compensation package

• Ownership: Our client is 100% employee-owned. The ESOP is fully company-funded andgrants shares each year that vest over time.
• Retirement: 401(k) with an immediately vested Safe Harbor match of up to 4% of pay,plus free financial planning.
• Health: Cigna medical, dental, and vision from the first of the month after hire, with anHSA option.
• Time off: PTO for vacation, illness for self or a family member, emergencies, or otherpersonal leave. Employees are eligible for 14 days (112 hours) of PTO per calendar year,with up to 80 hours of unused time eligible to roll over into the following year. PTOaccruals increase with years of service.
• Growth: Up to $5,250 per year for degrees, certifications, and training after one year.
• Protection: Company-paid life, AD&D, and short-term disability insurance.