Citi US | Clean Energy Finance (CEF) – VP/Director

Responsibilities

• The Clean Energy Finance (CEF) team is seeking a candidate to join the origination team that provides tax equity financing and tax credit transfer transactions for Citi’s clients.
• This role will be instrumental in driving the origination, structuring, and execution of tax equity financings for Citi clients.
• The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in tax equity transactions, strong leadership skills, and the ability to cultivate and manage client relationships effectively.
• The candidate should have experience selling the related tax credits to corporates.
• We use automated processing, including artificial intelligence, for our legitimate business interests (or our reasonable and appropriate business purposes) to identify and align the candidate's skills and abilities with a specific job opening.
• Develop and execute a comprehensive origination strategy to identify, evaluate, and secure tax equity financing opportunities with developers.
• Build and maintain relationships with institutional investors, developers, project sponsors, and other key stakeholders to source and negotiate tax equity financing opportunities.
• Prepare and present financing proposals, financial models, and presentations to senior management and investment committees for approval and funding.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to team members, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture within the tax equity origination team.
• Work with the portfolio management team to explore opportunities to repower and optimize existing portfolio of tax equity projects.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders such as legal, compliance, tax, risk management, and finance to structure tax equity transactions that align with client objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Lead and manage members of the tax equity origination team in the execution of long-term, strategic partnerships with renewable energy developers, providing strategic direction, guidance, and transaction execution to achieve origination goals and objectives.
• Originate the associated tax credit transfer transactions, identify investors, and drive execution.

Requirements

• Experience in evaluating financing transactions and structures.
• Demonstrates problem solving and organizational skills.
• Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience leading and assisting with client development.
• Experience collaborating with banking “coverage” / relationship officers.
• Ability to work with teams and track business development (collect research, analyze industry trends).
• Experience negotiating and closing multiple tax equity financings.
• Experience interpreting tax opinions for tax equity transactions.
• Extensive knowledge of HLBV accounting.
• Ability to interact with clients (inc. sponsors & developers), Citi relationship bankers, external & internal counsels, independent engineers, and other transaction parties.
• Experience creating financial analyses
• Experience closing tax credit transfer transactions

Citi US

Citi US is an employer hiring in India (sector: BFSI / Investments / Insurance).

Its finance, accounts, audit and tax openings in India are mostly in New York, Getzville, Tampa and Miami.

• Industry: BFSI / Investments / Insurance