Senior Project Finance Analyst in Rome, Roma at Atlantica

Financial Modelling and Valuation

• Build, maintain and audit financial models for projects in development, construction and operation across PV, BESS and wind, from project-level to SPV and portfolio level.
• Model technology-specific revenue and cost drivers: merchant and PPA prices, capture-price and curtailment assumptions for PV and wind; capacity-market, MACSE and arbitrage/ancillary revenues, degradation and augmentation for BESS.
• Run sensitivity and scenario analyses (energy prices, production, capex, opex, financing terms) and produce investment papers and IRR/NPV/payback analysis for management and the Investment Committee.
• Maintain budgets, business plans and long-term forecasts for Italian assets in coordination with the Asset Manager.
  

M&A and Transaction Execution

• Support the acquisition of authorised development projects and SPVs: valuation, bid preparation, purchase price mechanics, adjustments and earn-outs.
• Coordinate financial due diligence with advisors and review key findings, including permits, grid connection, land and contractual risk with a financial impact.
• Support negotiation of SPA and related agreements from a financial standpoint, together with Legal.
• Manage the closing and post-closing financial workstreams, and the integration of acquired SPVs into Group models and reporting.
  

Project Financing and Banking Relationships

• Structure and execute project-finance, construction and refinancing transactions for PV, BESS and wind assets.
• Prepare financing materials and lender models; manage the bank selection process, term-sheet comparison and negotiation of key financial terms (margin, gearing, tenor, DSCR, reserve accounts, hedging, guarantees).
• Manage relationships with Italian and international banks, institutional lenders and financial advisors, and coordinate lenders' technical, legal and model auditors.
• Support drawdown, conditions-precedent and covenant calculations during construction and operation, in coordination with Group Finance.
  

Market Intelligence and Support to Group

• Monitor Italian market, regulatory and financing trends (energy prices, auction and capacity schemes, tax and incentive rules, bank appetite and pricing) and translate them into model assumptions.
• Provide financial inputs to Group Finance for consolidation, audit and tax needs; treasury, accounting and statutory filings remain with the Spanish team.

• Competitive remuneration package.
• Growth opportunities in a promising and booming industry.
• A highly committed, dynamic, and challenging environment.
• International development opportunities.