About CenterNode
CenterNode is Forest Road Company’s dedicated alternative energy investment platform, providing flexible, structured capital solutions to projects, developers, and operating companies.
Job Summary
We are seeking a Project Finance Associate who can work to validate opportunities, price projects, and help us decide how and whether to move forward on deals. This person will own project-level financial modeling, underwrite solar and storage assets, support tax equity and debt processes, and bring financial discipline.
Job Duties & Key Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and iterate project and HoldCo-level financial models for solar and storage assets, including cash flow projections, return profiles, and sensitivity analyses across multi-project pipeline scenarios.
- Underwrite properties and offtake entities to assess default risk and validate project economics, including PPA rate assumptions, EPC costs, and site lease structures.
- Price projects across the development-to-COD lifecycle, incorporating construction capital, tax equity, debt, and revenue assumptions.
- Lead the preparation of investment summaries for internal approval for single- to portfolio-level project materials.
- Work directly with senior management to pressure-test assumptions and flag financial risks before deals move forward.
- Support tax equity and debt closings for solar and storage portfolios, coordinating due diligence and providing timely responses to lender and investor inquiries.
- Assist with corporate-level financial planning, including cash flow modeling, financing sources and uses, and near-term capital requirements.
- Track and analyze tax credit markets, including ITC transferability and fair market value appraisal processes.
- Evaluate incentive programs, policy environments, and revenue streams across target geographies.
- Coordinate with third-party partners, lenders, appraisers, and advisors across the financial workflow for each project and portfolio as needed.
- General support for ad hoc strategic and transactional initiatives.
Skills, Knowledge, Qualifications, and Experience
- Bachelor's degree required; concentration in finance, economics, or accounting a plus.
- 3+ years of experience in project finance, commercial real estate finance, private equity, or investment banking with direct exposure to energy assets.
- Hands-on experience with solar and/or storage project finance; experience with tax equity structures and behind-the-meter projects a plus.
- Advanced Excel skills with demonstrated experience building and stress-testing multi-scenario financial models.
- Familiarity with construction capital structures and deliver-to-COD project economics.
- Strong analytical instincts: able to distinguish between a model that runs and a model that is right.
- Excellent communication skills; able to translate financial outputs into clear recommendations for internal and external stakeholders.
- Self-directed, organized and high attention to detail; ability to manage multiple deals and deadlines in a lean team environment.
- Based in Los Angeles and able to work from our offices in Century City on a regular basis.
Benefits
CenterNode offers a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off.
Pay Transparency Pursuant to California law, CenterNode provides a pay range for each posted position. The listed salary range reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hires. Actual compensation within this range will be determined based on a candidate's skills, experience, and qualifications.
Equal Opportunity Employment CenterNode is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other characteristic protected by California or federal law. Reasonable accommodations are available to applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process.
