Manager, Corporate Development

Manager, Corporate Development

We are seeking a highly analytical, detail-oriented, and proactive Corporate Development Associate / Manager / Director to join our Project Development team. This role is critical in supporting the successful development of our utility-scale solar and storage project portfolio by providing robust data analyses, project controls, and serving as a key liaison between the project development team and finance / investment stakeholders. The successful candidate will be responsible for analyzing project schedules, cash flows, and development progress at both the individual project and portfolio levels, with a keen understanding of how these elements impact financial forecasting and investment decisions.

The successful candidate will report directly to the Chief Development Officer and will play a key role in providing insights that drive decision-making, optimize project timelines, enhance capital efficiency, and ensure alignment between development activities and financial objectives. A significant portion of this role initially may involve supporting the implementation and optimization of our project management and tracking system (e.g., Sitetracker).

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

• Develop and maintain dashboards, KPIs, and reports to provide actionable insights into project and portfolio performance, risks, and opportunities
• Support the development of tools and systems for efficient data collection, management, and analysis, including playing a key role in the Sitetracker implementation and ongoing management.
• Identify trends, patterns, and anomalies in development data to support strategic decision-making and process improvements
• Develop, maintain, and analyze detailed project development schedules for a portfolio of utility-scale renewable energy projects, including identifying schedule variances, potential delays, and risks, and working with project developers to develop mitigation strategies.
• Track key milestones, critical path activities, and progress against baselines for all development phases.
• Act as a primary point of contact between the Development team and Finance departments
• Work with developers to manage actuals data on development projects, support annual budget creation, and contribute to the development P&L forecast and overhead tracking; support project spend tracking against Investment Committee (IC) approvals.
• Assess, analyze, document and in some cases create business processes to increase Development's efficiency and standardization
• Compile and organize key documents and project information for internal and external parties

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