Represented confidentially by Joe Amara Executive SearchJoe Amara Executive Search is representing a leading independent power producer building a portfolio of solar, battery storage, and wind assets in a confidential search for a Vice President, Capital Markets. The Vice President will serve as a senior finance and transaction leader, overseeing corporate capital markets activity, helping lead M&A as a function, supporting project finance execution, and owning the enterprise model as a strategic decision-making tool. This is a hands-on leadership role for a candidate who can operate at the intersection of capital formation, transaction execution, portfolio growth, and company-level strategy. The ideal candidate brings meaningful experience across capital markets, M&A, and project finance within renewable energy, power, infrastructure, investment banking, or private equity-backed platforms. The role is best suited for someone who can lead complex transactions, manage a small team, engage senior stakeholders and external capital providers, and remain close enough to the work to understand the details that drive decisions.
Responsibilities:
Lead corporate capital markets initiatives, including corporate debt facilities, structured capital solutions, and other company-level financing activity. Serve as a key internal point person for a future sale, exit, or strategic capital events, partnering closely with ownership, advisors, lenders, and senior leadership. Own the corporate enterprise model as a strategic tool for evaluating liquidity, capital needs, financing alternatives, capital allocation, and company-level decisions, with support from junior members of the finance team. Lead and strengthen the M&A function, including transaction strategy, bid guidance, deal execution, diligence coordination, and sign-off support. Provide senior oversight and execution support for project finance activity, including debt and tax equity transactions, as business needs require. Manage and mentor a small team, including M&A and analyst-level resources, while leveraging broader finance support on larger transactions. Build and maintain productive relationships across lenders, investment banks, infrastructure capital providers, and other financing counterparties. Help shape strategic decisions in a private equity-backed environment where timing, capital structure, execution quality, and enterprise value creation are closely connected.
Qualifications:
Approximately 10 to 15 years of relevant experience, with flexibility for exceptional candidates from investment banking or similarly rigorous transaction environments. Demonstrated experience across capital markets, M&A, and project finance, ideally with exposure to renewable energy, power, infrastructure, or independent power producer platforms. Strong understanding of corporate debt, structured capital, project finance debt, tax equity, and transaction execution in asset-intensive businesses. Ability to lead complex processes while remaining sufficiently hands-on with models, diligence, documents, and work stream details, supplemented by junior member support. Experience using corporate- or enterprise-level financial models to inform strategic decisions and optimize the business, not simply to produce outputs. Commercial judgment, analytical rigor, and the credibility to advise senior leadership on financing, transaction, and capital allocation choices. Strong external-facing presence with lenders, tax equity investors, advisors, private equity sponsors, and other capital providers. About Joe Amara Executive SearchJoe Amara Executive Search is a boutique executive search firm specializing in transmission, power generation and digital infrastructure, with deep networks across IPPs, the capital markets and energy advisory services globally. Backed by a 100% completion rate and recognition from The Wall Street Journal, we are trusted to build the next generation of power and digital infrastructure leadership teams. We lead confidential retained searches for C-suite, leadership, and niche technical roles across the globe. We have offices in Chicago and Miami. For more information, please visit joeamara.com or email your resume to info@joeamara.com
