Junior Renewable Energy System Finance Specialist

Most days involve financial modeling, due diligence support, and incentive-program analysis. You'll often build or extend project finance models for specific assets, layering in power purchase agreements, ITC or PTC tax credits, depreciation benefits, debt schedules, and operating assumptions. Senior team members tend to own commercial structuring; you handle the supporting analysis and updates as assumptions evolve.

What's harder than people expect is how much the work hinges on the policy environment — federal credits, state RPS programs, utility tariffs, and tax law shifts all change deal economics meaningfully. Variance is real between developer-side work (entrepreneurial, deal-driven), lender or tax-equity work (rigorous diligence, structured products), and consulting or advisory (modeling for multiple clients). Excel skills compound fast.

People who tend to thrive here are strong with models, comfortable with energy and policy detail, and motivated by mission-aligned finance. If you want pure trading or capital markets work, the niche industry focus can feel constraining. If you find satisfaction in doing finance that helps actual clean-energy projects get built, the work tends to be growing in demand and offers durable mission alignment alongside real career progression.