About Apex
Founded in 2009, Apex Clean Energy is an independent renewable energy company focused on bringing utility-scale generation facilities to market, from site origination and financing to turnkey construction and long-term asset management. With a team of over 200 professionals and the nation’s largest wind energy project portfolio, Apex is a leader in the transition to a clean energy future. For more information, visit www.apexcleanenergy.com.
Apex strives to excel in every phase of project realization. Our mission-driven team seeks determined, resolute individuals who strive to innovate and go above the call of duty, and who will relentlessly do their part to help accelerate the shift to America’s clean energy future.
Role Overview
Apex Clean Energy is seeking an FP&A Analyst to join our Corporate Finance team. In this role, you will work closely with Apex’s FP&A Manager to support our integral financial reporting and forecasting functions, driving financial success and responsibility at both the project and corporate level.
This position will be working to forecast all relevant financial metrics of the business including KPIs, working capital, and all relevant financial information. This position will also be working to aggregate the development spend across the entire Apex Clean Energy portfolio to drive clarity around our investments across various projects, scopes of work, and regions. This position will be responsible for aggregating, analyzing, and presenting relevant and pertinent development and corporate overhead financial data to inform and educate stakeholders regarding project-level investments. In addition, this position will utilize data to forecast project spends. Our ideal candidate will be comfortable utilizing data to depict clear stories to senior-level stakeholders to educate, inform, and spur conversations about best practices.
In addition, this position will be interfacing and collaborating extensively with our development team and provide quality control for the project budgets; ensuring accuracy and timeliness. Our ideal candidate will be nimble and willing to engage in a dynamic budgeting exercise for intricate and large-scale project development scopes of work.
A successful candidate must demonstrate attention to detail and have excellent financial forecasting skills. Our ideal candidate is an energetic self-starter who is looking to grow quickly, excited by the opportunity to join a dynamic team in a relatively new function and motivated to take on more responsibility as financial and business skills improve. The FP&A Analyst position requires equally excellent communication and technical skills as well as the ability to work well under pressure, multitask, and be flexible about shifting priorities. A passion for renewable energy is a must.
Hours: Full Time
Department: Corporate Finance
Travel: 0%
Primary Responsibilities
· Generate and present monthly and quarterly financial reports for management
· Support Senior Management Team and Departments heads with in-depth financial analysis
· Maintain department budgets, report BVA’s.
· Debt reporting, covenant analysis, forecasted sensitivities
· Assist in maintaining and improving all forecasts and modeling tools
· Work with developers to continually update and maintain accurate project level development budgets
· Ad-hoc reporting
· Obtain constant updates to all necessary FP&A model inputs, including project sale assumptions, negotiations, security obligations, interconnection timing, business development timing, and large scale spends
· Maintain latest versions of near-term working capital forecast and long-term Apex financial model.
· Improve existing models for added sensitivity functionality, forward trends, additional metrics.
· Work with Corporate Marketing and Communications to create consistent and branded deliverables
· Coordinate with developers to refine and consolidate development budgets, ensuring that spend assumptions and timing aligns with commercial timing/updates.
Success Profile
To succeed as a FP&A Analyst at Apex Clean Energy, you’ll need to excel within the following criteria:
· Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, general business, accounting or related
· At least 2 years professional experience with financial forecasting, corporate modeling, and/or general financial analysis
· Exceptional knowledge of Excel; experience working with databases and pivot tables
· Demonstrable experience aggregating, analyzing, and presenting complex data in a digestible and concise format
· Experience creating professional quality on brand deliverables in PowerPoint.
· Working knowledge of financial modeling skills in Excel
· Familiarity with Microsoft Dynamics SL preferred
· Outstanding organizational and project management skills, attention to detail, and ability to meet simultaneous deadlines
· Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
· Proven ability to take initiative, be responsible for outcomes, and follow through
· Creative, outside-the-box thinking and willingness to operate in a nimble, flexible environment
· Proven ability to work both collaboratively and independently
· Work from our headquarters in Charlottesville, VA (post-COVID)