MUST HAVE EXPERIENCE WORKING FOR A RENEWABLE ENERGY IPP/DEVELOPER.
The Company
Our client is a private equity-backed independent power producer developing and operating utility-scale renewable energy projects across North America. The company is at an early stage of growth and is building the financial infrastructure, planning capabilities, and development portfolio required to scale.
The Role
The Vice President of Finance will serve as the company’s senior internal finance leader, with primary responsibility for FP&A, development capital planning, liquidity, and financial reporting.
A key part of the role will be partnering with Development and leadership to determine how capital is allocated across the project portfolio. This includes forecasting development spend, understanding contractual commitments, evaluating competing project needs, and helping leadership decide where capital should be accelerated, deferred, or reallocated.
The VP will also oversee an outsourced accounting function and maintain internal ownership of financial reporting, controls, treasury, and financial governance.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and management reporting.
- Own development spend forecasting and support portfolio-level capital allocation decisions.
- Track committed and uncommitted project spend and future contractual obligations.
- Lead cash forecasting, liquidity planning, and capital-call forecasting.
- Partner closely with Development and Project Finance on project economics and capital requirements.
- Oversee outsourced accounting and review financial statements and reporting.
- Build and improve finance systems, processes, reporting, and controls as the company scales.
- Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive finance experience, ideally across FP&A, corporate finance, or development finance.
- Direct experience within a utility-scale renewable developer, IPP, power company, or similar infrastructure business.
- Strong experience with development budgeting, capital planning, project-spend forecasting, and capital allocation.
- Experience with treasury, liquidity forecasting, and capital calls.
- Solid accounting foundation with the ability to oversee U.S. GAAP reporting and external accounting providers.
- Experience working with Development, Project Finance, and senior leadership.
- Strong financial modeling, scenario analysis, and executive reporting capabilities.
- Comfortable operating independently and hands-on within a lean, growing organization.
- CPA, accounting/audit background, or prior technical accounting experience is preferred.