Senior Analyst, Financial Modeling & Analysis

Job Description

Job Description

ROLE OVERVIEW

Pivot Energy is seeking a highly motivated and analytical Senior Analyst to join our Financial Modeling & Analysis team. The FM&A team provides project-level financials for Pivot’s pipeline across Origination, Development, and Execution, delivering actionable insights that enable data-driven decisions aligned with the company's strategy. They ensure projects meet economic requirements and conform to Pivot’s financial standards, while leading investment committee meetings and creating accessible resources and dashboards to communicate project data and returns across the organization. As part of the broader Finance team within Finance Operations, FM&A collaborates closely with FP&A as well as Origination, Development, and Execution teams. The group also manages the Project Economic Lifecycle (PEL) Gating process, ensuring resources are invested optimally throughout the pipeline.

This role is critical in supporting the financial evaluation, modeling, and lifecycle management of our solar and energy storage projects. The ideal candidate will be a quantitative problem solver with a strong foundation in finance, excellent Excel skills, and a passion for renewable energy. The FM&A Analyst will assist in financial modeling, market research, and project support to drive project investment decision-making for Pivot's commercial and community solar and energy storage initiatives. In addition to supporting financial modeling and market analysis, this role will play a key part in supporting the FM&A team with managing competing deadlines across the team’s core scopes of project financial modeling and project investment decision-making.

This position is ideal for someone looking to build expertise in clean energy finance, specifically solar and energy storage, quantitative financial analysis, and business-led decision-making while working collaboratively with cross-functional teams. This is a great opportunity for a self-starter who is eager to learn, contribute to a growing company, and play a key role in advancing Pivot Energy's mission.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Financial Modeling & Analysis :
• Responsible for project modeling requests in the FM&A Task Queue, which requires developing and maintaining financial models to evaluate solar project viability, profitability, and investment potential
• Understand the financial impacts of project variables to optimize decision-making and project modeling across the broader finance team
• Provide analytical support to FM&A team members for project decision-making and financial analysis
• Leverage financial modeling expertise and knowledge of DG solar markets to evaluate project sensitivities, run scenario analyses, and assess strategic options, providing insights that support client offerings, business cases, long-term planning, and improved product development and financing strategies
• Stay closely informed and engaged on market strategy and project modeling implications, analyzing impact, and training other FM&A team members as needed;
• Assist in Investment Committee materials and administration as needed
• Data Collection & Management :
• Collaborate with FM&A and FP&A team members as well as other cross-departmental teams to collect and validate data inputs for financial models, ensuring accuracy and consistency
• Provide variance analysis and analytical support to FM&A and FP&A team members
• Project Economic Lifecycle Support :
• Create PEL Stage Gate summaries for projects, ensuring compliance with all requirements from ideation through construction, and maintaining a rigorous approach to evaluation aligned with external financing standards
• Develop tools and processes to standardize and simplify stage gate materials, communication channels, and decision capture;
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the PEL framework, incorporating feedback and best practices
• Documentation :
• Maintain clear and organized records of research, modeling inputs, stage gate materials, and assumptions for future reference
• Market Research :
• Conduct research on solar industry trends, policy changes, and market opportunities, synthesizing findings to inform project strategies

REQUIRED COMPETENCIES

PREFERRED COMPETENCIES

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

The estimated base salary range for this position is $80,000 - $100,000, along with eligibility for the company’s substantial bonus plan, with a target bonus of 30% of annual salary (prorated in the first year based on start date). Compensation will be based on factors such as location, level, job-related knowledge, certifications, skills, and experience.

Pivot Energy is dedicated to providing a great work experience for all employees, placing an emphasis on company culture and a focus on our people. To that end, Pivot offers an outstanding benefits package that includes :

A complete list of all the benefits Pivot offers may be provided upon request.

Recruitment Agency Notice :

We appreciate your interest in partnering with us; however, we are not seeking recruitment agency support for this role.

ABOUT PIVOT

Pivot Energy is a national renewable energy provider that develops, finances, builds, owns, and manages solar and energy storage projects that help decarbonize our nation’s electricity, increase equitable access to clean energy for local communities, and provide real cost-savings to American businesses and

families.

We are fiercely dedicated to accelerating the rapid transition taking place in the energy industry to a more decentralized and cleaner approach to power generation. We are committed to positively contributing to the local communities and people we serve with more than clean energy. We believe global warming poses an existential threat to our planet and that we have a responsibility to help mitigate the threat. Our portfolio includes projects that reduce energy burden for income-limited families, create workforce pathways for under-represented groups within the solar industry, and include robust community investment opportunities.

As a Certified B Corporation and one of Denver’s “Best Places to Work”, we believe that company success is driven by a healthy environment, thriving society, and workplace where all individuals are respected. We evaluate every internal decision on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors to determine if our actions will result in a net positive impact on the community, our employees, customers, shareholders, and the environment. Learn more in our annual ESG Report.

At Pivot, our core values guide our work internally and externally :

DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION and JUSTICE STATEMENT

At Pivot, we are proactively developing and maintaining an inclusive culture, rooted in mutual respect, that supports a workforce of different generations, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, ability statuses, religions, and cultures to work collaboratively together for greater impact. We seek to build a team that invests in relationship building, celebrates each other’s successes, and makes space for the unique contributions and working styles people bring into Pivot.

Pivot invests in company-wide trainings, assessments, and programs to advance internal inclusion and equity practices, such as employee allyship building, cross-cultural communications, and equitable hiring and management protocols to increasingly recognize bias and ensure mutual respect and belonging.

EEO STATEMENT

Pivot Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to increasing the diversity of its workforce. We actively work to cultivate an inclusive culture that welcomes, empowers, and enables equitable career growth for employees regardless of background.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.