29 Aug
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Staten India
|
Delhi
29 Aug
Staten India
Delhi
Key Responsibilities
1. Asset Financial Management
- Own the financial performance of the assigned renewable energy portfolio.
- Prepare and monitor asset-level P&L; statements, budgets, forecasts, cash-flow statements, and variance analysis.
- Track revenue, operating expenses, CAPEX, working capital, debt service, taxes, insurance, and other financial obligations.
- Analyze actual performance against budget, business plan, PPA assumptions, and financial model.
- Identify opportunities to improve asset profitability and cash generation.
- Develop monthly, quarterly, and annual financial performance reports for management and investors.
2. Debt & Project Finance Management
- Manage financial obligations associated with project debt, including:
- Principal repayments
- Interest payments
- Debt service schedules
- DSCR monitoring
- Reserve accounts
- Financial covenants
- Lender reporting
- Review financing agreements and monitor compliance with debt covenants.
- Coordinate with banks, lenders, financial institutions, and investors.
- Monitor refinancing opportunities and evaluate refinancing impacts on project returns.
- Identify potential covenant breaches and develop mitigation plans.
- Maintain accurate debt schedules and financial models.
3. Revenue & Generation Management
- Monitor plant generation and revenue against the approved business plan and PPA assumptions.
- Analyze the financial impact of:
- Generation underperformance
- Plant availability
- Curtailment
- Degradation
- Grid outages
- PPA performance
- REC revenue
- Energy pricing
- O&M; costs
- Work closely with technical/O&M; teams to quantify the financial impact of operational issues.
- Develop revenue-loss and underperformance calculations.
- Support recovery of damages, insurance claims, liquidated damages, and contractual compensation.
4. P&L; and Financial Performance
- Prepare and maintain project-level and portfolio-level Profit & Loss statements.
- Monitor
- Revenue
- EBITDA
- Operating expenses
- Financing costs
- Depreciation
- Taxes
- Net income
- Free cash flow
- Perform monthly financial close and variance analysis.
- Explain material deviations from budget and forecast.
- Develop corrective action plans for underperforming assets.
5.
Financial Modeling & Investment Analysis The candidate must be highly proficient in renewable-energy financial modeling and investment analysis.
Responsibilities include
- Develop and maintain project financial models.
- Calculate and analyze
- IRR
- Project IRR
- Equity IRR
- NPV
- NPFA / Net Present Financial Analysis, where applicable
- Payback period
- DSCR
- EBITDA
- Cash-on-cash return
- Debt/equity ratios
- Perform IRR sensitivity analysis for changes in:
- Generation
- PPA price
- Energy price
- O&M; costs
- CAPEX
- Interest rates
- Debt tenor
- Inflation
- Degradation
- Tax assumptions
- Develop downside, base-case, and upside scenarios.
6. Stress Testing & Risk Analysis
- Conduct financial stress tests for renewable energy projects.
- Develop scenarios such as
- 520% generation reduction
- PPA revenue reduction
- Increased O&M; costs
- Major equipment failure
- Extended outage
- Interest-rate increase
- Debt refinancing risk
- Delayed payments
- Insurance claim delays
- Major CAPEX requirements
- Assess the impact of stress scenarios on:
- IRR
- NPV
- Cash flow
- DSCR
- Debt repayment
- Equity returns
- Project profitability
- Present recommended mitigation strategies to senior management.
7. Legal & Contractual Liability Management
- Review and monitor financial and commercial obligations under:
- PPAs
- EPC contracts
- O&M; agreements
- Loan agreements
- Lease agreements
- Interconnection agreements
- Asset management agreements
- Insurance policies
- Identify potential contractual liabilities and financial exposure.
- Maintain a Contractual Liability & Obligation Register.
- Track
- Liquidated damages
- Performance guarantees
- Warranties
- Indemnification obligations
- Insurance requirements
- Payment obligations
- Default provisions
- Termination provisions
- Coordinate with legal counsel on disputes, claims, notices, settlements, and contractual enforcement.
- Quantify financial exposure arising from legal and contractual disputes.
8. Governance & Compliance
- Establish and maintain solid financial governance across the renewable energy portfolio.
- Ensure compliance with
- Financing agreements
- PPA requirements
- Corporate policies
- Internal controls
- Regulatory requirements
- Investor requirements
- Develop approval matrices and financial controls.
- Ensure proper documentation and audit trails for major financial decisions.
- Support internal, external, lender, investor, and statutory audits.
- Maintain asset-level governance calendars and compliance trackers.
9. Accounts Receivable & Payable
- Monitor customer/PPA receivables and payment collections.
- Track overdue invoices and outstanding balances.
- Coordinate with Accounts/Finance teams to resolve payment issues.
- Monitor vendor payments and contractual payment obligations.
- Prepare aging reports and cash-flow forecasts.
- Escalate material payment delays and credit risks.
10. Asset Performance & Commercial Optimization Work closely with technical Asset Management/O&M; teams to translate operational performance into financial impact.
- Analyze financial impact of plant availability and generation.
- Evaluate major repair versus replacement decisions.
- Assess warranty claims and equipment replacement economics.
- Review O&M; contracts and identify cost-saving opportunities.
- Evaluate CAPEX proposals based on financial return.
- Support decisions relating to inverter replacement, module replacement, major equipment repair, and plant upgrades.
- Develop business cases for asset optimization initiatives.
11. Investor & Management Reporting Prepare high-quality financial reports for:
- Senior Management
- Investment Committee
- Investors
- Lenders
- Banks
- Asset owners
- JV partners
- Board-level stakeholders
Reports should include:
- P&L;
- Cash flow
- Budget vs. actual
- Forecast
- Debt position
- Revenue performance
- Generation performance
- IRR/NPV
- Financial risks
- Contractual liabilities
- Key financial KPIs
- Corrective actions
📌 Financial Planning Analyst (Delhi)
🏢 Staten India
📍 Delhi