Structured Finance Sr Associate

Responsibilities

• Translate financing objectives into clear analyses, recommendations, timelines, and deliverables.
• Support senior transactors on complex financings, including structuring, documentation, diligence, negotiation, and closing.
• Lead analysis, diligence, process tracking, and execution workstreams for financing transactions.
• Own transaction models, including debt sizing, cash-flow waterfalls, sensitivities, covenant analysis, and scenario evaluation.
• Work directly with internal stakeholders, banks, investors, counsel, advisors, and other counterparties.
• Review transaction documentation and help ensure commercial, financial, and diligence details are reflected accurately.
• Manage high-volume, detail-intensive workstreams in a lean team environment.
• Help develop repeatable tools, processes, and analytical infrastructure as the capital markets function scales.

Requirements

• At least 4-6 years of directly relevant experience in project finance, structured finance, infrastructure finance, private equity, or a closely related field.
• Deep financial modeling capability, including debt sizing, cash-flow waterfalls, sensitivities, covenant analysis, and scenario evaluation.
• Meaningful involvement in financings that reached close, with a clear understanding of process, diligence, and documentation.
• Experience at a bank, private equity or infrastructure investment firm, data center developer, infrastructure operator, or specialist advisory firm.
• The ability to own workstreams independently, rather than only producing analysis on instruction.
• Strong attention to detail and comfort operating in high-intensity transaction environments.
• The maturity to interact directly with senior internal stakeholders and external counterparties.

Nice-to-Haves

• Training under a well-regarded infrastructure or project finance group, platform, or senior leader.
• Exposure to more than one financing product or capital source.
• Experience in data centers, digital infrastructure, power, energy transition, or other capital-intensive infrastructure sectors.
• Strong learning velocity and willingness to work without rigid role boundaries.
• Willingness to work from San Francisco.