About the role
ROLE OVERVIEW
Pivot Energy is seeking a highly motivated and analytical Director to lead our Financial Modeling & Analysis team. The FM&A team provides project-level financials for Pivot’s pipeline across Origination, Development, and Execution, delivering actionable insights that enable data-driven decisions aligned with company strategy. The team ensures projects meet economic requirements and conform to Pivot’s financial standards, while leading Investment Committee meetings and creating accessible resources and dashboards to communicate project data and returns across the organization. As part of the broader Finance team, FM&A works closely with Development and Origination teams across the company, as well as both the Project Finance and Capital Markets teams to ensure financial model and assumption alignment from origination through financing execution. The team is responsible for managing the quality of project data assumptions and providing analysis on all inputs in the financial model to ensure accuracy and transparency of financial outputs. The group also manages the Project Economic Lifecycle (PEL) Gating process, ensuring resources are invested optimally throughout the pipeline and over the course of a project’s lifecycle.
This role is critical in leading the team in financial evaluation, modeling, and economic decision making of our solar and energy storage projects. The ideal candidate has strong leadership, analytical, and advanced financial modeling skills, so that they can lead the team to provide rigorous financial analysis and actionable insights to empower teams across the business to make data-driven choices aligned with company strategy.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Ensure the FM&A team members are trained and maintain technical expertise in project modeling to support Origination, Development, Execution, and Financing efforts. This includes but is not limited to project-level modeling project components for solar, storage, and solar + storage projects such as FTM / BTM, single offtake / multi offtake, leased / owned sites, RECs via utility program / RECs via corporate / RECs via compliance market, etc.
- Guide the FM&A team to ensure standardization and quality control across project modelers while minimizing project modeling churn, directing the team with a balance of specialization and enhancing skills across the team;
- Establish Pivot underwriting curves and manage Pivot’s forward curves in coordination with the SVP of Corporate Development;
- Accountable for reliability, quality and readiness of project financial pro forma models, ensuring accuracy of all project level data for economic decision making, financing, etc.; this includes but is not limited to control of data quality and aligning tax and incentive structures with compliance and cross-departmental resources. This tool must be regularly updated with market, finance, and project level data and is a critical resource for economic decision making on a project and portfolio level.
- Lead ownership and development of the comprehensive financial pro forma and pricing model, including building new product and financing structures, integrating data through advanced modeling and macros, enabling efficient scenario and sensitivity analyses, and incorporating feedback loops from project finance and capital management to continuously refine full life cycle cost assessments
- Work with other Finance team leads to drive the development and integration of cross-functional financial modeling workflows across FM&A, Project Finance, Capital Markets, and FP&A to reduce fragmentation, improve data flow, and enable dynamic, consistent forecasting tools that strengthen investment decisions and business-level financial insight.
- Collaborate with the VP of Corporate Finance, SVP of Project Finance & Capital Markets and Chief Financial Officer to elevate the sophistication of economic decision making within Investment Committee and the Project Economic Lifecycle to enable assessment beyond project level analysis including but not limited to advanced scenario and sensitivity analyses, broader integration with capital planning, and capital efficiency metrics. Lead weekly Investment Committee meetings, accountable for all materials, decision capture, and IC framework and operations.
