Energy Finance Director

Energy Finance Director

Requirements

• 12+ years experience in a finance role in the area of utilities, energy suppliers, or utility-scale energy solutions
• Experience working with detailed financial models of energy projects, identifying key risks and sensitivities, and leading financial due diligence efforts
• Strategic thinker with experience driving decision making in ambiguous environments with experience influencing executive stakeholders
• Analytical problem-solving skills, experience being effective in a fast paced, hands-on work environment, and have a track record of success leading projects and developing complex solutions across multiple stakeholders
• Effective collaborator and skilled cross-functional communicator incl. commercial, regulatory, market, and contractual details to all organizational levels
• Experience managing multiple projects and collaborating with all internal and external stakeholders and consultants

Responsibilities

• Develop programmatic benchmarks for assessing CapEx and OpEx Energy transactions
• Standardize financial modeling of transactions seeking to secure new cost competitive sources of energy for Meta’s operations
• Build and own the long range planning model for Energy programs in partnership with the Infrastructure Data Center teams
• Partner with the Corporate Finance team to understand financial risks in deals and build structures and guardrails to mitigate those risks
• Build programmatic tracking of the costs of these programs to the company as well as actual realized costs vs. those projected at the time of signing individual deals
• Partner with Infrastructure Data Centers on joint recommendations of what market forecasts and forward curves to use for transaction modeling
• Lead the approval process for various deals within the company including allocation of resources to ensure high-quality preparation of approval memos, engaging with auditors in the finalization of assurance letters, etc.
• Ensure appropriate review and support of domestic and international data center site selection and development activities
• Collaborate with internal organizations including data centers, energy, sustainability, legal, tax, engineering, and other parts of finance to support execution of energy supply solutions
• Stay informed of the technical, market, and regulatory developments in the energy industry and communicate key trends, risks and potential impacts to finance leadership
• Travel domestically and internationally, as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a business, finance, or technically related field
• Experience in wholesale and retail energy markets