Senior Analyst, Corporate Finance & Strategic Modeling

About Luminace

Luminace is a leading distributed energy infrastructure platform focused on developing, financing, owning, and operating solar, storage, community solar, and other distributed energy assets across North America.

As the business continues to scale, Luminace is building a modern finance organization that combines sophisticated financial analysis, strategic decision support, advanced analytics, and technology-enabled modeling. We are seeking a highly analytical finance professional who thrives in complex environments and is passionate about leveraging both finance and technology to drive business decisions.

Position Overview

The Senior Analyst, Corporate Finance & Strategic Modeling will play a critical role in supporting enterprise-wide decision-making through advanced financial modeling, valuation, strategic investments, liquidity analysis, portfolio planning, and capital allocation. This role is designed for individuals with outstanding modeling capabilities who can move beyond traditional spreadsheet-based approaches and develop scalable analytical solutions using modern technologies such as Python, SQL, Power BI, AI-assisted analytics, and cloud-based finance platforms.

The ideal candidate combines strong corporate finance fundamentals with a builder's mindset and enjoys creating analytical frameworks capable of supporting large-scale portfolios, complex investment structures, and evolving business needs. This position will work closely with Finance, Treasury, Accounting, Development, Asset Management, Tax, Project Structuring, Capital Markets, and Executive Leadership to support strategic initiatives across the business lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

Corporate Finance & Strategic Analysis

• Develop and maintain enterprise financial models supporting valuation, capital allocation, long-term planning, and strategic decision-making.
• Support executive leadership with financial analyses related to portfolio growth, investment prioritization, risk assessment, and return optimization.
• Prepare board, executive, and investment committee materials and recommendations.
• Perform scenario analysis, sensitivity analysis, risk modeling, and return optimization studies.
• Evaluate strategic alternatives and provide actionable recommendations supported by robust financial analysis.

Portfolio Acquisitions & Strategic Investments

Support the evaluation, underwriting, and execution of acquisitions or divestitures of renewable energy assets and project portfolios across various stages of development, construction, and operations.

Build and maintain investment models used to assess opportunities ranging from individual assets to large-scale portfolios containing hundreds of project entities and asset-level cash flow streams.

Analyze asset transfer transactions, including valuation, purchase price determination, return analysis, financing impacts, and long-term portfolio optimization.

Develop scalable frameworks for aggregating project-level economics into portfolio, fund, and enterprise-level financial analyses.

Evaluate project cash flow forecasts, development spend, construction budgets, tax attributes, financing structures, and operating performance to support investment decisions.

Partner with Development, Operations, Asset Management, Treasury, Tax, Accounting, Capital Markets, Project Structuring and Legal teams to conduct financial diligence and transaction analysis.

Support transaction execution activities, including investment committee presentations, financing analyses, closing adjustments, valuation support, and post-transaction performance monitoring.

Perform sensitivity analyses around power pricing, construction costs, financing assumptions, tax incentives, operating performance, and capital structure alternatives.

Assist in designing repeatable analytical processes that support the efficient evaluation of a high volume of recurring investment opportunities across a growing portfolio of renewable energy assets.

Advanced Financial Modeling

Design, build, and maintain sophisticated financial models across

• Portfolio valuation
• Strategic finance
• Corporate forecasting
• Liquidity planning
• Capital allocation
• Debt financing
• Tax equity structures
• Development and construction economics
• Operating asset performance
• Create dynamic, driver-based models that enable rapid scenario planning and strategic decision-making.
• Develop scalable analytical frameworks capable of supporting large asset portfolios and complex investment structures.
• Improve transparency, auditability, and automation across finance models and processes.

Finance Technology & Analytics

Utilize modern analytical tools including

Python

SQL

Power BI

OneStream

• AI-assisted analytical tools
• Cloud-based financial modeling platforms
• Build automated workflows and analytical solutions that reduce reliance on manual spreadsheet processes.
• Partner with Finance Transformation initiatives to modernize valuation, forecasting, planning, and reporting capabilities.
• Develop data structures and modeling environments capable of supporting enterprise-wide strategic analysis.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Collaborate across Finance, Treasury, Accounting, Development, Asset Management, Tax, Legal, Project Structuring and Capital Markets teams.
• Translate complex analyses into concise, decision-ready recommendations for business leaders.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives across valuation, forecasting, liquidity planning, and investment analysis processes.
• Help establish best practices in financial modeling, data management, and analytical governance.

Required

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, or related field.

4-7 years of experience in

Corporate Development

Investment Banking

Infrastructure Investing

Renewable Energy Finance

Private Equity or Asset Management

Advanced financial modeling capabilities.

Strong understanding of

• Discounted cash flow analysis
• Corporate finance
• Portfolio valuation
• Project finance
• Capital structure optimization
• Investment return metrics
• Transaction analysis
• Experience managing large datasets and asset-level financial information.
• Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Preferred

• CFA designation or progress toward CFA charter.
• Experience within renewable energy, infrastructure, power, utilities, or real asset investing.
• Experience evaluating portfolios containing large numbers of projects, entities, or investment vehicles.
• Experience supporting acquisitions, strategic investments, asset transfers, or capital deployment decisions.
• Experience with debt financing, tax equity, structured finance, or capital markets transactions.
• Experience building financial models using Python or similar programming languages.
• Experience with Power BI, SQL, OneStream, Azure, Snowflake, or equivalent analytical platforms.

What Success Looks Like

Within the first 12 months, the successful candidate will

• Deliver scalable valuation and investment models capable of supporting large portfolios of renewable energy assets.
• Improve analytical efficiency through automation and technology-enabled modeling solutions.
• Become a trusted contributor to strategic investment, financing, and capital allocation decisions.
• Support successful execution of portfolio acquisitions, asset transfer transactions, and financing initiatives.
• Help modernize Luminace's modeling ecosystem by reducing dependency on manual spreadsheet-driven processes.
• Provide decision-ready insights that directly influence enterprise value creation and long-term growth.

Why This Role Is Different

This is not a traditional FP&A role.

The successful candidate will operate at the intersection of

Corporate Finance

Strategic Finance

Portfolio Investments

Valuation

Treasury

Tax

Legal

Project Structuring

Capital Markets

Advanced Analytics

Finance Transformation

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building both financial models and analytical systems, wants exposure to senior leadership decision-making, and is passionate about helping create a next-generation finance organization capable of supporting one of the industry's leading distributed energy platforms.