Apply to Project Finance, Financial Modeling and Bankability Specialist

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Opportunity track: SEA / GLOBAL / MENA-EE
Engagement: Contingent individual consultant; engagement may be direct or through an eligible U.S. consulting firm
Location: Remote — United States, with possible international travel
Primary promotion location: New York, New York 10001
Anticipated consulting fee: $150–$300 per hour, or a negotiated fixed price by work package

The opportunity

Axyde is building a senior expert bench for anticipated U.S. government-funded project-scoping assignments involving mining, mineral processing, energy, utilities, transportation, digital infrastructure, smart cities, and other capital-intensive infrastructure across the Indo-Pacific, Africa and the Middle East, Europe and Eurasia, Latin America, and other global markets.

The selected specialist will help Axyde translate early-stage technical and market concepts into transparent commercial and financial assessments. The work will test whether project assumptions are internally consistent, identify the conditions required for financial viability and investment readiness, evaluate plausible financing pathways, and define proportionate financial-analysis tasks for subsequent feasibility studies or technical-assistance assignments.

Assignments may begin with incomplete data and require rapid, independent, and defensible conclusions. Axyde welcomes specialists with deep expertise in one or more sectors or financing structures; applicants are not expected to cover every infrastructure sector or source of capital.

This is a project-scoping and financial-analysis role. It does not authorize the consultant to offer securities, solicit investments, commit financing, provide regulated legal or tax advice, or undertake broker-dealer activity.

Potential responsibilities

• Develop, review, audit, or challenge integrated project-finance and corporate-finance models using transparent, traceable, and internally consistent assumptions.
• Evaluate development costs, CAPEX, OPEX, sustaining capital, working capital, taxes, royalties, depreciation, revenues, margins, cash flows, terminal values, and closure or decommissioning obligations.
• Conduct scenario, sensitivity, break-even, probabilistic, affordability, value-for-money, life-cycle-cost, IRR, NPV, debt-service, and covenant analyses, as appropriate.
• Assess financing requirements, capital structure, debt capacity, tenor, grace periods, repayment profiles, security packages, reserve accounts, guarantees, credit support, and refinancing assumptions.
• Evaluate sponsor capacity, governance, equity commitment, development funding, project-development plans, transaction readiness, and likely lender or investor diligence requirements.
• Assess feedstock, production, construction, completion, technology, offtake, tariff, demand, price, currency, convertibility, transfer, sovereign, regulatory, operating, environmental, social, and political-risk assumptions.
• Evaluate commercial structures such as offtake, tolling, concessions, power-purchase agreements, availability payments, user charges, capacity payments, take-or-pay arrangements, public-private partnerships, or blended-finance structures.
• Identify potential commercial-bank, capital-market, private-credit, sponsor-equity, export-credit, development-finance, multilateral, government, grant, guarantee, insurance, and blended-finance pathways.
• Assess eligibility and fit for potential U.S. financing, export-credit, development-finance, technical-assistance, or risk-mitigation tools without representing that financing will be available.
• Reconcile financial assumptions with technical scope, project schedule, market evidence, procurement strategy, environmental and social requirements, and risk allocation.
• Develop or review financial tasks, required qualifications, assumptions, deliverables, schedules, and budgets for feasibility studies, technical assistance, transaction preparation, and specialized diligence.
• Participate in sponsor interviews and, when specifically authorized, exploratory discussions with lenders, investors, export-credit agencies, development-finance institutions, multilateral organizations, insurers, and advisers.
• Contribute to concept consultations, initial assessments, project reports, presentations, risk registers, financing strategies, and bankability recommendations.
• Clearly distinguish verified inputs, sponsor-provided assumptions, third-party forecasts, modeled scenarios, professional judgments, and unresolved uncertainties.

Required qualifications

• At least 10 years of directly relevant project-finance, infrastructure-finance, investment-banking, development-finance, transaction-advisory, financial-modeling, investment, lending, or related experience.
• Demonstrated experience evaluating capital-intensive infrastructure, industrial, natural-resources, energy, utility, transportation, or digital projects.
• Advanced financial-modeling proficiency in Excel or a comparable platform, including transparent assumptions, integrated statements or project cash flows, scenario and sensitivity analysis, and model-quality controls.
• Experience translating incomplete technical, market, and commercial information into fit-for-purpose financial conclusions, diligence requirements, development options, and risk-mitigation measures.
• Ability to explain assumptions, limitations, sensitivities, and financing concepts clearly to technical and non-financial decision-makers.
• Strong analytical writing, quantitative reasoning, and stakeholder-interview skills, with the ability to work under compressed schedules.
• Contract-required status: The individual performing the work must be either a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident of the United States (green-card holder). Other forms of U.S. work authorization do not satisfy the stated requirements of the anticipated contracts. A consultant engaged directly as an individual must maintain a principal place of business in the United States. A consultant proposed through a firm must be employed or engaged through an entity that independently satisfies the solicitation’s U.S.-firm requirements.

Preferred qualifications

• CFA, CPA, MBA, relevant securities or banking experience, financial-modeling certification, or another directly applicable qualification.
• Experience with mining, mineral processing, power, oil and gas, LNG, hydrogen, geothermal, transportation, water, digital infrastructure, data centers, telecommunications, smart cities, or industrial facilities.
• Experience with the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, U.S. Export-Import Bank, multilateral development banks, export-credit agencies, commercial lenders, infrastructure funds, or emerging-market investors.
• Experience independently reviewing feasibility studies, lender models, sponsor models, transaction structures, financing plans, capital budgets, or investment memoranda.
• Familiarity with non-recourse or limited-recourse financing, public-private partnerships, blended finance, political-risk insurance, guarantees, or sovereign and sub-sovereign credit considerations.
• Experience assessing U.S. export content, procurement plans, and potential U.S. financing support for international projects.
• Regional experience in Latin America, Europe and Eurasia, Africa and the Middle East, or the Indo-Pacific.

Engagement conditions

This is a contingent consulting opportunity, not an offer of full-time employment. No award, assignment, minimum number of hours, or minimum compensation is guaranteed. Engagement depends on contract award, assignment fit, eligibility, conflicts, availability, successful completion of Axyde’s due diligence, and agreement on scope and pricing. The stated fee range is an anticipated range; the final rate or fixed price will depend on experience, role, work-package requirements, and applicable cost-reasonableness requirements.

Some assignments may require rapid analysis, interviews, irregular coordination across time zones, or international travel. Travel requirements, approvals, insurance, information-access conditions, and reimbursable costs will be addressed in the applicable consulting agreement or work order.

Participation in a U.S. Trade and Development Agency project-scoping assignment may make the participating consultant or subcontracting entity ineligible to compete—whether as a prime contractor, subcontractor, or otherwise—for certain USTDA-funded follow-on activities resulting from that assignment, unless USTDA grants a waiver. Axyde will disclose the applicable restriction and obtain written acceptance before issuing a work order.

Selected specialists may be asked for written permission to include their name, qualifications, and resume in a proposal. Applying does not by itself authorize Axyde to represent that an applicant has committed to a proposal or assignment.

Work performed under an awarded contract will be subject to applicable confidentiality, data-rights, information-security, professional-responsibility, financial-conflict, and organizational-conflict-of-interest requirements. Any proprietary models, templates, databases, methodologies, licensed information, or background intellectual property should be identified before an assignment begins.

How to apply

Apply through Axyde’s online application form using the heading SEA/GLOBAL/MENA-EE – Project Finance, Financial Modeling and Bankability Specialist. Please provide:

• A resume or CV of no more than three pages.
• Two or three concise, directly relevant project or transaction examples identifying your role, sector, jurisdiction, approximate capital scale where disclosable, project stage, financing or modeling questions, and the resulting work product or decision.
• Your principal sector, financing-structure, institution, geographic, and modeling areas of expertise.
• Your U.S. location, travel availability, availability during the anticipated performance period, and proposed hourly rate or fixed-price basis.
• A self-attestation that you are either a U.S. citizen or a lawful permanent resident and, if you would contract directly as an individual, that your principal place of business is in the United States. Applicants proposing engagement through a firm should identify the firm and confirm that it meets the applicable solicitation definition of a U.S. firm.
• Any relevant professional qualifications, licenses, registrations, or modeling credentials, including current status where applicable.
• Any known organizational conflicts, current advisory or fiduciary duties, investment holdings, lender or investor relationships, client restrictions, transaction roles, or planned pursuits of potentially related USTDA-funded work.

Do not submit a passport, green card, Social Security number, passwords, license keys, material nonpublic information, client financial models, offering documents, bank information, personally identifiable information, source-selection-sensitive information, or client-confidential material. Public, authorized, and appropriately anonymized project descriptions are sufficient for the initial application. Axyde will request only the documentation and information needed at the appropriate stage of selection and engagement.

Axyde considers qualified applicants without regard to any status protected by applicable law. The citizenship or permanent-residence limitation above applies solely to work covered by the stated U.S. government contract requirements.