Energy Originator

Description

• Manages external vendors setting scope, providing direction and approving work.
• Supports regulatory affairs in demonstrating prudence of transactions as needed, including preparing and providing testimony in WUTC rate cases.
• Oversees and leads negotiations of business deals critical to PSE's corporate growth strategy, including acquisitions and development projects, purchase and sales agreements, O&M agreements, real estate agreements, interconnection agreements, and service agreements.
• Ensures that all conditions are met related to deal closing and that transactions are successfully closed.
• Leads the resource acquisition RFP (request for proposal) process and due duligence reviews of potential transactions including financial feasibility analyses, engineering review, operations review, environmental review, legal review, and real estate review.

Requirements

• MBA or relaed post graduate degree.
• Experience working in the energy markets of the Pacific Northwest and WECC region, and familiarity with the Washington State regulatory environment for electricity.
• Strong business and financial analytical skills with capability to analyze a wide array of business challenges.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, finance, economics, business administration, or equivalent combination of education and/or work experience; plus 7 years of relevant work experience.
• Demonstrated experience and ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Ability to understand complex financial pro-formas and provide direction to analytical staff.
• Utility scale asset management or asset evaluation experience.
• Five (5) years of increasing responsibility in the utility, oil, gas, or independent power sector and experience in project development or commercial acquisitions.
• Experience negotiating power purchase agreements and asset acquisitions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to contemporaneously document evaluation, due dilligence, and negotiation initiatives for later prudence purposes.
• Experience developing utility-scale power projects, in particular, renewable energy and storage projects.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance