Project Finance Analyst

About Us

Highland Electric Fleets’ mission is to make electric fleets accessible and affordable for all, enabling communities to realize the benefits of cleaner, quieter and healthier fleets. Highland is North America’s leading provider of Electrification-as-a-Service (EaaS). Founded in 2019, Highland partners with school districts, municipalities, and fleet operators to make the transition to electric fleets simple and affordable.

Highland proudly serves as the Official Electric School Bus Provider of the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games and Team USA. From pioneering vehicle-to-grid technology to managing some of the nation’s largest electric school bus fleets, Highland delivers reliable, cost-effective solutions that support local communities and drive the future of transportation.

Essential Function: Project Modeling/ Underwriting

• Own every aspect of the project financial model, including becoming intimately familiar with the underwriting, potential capital permutations and value levers
• Analyze financial results and communicate performance and pricing impacts internally, sharing recommendations for project return improvements
• Manage various tracker and tool updates and dissemination, as needed

Essential Function: Transaction Support

• Support (and eventually lead) various aspects of a project financing or tax credit transfer, including but not limited to: Modeling; Due Diligence; Dataroom Management; Term Sheet and Transaction Document Support; Third Party (Independent Engineer and Appraisal) Reports; Project Closing activities
• Support deal lead on marketing of Highland’s project portfolio and capital structure to financiers
• Support transaction team in various approval stage-gate and committee review processes

Essential Function: Cross-Functional Support and Collaboration

• Collaborate with Origination, providing transactional support throughout the deal cycle
• Work closely with Origination, Market Development and Fleet Operations teams to understand, monitor, and improve the various construction, operational, and federal/state grant inputs to the model
• Prepare financial analyses to inform decision-making for Origination and Fleet Operations
• Support legal structuring and bankability of agreements

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 2 years in Infrastructure, Transportation, or Renewables/Power, finance, or capital markets
• Expert proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Microsoft Excel, including experience with financial modeling
• Proficiency with AI productively tools, such as Claude, to support workflows and drive efficiency
• Work and prior transactional experience in project finance, asset-backed finance, M&A, investment banking, municipal finance, project underwriting, real estate, energy, insurance, private equity or venture capital
• Understanding of return metrics, including NPV, IRR, MOIC
• Basic knowledge of accounting and financial statements
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills
• Ability to present complex information succinctly and efficiently to audiences internal and external
• High attention to detail
• Strong problem-solving and organizational skills
• Experience managing projects with multiple stakeholders on tight timelines