Senior Manager, Structured Finance

About the position

Our team at Bloom Energy embraces the unprecedented opportunity to change the way companies utilize energy. Our technology empowers businesses and communities to responsibly take charge of their energy. Our energy platform has three key value propositions: resiliency, sustainability, and predictability. We provide infrastructure that is flexible for the evolving net zero ecosystem. We have deployed more than 30,000 fuel cell modules since our first commercial shipments in 2009, sending energy platforms to data centers, hospitals, manufacturing facilities, biotechnology facilities, major retail stores, financial institutions, telecom facilities, utilities, and other critical infrastructure customers around the world. Our mission is to make clean, reliable energy affordable globally. We never stop striving to improve our technology, to expand and improve our company performance, and to develop and support the many talented employees that serve our mission! We are looking for a Senior Manager, Structured Finance to join our team in one of today's most exciting technologies. This role will report to the VP, Project Finance and is based in San Jose, CA. This is a fully on-site, in office role.

Responsibilities

• Add 'intellectual athlete' capacity to a team that work on deals impacting many parts of Bloom's business.
• Support Bloom's consultative-based selling engagements with customers and financiers, particularly with respect to financial analysis, research and analytics.
• Engage with key stakeholders to move deals forward, including financiers, internal team members, and customers.
• Provide customer-facing consulting to the sales team to understand customer needs as they relate to power purchase agreements ('PPAs') and the associated project financing.
• Assist in 'closing PPAs.'
• Advise on the financial structuring of power purchase agreements.
• Develop collateral for internal and external audiences that effectively tells the Bloom story, as well as how the industry is changing based on Bloom's technology.
• Develop creative ways to meet customer financial and contracting constraints within the parameters of a financeable deal structure.
• Partner with sales and marketing to develop new ways of accessing high spark spread, high credit customers.
• Work with technology partners to increase the addressable for Energy Servers and related services.
• Adapt to the changing needs of the organization to maximize the economic and perceived value of Energy Servers.

Requirements

• Minimum of 6-8 years' experience either in project finance, project development, energy & infrastructure-focused investment banking or strategy.
• Demonstration of successfully closing complex deals.
• Experience at top tier investment banks, private equity shops or consulting firms strongly preferred.
• A background of exceptional academic performance.
• Strong communication skills required.
• Ability to interact with a wide variety of audiences, ranging from customers and investors, to Bloom engineers and operations staff.
• The ability to manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, prepare high quality reports and presentations, and to maintain high levels of quality with a heavy work load.
• Must demonstrate strong personal ethics, the ability to influence and negotiate, and the ability to effectively manage stress and engage in continuous learning.
• High attention to detail.

Nice-to-haves

• MBA degree or graduate engineering degree desired but not required.
• Fun to work with, quick to laugh, willingness to take calculated risks, and a creative problem solver with a 'can-do / failure is not an option' approach to work.

Benefits

• Salary Ranges: $124,800.00 - $218,400.00