The Hawk Group Hiring for Senior Investment Officer – Project Finance at Anchorage, AK Full Time

Job Summary

The Senior Investment Officer works within the Project Finance and Asset Management (PFAM) group and provides project investment and project development analysis, financial structuring, financial and economic analysis, and portfolio management services across the lifecycle of horizontal and vertical infrastructure projects in all major sectors and in public private partnership (PPP) projects.

Responsibilities

• Provides strategic and financial analysis spanning the lifecycle of infrastructure projects including: project development to operation, stakeholders/potential stakeholders, government sponsored public private partnership project procurements; bid/sell-side transaction advisory; project finance and development advisory; financial feasibility and business case market analysis; project finance model builds, model reviews, and project finance debt raising advisory; and policy and regulatory advisory.
• Produces key transaction outputs – information memos, investment analysis, modeling analysis and presents these appropriately to stakeholders.
• Negotiates and coordinates loan/investment documentation with The Client’s partners, co-lenders, and applicants.
• Represents PFAM on cross-functional teams of internal and external resources.
• Supports and makes recommendations to Senior Management in the evaluation of tractions for Investment Committee review and on special projects.
• Provides clear and insightful analytic results.
• Builds, reviews, and dissects forecasts and their drivers; conducts scenario analysis.
• Identifies key financial and non-financial risks and recommends action for mitigation of those risks.
• Identifies performance metrics pertaining to business operations, competitors, benchmarking, etc.
• Analyzes results, perform variance analysis, identify trends, and make recommendations for improvements.
• Develops stress-testing methodologies using statistical analysis of the underlying data, understanding of the various economic factors and risk factors that influence the results.
• Determines the probability of default.
• Determines financial status by analyzing actual results in comparison with forecasts.
• Consults with management to guide and influence long term and strategic decision making within the broadest scope.
• Conducts comparable analysis and market research to support financial analysis.
• Interprets the Authority’s programs and works with stakeholders to develop short-term and long-term economic development objectives and programs.
• Develops the strategic and economic plans for financing infrastructure projects.
• Provides support in promoting economic and resource/project development in Alaska by being familiar with and making use of all the Authority’s financing programs and other governmental financing programs.
• Manages the development and financing of resource/infrastructure development projects utilizing a variety of Client programs in conjunction with other state agencies as well as private sector entities.
• Collaborates with other team members structuring development, finance, and business models; structuring public-private financial arrangements; and the management of the portfolio.
• Develops greenfield resource infrastructure projects that make use of the Client’s finance tools, including loans, bonds, direct finance and guarantees.
• Work closely and collaboratively with staff in other divisions on the development and financing of projects and road, and other infrastructure. This includes but is not limited to overseeing, tracking, and communicating with borrowers and their financial institutions concerning required reporting under all PFAM investments and programs.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of ten years of quantitative transactional finance or commercial bank lending experience, with a focus on project/structured finance of large, complex infrastructure projects
• Experience in preparing bankability feasibility studies/business cases for infrastructure projects, including PPP transactions
• Experience taking projects to financial close
• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, economics, statistics, business administration, or another related field
• Demonstrates strong financial modeling skills, both in building and evaluating detailed financial models
• Demonstrates solid and consistent ability to handle multiple project development or direct investments (project/structured finance) of large, complex infrastructure projects with little oversight
• Demonstrates ability to concisely present at board meetings and other meetings to earn buy-in

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in project development within the commercial and industrial sectors represented in the Client’s loan and investment portfolio (including oil and gas, mining, roads, ports/terminals, shipbuilding and repair, commercial office space, warehousing, tourism, logistics, and federal facilities) strongly preferred
• MBA is preferred
• Prior experience in project financing of government sponsored PPP projects strongly preferred