Project & Corporate Finance Lead

In this role you will lead and execute project financings for major infrastructure and strategic investments, partnering with cross-functional teams to structure financing solutions and advise senior leadership. You will assess bankability, manage risk, and coordinate due diligence with lenders, banks, and advisers, while also supporting corporate financing and capital structure decisions. This is a transaction execution and financial strategy role, not treasury operations, offering opportunities to shape financing strategies in a regulated utility context.

• Base salary
• Annual bonus
• 401K match
• AEP Pension
• Comprehensive benefits package

• Lead structuring, evaluation and execution of project financings (non-recourse/limited-recourse, construction and term debt, secured facilities, private placements, leases)
• Assess bankability and financing risk across commercial terms, construction risk and lender requirements
• Coordinate workstreams with lenders, legal, rating agencies, engineers and other diligence providers
• Develop and review financial models, debt capacity analyses, sources-and-uses analyses, and sensitivity cases
• Negotiate financing terms and documentation with legal and business stakeholders
• Execute corporate financing transactions (term loans, bonds, private placements, leases)
• Advise on capital structure, cost of capital and credit metrics, supporting rating agencies
• Prepare analyses and materials for executives, Board and stakeholders to communicate financing options and risks
• Provide leadership and coaching within the Corporate Finance team and promote cross-organizational collaboration

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or related field with solid financial theory
• 4+ years in corporate banking, debt capital markets or corporate finance with direct project finance experience or 6+ years with 1+ year project/infrastructure finance experience
• Hands-on project finance experience in power/utilities/infrastructure is preferred

• cross-functional collaboration
• clear communication of complex financing provisions
• problem solving under complex transactions
• project finance structures
• financial modeling
• due diligence