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About Valar Atomics
Valar Atomics is developing a fleet of advanced nuclear reactors at gigasites across the U.S. Project economics — capital plans, EVM rollups, gate financial packages, scenario models — sit at the heart of every internal decision and every external financing or offtake conversation.
About The Role
The Project Finance Analyst owns project economics and EVM analysis across the program. The hiring plan grows this role into Project Finance Director — we are explicitly hiring with director potential in mind. You will partner with Valar's Finance leadership on monthly cost reporting and gate financial packages, and with the Cost Estimator (MSG-CostE) on capital plan inputs.
Key Responsibilities
Earned-value management and cost reporting
Valar Atomics is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable law.
We are committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment and will provide reasonable accommodation as required by law.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder).
We are committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment and will provide reasonable accommodation as required by law.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder).
Salary
$160,000 - $240,000 USD
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Valar Atomics is developing a fleet of advanced nuclear reactors at gigasites across the U.S. Project economics — capital plans, EVM rollups, gate financial packages, scenario models — sit at the heart of every internal decision and every external financing or offtake conversation.
About The Role
The Project Finance Analyst owns project economics and EVM analysis across the program. The hiring plan grows this role into Project Finance Director — we are explicitly hiring with director potential in mind. You will partner with Valar's Finance leadership on monthly cost reporting and gate financial packages, and with the Cost Estimator (MSG-CostE) on capital plan inputs.
Key Responsibilities
Earned-value management and cost reporting
- Build and maintain EVM rollups across the Numenor pod and successor pods — CPI, SPI, ETC, EAC, variance analysis at the WBS / cost-account level.
- Reconcile actuals against the AACE Class 3–5 estimate baseline maintained by MSG-CostE.
- Produce the monthly project cost report — variance commentary, drivers, action items.
- Maintain the cost coding structure (WBS / CBS) in coordination with the Project Manager (GS1P-PM) and Project Controller (GS1P-PC).
- Develop and maintain capital plan inputs across the FEL → construction → COD horizon.
- Run quarterly capital forecasts and cash-flow updates feeding into the corporate plan.
- Build the long-range capital trajectory across multi-pod replication scenarios.
- Build scenario models for capex sensitivity (Class 3 / 4 / 5 ranges), financing structure (debt / equity / DOE LPO / customer pre-funding), and offtake economics (BTM data center, grid PPA, hybrid).
- Produce LCOE / unit-cost-of-energy outputs across scenarios for executive and Board review.
- Support financing-readiness work — bank-grade model documentation, audit-trail discipline, version control.
- Prepare gate financial packages for internal stage-gate reviews (FEL-1 / FEL-2 / FEL-3) and external readouts (Board, investors, lenders).
- Lead financial sections of NRC ESP/COL filings and DOE program submittals where capital cost and financial assurance are in scope.
- Coordinate with the Head of Regulatory Affairs on financial-assurance regulatory filings.
- Weekly: project cost flash to PM / PC.
- Monthly: project cost report to Finance leadership and the executive team.
- Quarterly: capital forecast update; Board-level financial readout.
- Per-gate: stage-gate financial package.
- Partner with MSG-CostE on cost rollups, vendor quote normalization, and contingency methodology.
- Partner with GS1P-ESM on offtake pricing models and customer-deal economics.
- Partner with the Head of Regulatory Affairs on financial assurance and decommissioning funding mechanics.
- Partner with the Project Controller (GS1P-PC) on cost-loaded schedule integration and EVM tooling.
- 5 years in project finance, infrastructure finance, or corporate development with a project-economics focus.
- Demonstrated EVM rollup or capital-plan ownership.
- Strong financial modeling — capex, opex, financing structure, sensitivity.
- Track record producing executive-grade financial packages under tight deadlines.
- Infrastructure project finance bank background — MUFG, BNP Paribas, Mizuho, SMBC, ING, Sumitomo energy desks.
- Sponsor-side background — Brookfield, Macquarie, KKR Infrastructure, Stonepeak, Global Infrastructure Partners, EQT Infrastructure.
- Project-finance-focused law firm alumni transitioning in-house.
- EPC project-finance team background.
- Director-track potential — comfort growing into PF Director in Phase 2.
- Competitive base salary
- Equity ownership in a rapidly growing advanced energy company
- Comprehensive medical benefits
- Free daily lunch and dinner provided onsite
- High-impact startup environment with significant ownership and autonomy
- Opportunities for rapid career growth and internal advancement
- Direct collaboration with experienced operators, engineers, and industry leaders
- The opportunity to help build and scale transformative energy technology from the ground up
Valar Atomics is an equal opportunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable law.
We are committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment and will provide reasonable accommodation as required by law.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder).
We are committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment and will provide reasonable accommodation as required by law.
Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident (green card holder).
Salary
$160,000 - $240,000 USD
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Salary : $160,000 - $240,000