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Vaulted is a climate tech company that removes carbon by safely injecting organic waste deep underground, permanently sequestering carbon while protecting land, air, and water. The company has 70+ employees across Houston, San Francisco, and Kansas, and recently signed the second-largest carbon removal offtake agreement ever with Microsoft (July 2025).
You will join the Houston-based finance team as a Senior Financial Analyst, reporting to the Director of Finance. This role is central to how Vaulted evaluates, finances, and manages its projects. Approximately 60% of your time will focus on project modeling: building and maintaining financial models that underwrite new sites, support financing and commercial negotiations, and inform investment decisions. The remaining 40% covers planning and performance analysis across operating sites and corporate entities.
Key responsibilities include:
**Project Finance & Modeling (~60%)**
- Own and maintain project-level financial models for new and operating sites
- Partner with site development and business development teams to evaluate new sites; run scenarios and sensitivities supporting go/no-go decisions and investment committee reviews
- Support project financing and capital raising initiatives
- Model commercial structures and support structuring and negotiation of term sheets for offtake, waste supply, partnership, and financing agreements
- Maintain project models integrated with the corporate model, ensuring audit-ready standards for assumptions, version control, and documentation
- Provide ad hoc analysis for leadership on commercial, operational, and strategic questions
**Financial Planning & Analysis (~40%)**
- Contribute to annual site development and operating budgets in partnership with department leaders; maintain rolling and cash forecasts
- Perform budget vs. actual and variance analysis; explain key drivers to leadership
- Develop and maintain KPI reports and dashboards tracking operational and financial performance
- Build analyses for board materials, investor updates, and fundraising diligence
- Support covenant calculations, compliance certificates, and lender reporting packages in coordination with accounting and legal
You will work directly with senior leadership and site development and commercial teams, translating models and results into clear recommendations on investment priorities and business performance.
**Requirements**
Preferred qualifications:
- 3–5 years of experience in project finance, infrastructure or energy investment banking, project development, infrastructure investing or lending, or corporate finance with significant project modeling exposure
- Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field, with working foundation in both finance and accounting
- Advanced Excel modeling skills: comfortable building and auditing project finance models (debt sizing and sculpting, DSCR, cash waterfalls, IRR/NPV) and three-statement models from scratch
- Working knowledge of project finance structures, including project-level debt and SPV structures
- Ability to explain model outputs and key drivers clearly to non-finance stakeholders
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage recurring deadlines independently
- Located in Houston, TX or willing to relocate
Nice to have:
- Experience in waste, energy, or other asset-heavy infrastructure sectors
- Familiarity with carbon markets, waste industry economics, or environmental commodities
- Experience supporting lender or investor diligence processes
