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.
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PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Manage the FM&A team, ensuring a centralized process is managed for Pivot to access modeling support and up-to-date financial returns and project level data is readily accessible;
- 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.
REQUIRED COMPETENCIES
- 7+ years experience with solar energy financial modeling
- Experience in project finance models including modeling complex debt and tax structures
- High degree of attention to detail and strong ability to multi-task
- Proven success in developing teams within a growing company environment
- Excellent leadership, organizational, and communication skills
- Ability to clearly and concisely present written and verbal information to senior leadership
PREFERRED COMPETENCIES
- High degree of proficiency with data transformation and visualization software (Power BI, Power Query)
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$140,000 - $185,000 a year
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
The estimated base salary range for this position is $140,000-$185,000 depending on relevant experience.
Pivot Energy is dedicated to providing a great work experience for all employees, placing an emphasis on company culture, and a focus on our people. To that end, Pivot offers an outstanding benefits package that includes:
Excellent health/dental/vision insurance benefits with up to 100% of premiums covered by the company
Four weeks of vacation plus employment milestone bonus vacations
Company paid life insurance and short- & long-term disability coverage
Generous parental leave
401(k) matching (after vesting period)
Work from home stipend for new employees
Public transit reimbursement
PTO for volunteering in the community
Charitable donation matching up to $500/year
Professional development and educational reimbursements
A complete list of all the benefits Pivot offers may be provided upon request.
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Recruitment Agency Notice:
We appreciate your interest in partnering with us; however, we are not seeking recruitment agency support for this role.
ABOUT PIVOT
Pivot Energy is a national renewable energy provider that develops, finances, builds, owns, and manages solar and energy storage projects that help decarbonize our nation’s electricity, increase equitable access to clean energy for local communities, and provide real cost-savings to American businesses and
families.
We are fiercely dedicated to accelerating the rapid transition taking place in the energy industry to a more decentralized and cleaner approach to power generation. We are committed to positively contributing to the local communities and people we serve with more than clean energy. We believe global warming poses an existential threat to our planet and that we have a responsibility to help mitigate the threat. Our portfolio includes projects that reduce energy burden for income-limited families, create workforce pathways for under-represented groups within the solar industry, and include robust community investment opportunities.
As a Certified B Corporation and one of Denver’s “Best Places to Work”, we believe that company success is driven by a healthy environment, thriving society, and workplace where all individuals are respected. We evaluate every internal decision on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors to determine if our actions will result in a net positive impact on the community, our employees, customers, shareholders, and the environment. Learn more in our annual ESG Report.
At Pivot, our core values guide our work internally and externally:
·Impact – We hold ourselves accountable to having a measurable impact on our people, communities, and the planet
·Balance – Put family first; work hard/have fun
·Determination – Find ways to be successful no matter how difficult the challenge
·Professionalism – Impress everyone we touch, be a team player
·Honesty – Be truthful and transparent, externally and internally
·Kindness – Create an environment where kindness, empathy, and vulnerability are embraced
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION and JUSTICE STATEMENT
At Pivot, we are proactively developing and maintaining an inclusive culture, rooted in mutual respect, that supports a workforce of different generations, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, ability statuses, religions, and cultures to work collaboratively together for greater impact. We seek to build a team that invests in relationship building, celebrates each other’s successes, and makes space for the unique contributions and working styles people bring into Pivot.
Pivot invests in company-wide trainings, assessments, and programs to advance internal inclusion and equity practices, such as employee allyship building, cross-cultural communications, and equitable hiring and management protocols to increasingly recognize bias and ensure mutual respect and belonging.
EEO STATEMENT
Pivot Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its workforce. We actively work to cultivate an inclusive culture that welcomes, empowers, and enables equitable career growth for employees regardless of background.
