Senior Commercial Associate (Director)

⚡ You will play an important role in:

Your role and responsibilities will be as follows: 

• Oversee the preparation and negotiation of financial agreements, such as power purchase agreements (PPAs), off-take agreements, and investment term sheets.
• Structure and negotiate joint ventures and partnerships.
• Analyse offtake opportunities and inform bid strategy.

·       Utilize financial modeling tools to assess renewable energy projects and complete the initial project models following Boralex’s investment criteria to provide guidance to management.

·       Work with analysts to manage financial models for all stages of greenfield development assets, including early-stage development, supporting offtake bidding and structuring, financing, and construction-related matters.

• Prepare comprehensive business cases for internal and external stakeholders, including executive leadership and potential project partners.
• Prepare materials for Investment Committee review and present results to senior management.

·       Collaborate and work closely with subject matter experts (including finance, accounting, tax, engineering, construction, legal and operations) as part of an interdisciplinary team to ensure that the project model properly reflects development findings and is up to date and accurate for bids, strategic analysis, and financing processes.

·       Adapt existing financial models to project-specific requirements and structures.

·       Perform market analysis on macroeconomic and regional trends, including impacts of regulatory reforms, market rules, long term energy prices, interest rate environment, and their effect on the viability of the projects.

·       Support bid submissions, execution, and closings.

 💡 To succeed in this position, you need: 

• Bachelor’s degree. Master’s degree preferred (Finance or MBA).
• 4 to 8 years of experience in power, utilities, renewable energy, M&A or project finance.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen.
• A keen interest in renewable energy trends and developments in North America.
• Strong proficiency in English (spoken and written) and excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Strong negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to present complex, technical topics to internal and external audiences of various sizes and knowledge levels.
• Comfortable manipulating existing financial models and adapt them to specific projects and structures.
• Experience working on large projects with multiple stakeholders on tight timelines.
• Ability and desire to learn and take on responsibility quickly.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.).
• Self-sufficient and attentive to detail.
• Meticulous, versatile, creative, and resourceful.
• Mindful of confidentiality requirements and corporate image.