Project Financial Analyst
Sylvera
IT, Accounting & Finance
London, UK
Posted on Tuesday, March 12, 2024
What will I be doing? 👩💻👨💻
Having found an early product-market fit in a nascent, rapidly growing space, we’re scaling our Ratings Team at pace to support our upstream carbon assessments. We’re looking for a mission-driven senior analyst to conduct upstream carbon project assessments and help build our expert assessment methodologies. The Senior Financial Analyst will be devoted to ensuring our carbon project assessments are built on robust and comprehensive data and analysis. It’s a critical role at the heart of our business - you’ll work within a large team of multidisciplinary analysts, working together to leverage all the skills and insights necessary to drive value for our customers. You will report to a Lead Analyst.
Specific responsibilities will include:
- Conducting carbon project financial assessments, providing deep due diligence on carbon projects laser-focused on providing value to the customer through timely and robust data and insights
- Assessing projects execution risk, financial feasibility, and financial additionality
- Assess upstream and early stage carbon projects that are not yet issuing credits
- Contributing towards the carbon project assessment process improvement; ensuring a balance of materiality, scalability, interpretability and comparability across our assessment methodologies
- Writing reports on projects quality and risk
- Collaborating across the Ratings Department and with other internal data teams to ensure that knowledge is shared and approaches are challenged with empathy and shared understanding
- Ensuring that critical quality assurance processes are upheld to maintain our status as the markets most trusted data provider with our carbon project assessments
- Promote and uphold best practices in the team, including keeping customer value at the heart of what we do
- Conduct quantitative and qualitative research, such as assessing project documentation, third party data, news reports and modelling formulas
We’re looking for someone who: 🧠💚
- Has 2-3 years of experience in project finance or project risk at an investment bank, project developer, consulting firm, ratings agency, or similar institution
- Has experience assessing project finance risk and project risk assessment
- Has deep critical thinking skills and ability to apply logical principles in order to quickly determine actionable solution pathways to complex problems
- Excellent written communication and collaboration skills
- Fast learner, self-starter, intellectually curious, quantitative and ready to get up-to-speed in a complex and technical domain
- Has knowledge of early stage infrastructure projects
- Has a basic knowledge of carbon offsets or carbon markets - or a clear willingness to learn
- Takes initiative, excellent time-management skills, and adapts easily to change especially when operating toward deadlines
- Is a self-starter who thrives in constantly evolving environments, ideally with early-stage experience
