Capital Markets Associate

Do you want to be a part of the clean energy movement? Are you passionate about improving our environment for this generation and those to follow? Are you ready to take on new challenges and collaborate with a future-focused team leading the way into new markets? Join Nexamp!

This is where you can learn from industry leaders and become one yourself. It's fast-paced, mission-based work that challenges the status quo. Be on the team that's changing the world.

What we’re looking for:

Nexamp is looking to hire a Capital Markets Associate to join it's Capital Markets team. You will play a central role in evaluating, structuring, executing, and managing financing transactions across Nexamp’s distributed generation (“DG”) and utility-scale project portfolios. In this role, you will role will be responsible for advanced financial modeling, transaction execution, cross-functional coordination, financing relationship management, and ongoing project finance support.

We are accepting candidates across our hub offices of Chicago, IL, and Boston, MA, where you will be hybrid. You will report to the Director, Capital Markets.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the development, maintenance, and review of complex project-level and portfolio-level financial models for DG and utility-scale projects throughout the project lifecycle, including acquisition, development, financing, construction, and operations.
• Evaluate and model debt, tax equity, tax credit transfer, and other structured financing alternatives, including complex ownership, partnership, and capital structures.
• Lead defined workstreams in the structuring, negotiation, and execution of financing transactions for individual projects and project portfolios, working under the direction of senior Capital Markets and Project Finance leadership.
• Own transaction execution plans, closing and funding checklists, internal workstreams, and deliverable tracking, coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to identify and resolve issues and keep transactions on schedule.
• Prepare and review transaction presentations, financing summaries, investment memoranda, and internal approval materials for senior management, investment committees, financing counterparties, and other stakeholders.
• Manage key aspects of existing financing facilities, including lender and investor reporting, covenant compliance, consent and waiver requests, financial model updates, and coordination with financing counterparties

What you’ll bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
• At least 3 years of relevant experience in project finance, capital markets, investment banking, renewable energy finance, infrastructure finance, private equity, or a related field.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling expertise, including the ability to build, modify, review, and audit complex project-level and portfolio-level models, scenario analysis, debt sizing, returns.
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and experience preparing transaction presentations, investment committee materials, financing recommendations, and executive-level summaries.
• Strong understanding of project finance principles, including cash flow waterfalls, debt service coverage ratios, loan amortization, tax benefits, capital accounts, financing fees, and project or investor return metrics.
• Direct experience financing distributed generation, community solar, utility-scale solar, energy storage, or other renewable energy assets preferred.
• Knowledge of federal renewable energy tax incentives, including the Investment Tax Credit, Production Tax Credit, tax credit transferability, prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements, domestic content, and energy community adders preferred.
• Commitment to Nexamp's mission and have a passion for solving tomorrow's climate crisis today.
• Demonstrated experience in effectively communicating information, ideas, and perspectives with people inside and beyond your organization.
• Experience in showcasing initiative to make improvements to current work, processes, products, and services across the organization. We value accountability and an ownership mentality.
• Ability to ask appropriate questions, analyze data, identify the root causes of problems, and present creative solutions.
• Expertise in building strong internal and external relationships with customers and stakeholders, instilling trust and loyalty across the industry.
• Eagerness to develop a fundamental understanding of how Nexamp operates and then apply that knowledge effectively to inform business decisions.

At Nexamp, our mission is to build the future of energy so it is clean, simple, and accessible for all. We are committed to providing a work environment free from discrimination. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against applicants on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. By encouraging a culture where ideas and decisions come from all people, we believe it will help us grow, innovate, and be a part of environmental and social change.

You’ll love working here because:

This includes our competitive compensation package; a 401(k) employer-match; health, dental, and vision insurance starting day one; flexible paid time off and holiday PTO; commuter benefits, and cell phone reimbursement. We have headquarters in Boston, MA and Chicago, IL, in addition to growing offices nationwide. We provide healthy snacks, coffee, service days and other volunteer opportunities, company outings, and more!

Compensation

The reasonably estimated salary for this role at Nexamp ranges from $99,000 - $114,000. In addition to base salary, the competitive compensation package may include, depending on the role, participation in an incentive program linked to performance (for example, annual bonus programs based on individual and company performance, non-annual sales incentive plans, or other non-annual incentive plans). Additionally, you may be eligible to participate in the Company’s stock option plan. Actual base salary may vary based upon, but is not limited to, skills and qualifications, internal equity, performance, and geographic location.