Senior Analyst, Project Preparation Facilities

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About the Organization

Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) is a global research and advisory organization in climate action with specific focus on tracking and enabling financial flows into climate-positive sectors. Headquartered in San Francisco, CPI works in places that provide the most promising potential for climate action, including Brazil, Europe, India, Indonesia, Kenya and the United States.

CPI works in various domains of climate including energy transition, industrial decarbonization, agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU), adaptation and resilience and green finance.

Job Description

The Senior Analyst, reporting directly to the Senior Program Manager, would be a pivotal part of the project preparation facilities (PPF) team within CPI. This position combines financial acumen and analytical prowess with a zest for driving climate impact. The ideal candidate will bring prior experience related to financial analysis, sectoral understanding of energy and technology, and deal closure.

Job Responsibilities

Outreach

• Anchoring or assisting in market outreach across project developers and enterprises, industry associations, and ecosystem enablers in clean energy on the one hand and investors, lenders, and climate funds on the other.
• Prepare or update program collaterals in coordination with the communications team; convene seminars, webinars, and workshops for the decentralized renewable industry.

Applicant Evaluation

• Following up with applicants to ensure timely receipt of proposals and information, conducting business, environmental, and financial analysis, and conducting site visits
• Writing appraisal reports/ memos incorporating all the facets of a case for presenting to the Advisory Committee

Transaction Advisory/Contract Management

• Finalizing scope of work for service providers with awardees and list and schedule of deliverables
• Engaging with the awardees over the process of selecting service providers, which could include their floating request for proposals (RFPs) and bid processing as per CPI templates
• Managing contracts, monitoring submission of deliverables by selected service providers, and interacting with Finance/ Accounts for grant disbursement
• Coordinating with beneficiaries on their impact self-reporting initiatives, collating individual reports for overall program reporting to the funder as per pre-determined KPIs for CPI.

Deal Closures

• Proactively reaching out to potential investors/lenders relevant to every beneficiary at an early stage, participating in deal negotiations with them, along with or on behalf of the grant awardee
• Complementing efforts of assigned financial advisors wherever needed
• Structuring and closing term sheets on behalf of the grant awardee

Structuring new PPFs

• Assisting in preparing the Operations Manual, Appraisal Template, KPI Reporting Format, and other documents in line with funders’ requirements
• Interacting effectively with partner organizations on knowledge sharing, relevant capacity building, and report preparation and submission.

Other roles

• Writing concept notes and pitch decks/presentations for innovative programs and reaching out to funders
• Preparing highly analytical thematic reports on select aspects of climate/climate finance like DRE, climate-smart agriculture, etc.
• Engaging with other stakeholders like financiers, industry, multilateral development banks (MDBs), Government institutions, funders, advisory agencies, etc. in possible areas of collaboration

Education Qualification/Required Skills & Experience

• The candidate should have a commitment to CPI’s mission and values and a passion for addressing climate change-related policy and finance issues. S/he should also have at least an active interest in working in the impact space. Besides, s/he should have the following credentials.
• A Post-Graduate in Management/Finance or Chartered Accountant or Chartered Financial Analyst or an equivalent experience
• Post-qualification experience of 5-8 years in relevant financial services, e.g., investment banking, private equity, transaction advisory, corporate finance, credit rating, and corporate banking.
• Proficiency in preparing financial projection models and deriving relevant ratios and valuation metrics

Desirable

• Demonstrated experience in closing term sheets from either the buy-side or sell-side as part of investment banks, multilateral development banks (MDBs)/ development financial institutions (DFIs), or acquirer/ acquiree entities

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