Driven by our vision of the affordable, reliable, net-zero carbon grid of the future, Mainspring has developed a new category of power generation — the linear generator — that delivers onsite, fuel-flexible power to accelerate the transition to the future grid.

We are looking to build relationships with people who share our values:

• Pragmatic Optimism. Building a new category of world-class power generation requires the optimism of ambition and creativity, balanced with practicality to solve problems efficiently. The challenges that arise are opportunities for growth.
• Excellence without Ego. We bring expertise and commitment to creating the best customer experience, from sales to deployment and service, just as we apply deep technical rigor to building and delivering world-class products. We strive for excellence and behave as leaders with the humility to acknowledge our challenges, both collectively and as individual contributors.
• Proactive Collaboration. The integration and cross-disciplinary nature of Mainspring’s business requires intentionally seeking out others who bring different skills, perspectives, and priorities. Our culture of inclusion and respect extends beyond our team to interactions with our partners and customers.

Responsibilities

We are seeking an experienced Commercial Business Analyst who can help accelerate our commercial customer growth and ensure an excellent customer experience with Mainspring Energy. You will be working cross functionally with the sales, product, business development, and marketing teams to understand the broad applicability of Mainspring’s technology across numerous markets to develop customized commercial tools and offerings for the future. You will provide critical input in shaping our economic models and analysis to churn out quality proposals for our clients. In addition, you will be responsible for identifying, analyzing, and interpreting trends from the customer, utility, and market data available to measure potential opportunities and challenges.

• Build dynamic project economic models for varying industries, deals, markets, and programs
• Evaluate existing project economic models and tools for bottlenecks and accuracy
• Enhance existing project economic models and tools to increase efficiency and quality
• Update models and tools regularly in accordance with technology changes, market dynamics, and deal structure
• Recommend and implement a standardized operating procedure for customer economic analysis and modeling
• Explore creative modeling structures to help differentiate and improve commercial offerings
• Conduct statistical and sensitivity analysis on utility, commodity, financing, and deal-related assumptions to assess project risk
• Analyze existing tools and databases to provide software solution recommendations, where necessary, to increase productivity and streamline processes
• Interpret tariff/regulatory documents and manage external communications with utility representatives to maintain internal electric and gas rate databases
• Manage internal cross-functional communications with sales, product, marketing, business development, and delivery, regarding project economic modeling
• Own ad hoc projects as required (e.g., research and analyze new markets and customers)

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience with finance or project economic analysis, ideally with an energy background (e.g., solar, batteries, EV charging, utility, or energy consulting services)
• Demonstrated experience with financial models and energy markets (Knowledge of Energy Tool Base, macros, financial modeling, rate analysis)
• Experience discussing project finance concepts (IRR, NPV, pre-tax vs. after-tax, etc.)
• Understanding of utility electric and gas tariffs
• Advanced excel knowledge is a must
• Basic knowledge of programming languages such as Python or R is a must; experience with data visualization such as Power BI / Tableau is preferred