Senior Corporate Finance Associate

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced, analytical, and self-directed Senior Corporate Finance Associate to join our growing team. This role leads the corporate finance team’s financial modeling and strategic planning efforts, with a focus on evaluating and executing equity and debt financing activities, capital structure strategy, and long-range liquidity planning.

The ideal candidate will bring deep experience in upstream oil and gas finance, hands-on transaction execution across debt and equity capital markets, and the judgment to translate complex analysis into clear recommendations for senior leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Corporate Financial Modeling & Capital Structure Analysis

• Support and assist in enhancing the corporate financial model, including scenario and sensitivity analysis across commodity price, production, and capital spending assumptions

• Model and evaluate debt and equity financing alternatives, including impacts on leverage, liquidity, cost of capital, and covenant headroom

• Perform variance analysis to explain changes in liquidity, working capital, and operating cash flows, and translate findings into actionable insights

• Lead ad-hoc analysis for senior leadership, including returns analysis, capital allocation trade-offs, and financing decision support

• Strategic Planning & Capital Allocation

• Drive the long-range planning process, integrating development plans, hedging strategy, and financing assumptions into a cohesive corporate outlook

• Develop capital allocation frameworks and recommendations across debt reduction, reinvestment, and shareholder return alternatives

• Prepare board, management, and stakeholder materials supporting strategic and financing decisions

• Cross-Functional Coordination: Partner with Accounting, FP&A, Treasury, and Reservoir Engineering to align planning assumptions and outputs

• Equity & Debt Financing Execution

• Lead execution workstreams for financing transactions, including RBL redeterminations and amendments, term debt and securitized financings, and equity or equity-linked raises

• Prepare lender, rating agency, and investor materials, including bank presentations, borrowing base support, and marketing data rooms

• Coordinate with external advisors, legal counsel, and lender groups through diligence, documentation, and closing

• Evaluate financing implications of A&D activity, supporting valuation, due diligence, and lender notification processes for acquisitions and divestitures

• Debt Compliance & Credit Agreement Administration

• Oversee ongoing compliance under the company’s financing agreements, including covenant calculations, compliance certificates, and required lender deliverables

• Review borrowing base data and production/hedge reporting prepared by junior team members

• Cross-Functional Coordination: Work closely with Accounting to ensure alignment between financial reporting and covenant calculations

• Leadership & Process Improvement

• Mentor and review the work of corporate finance analysts, providing guidance on modeling standards and deliverable quality

• Identify and implement opportunities to make reporting, modeling, and planning processes more efficient, consistent, and scalable