Global Climate Finance Associate (Remote) at UpEnergy

UpEnergy brings aspirational energy saving products within reach for low-income communities. We create valuable health and environmental outcomes by providing our users with products that improve their lives every day. Our approach combines local, on-the-ground teams leveraging our platform to best serve users, with over a decade of experience building platforms that generate valuable carbon emission reductions and allow us to provide our products to local communities at affordable subsidized prices.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Global Climate Finance Associate

Location: Remote
Employment Type: Full Time
Department: Finance
Start Date: As soon as possible.

About the Role

• We are at a time of exciting growth, expanding both in terms of product and geographic portfolio.
• We seek a Climate Finance Associate to play a key role in the origination and financing of our growing VER and ITMO portfolio.
• The Climate Finance Associate will initially report to the CFO and work closely with other members of senior management to ensure alignment and execution of UpEnergy’s carbon asset strategy.

Key Responsibilities
Project origination and financing support:

• Liaise between the relevant teams to gather information required for financial analysis and presentations to financing and offtake partners
• Coordinate reporting to financing and offtake partners, including preparation of project information packages

VER sales and marketing support:

• Support the preparation of marketing materials (pitch decks, project fact sheets, etc.) for existing and prospective financing and offtake partners
• Support the preparation and execution of outreach campaigns with the aim to identify new financing and offtake partners
• Support execution of carbon credits sales and delivery

Partner onboarding and relationships:

• Screen inbound communications from potential partners
• Own the KYC process with new partners

Market intelligence:

• Develop intelligence on carbon credit market transactions, financing, and trends
• Support the maintenance of tools and trackers with up-to-date partner and carbon data

General analytical support:

• Carry out financial analysis to support pitching and executing project financings and offtake transactions
• Support the internal financial planning and budgeting process
• Own the Excel tools and trackers used for general business analytics

Desired Skills, Characteristics and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or Higher
• At least 2 years of experience with carbon offset projects and/or carbon markets
• At least 2 years of experience with financial modeling and analysis
• Experience with VER sales across both spot for forward contracts
• Experience in sales and marketing campaigns
• Experience engaging with stakeholders and managing external relationships.
• Team player with a strong work ethic
• Orientation towards continuous improvement of team and self
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Experience managing processes
• Ability to travel to our countries of operation and to meet with potential partners

Why Join us?
A Unique Culture:

• UpEnergy encourages teamwork, creativity, and experimentation. We are not afraid to develop new project types, or to roll up our sleeves and tackle challenging operating environments.
• We stay close to our market, understand our customers, and have a lot of fun while doing our work!

Opportunity to do things in a new way:

• As a leader in a fast-moving industry, our team is constantly evolving, iterating and learning how to improve our business.
• This means endless opportunities for a self-starter to initiate new ways of doing things to help us improve.

Personal and Career Growth:

• At UpEnergy we value both personal and professional growth.
• We have built a culture of mutual learning and encourage our team to take on projects that expand their knowledge and expose them to parts of the business they are most interested in.

Create Lasting Impact:

• Our clean energy products bring positive impact to both our planet and the low-income communities we work in.
• We pledge to recycle revenue into the communities we serve and we work alongside our customers to make sure they benefit from our products.

Compensation
UpEnergy offers highly competitive compensation and benefits combined with an attractive bonus program.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.