Senior Carbon Data Analyst at BioLite

18 days ago

Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya

Remote

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Job Description

BioLite is seeking a Senior Carbon Finance Analyst to market carbon credits and perform quantitative analyses within the carbon finance department. The role involves selling carbon credits to corporations, conducting financial modeling, and managing workflows related to carbon finance. Candidates should possess a degree in a quantitative field and have strong Excel skills. The position is full-time and location independent, allowing for remote work.
TITLE: Senior Carbon Finance Analyst

HOURS: Full-time

LOCATION: Location independent

REPORTS TO: VP, Environmental Markets and Sustainability

About BioLite:

BioLite is a for-profit social enterprise that develops, manufactures and markets distributed energy solutions for off-grid communities around the world. Our business serves two distinct markets, developing-world families living in energy poverty, and outdoor enthusiasts seeking off-grid cooking, charging and lighting products. BioLite has now delivered clean energy access to over five million people and has mitigated more than one million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. BioLite believes in a bright and safe future for all, and that includes life at work. BioLite is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace where we aim to enable everyone to show up as their full selves. An inclusive environment and culture makes our solutions better and our entire team smarter. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status.

This Role:

BioLite seeks a Senior Carbon Finance Analyst to market and sell carbon credits, as well as to undertake quantitative analyses with the carbon finance department. BioLite develops carbon credits from the use of our products, especially clean biomass cookstoves, across Sub-Saharan Africa, channeling revenues from the sale of carbon credits to projects in the form of lower prices and other benefits to customers. This involves selling carbon credits on global commodities markets and implementing complex capital flows from their sale back to BioLite projects. In collaboration with the VP of Environmental Markets and Sustainability, the candidate will sell carbon credits to corporations seeking to offset their climate change impact.

The candidate will also conduct quantitative analyses needed within the carbon finance department, including but not limited to modelling product subsidies vs unit economics, long term revenue forecasting and planning and building financial models for investors.

By helping to ensure that carbon credits from BioLite’s clean energy products are successfully sold and revenues reinvested, you will be essential to fulfilling BioLite’s mission of bringing energy everywhere.

You Will:

Manage workflows in the following key areas:
• Develop roster of potential corporate clients for carbon credits and actively pitch these clients for purchase of either spot (issued) credits or long term forward contracts.
• Conduct complex quantitative analyses in Excel focused on unit economics, long term revenue and profitability projections, models for investors for both the carbon finance business as well as cross-departmental work specific to clean cookstoves for Sub-Saharan African markets.
• Develop and maintain internal tools to track carbon finance performance matrices.
• Conduct other quantitative and analytical tasks within the carbon finance department as needed.

You Have:
• Bachelor’s and/or Master’s Degree in a quantitative discipline with a strong grounding in science, math, engineering, business or other quantitative training
• Superior proficiency in Excel required, ability to create complex financial models, basic proficiency in Word and PowerPoint
• Passion to use market forces to address climate change
• Ability to express oneself verbally in a succinct and structured way to decision makers across a broad range of corporations
• Strong writing, analytical and quantitative skills
• Deadline driven, organized and able to multi-task
• Structured and analytic thinker
• Management consulting experience from an internationally known firm a plus Our Benefits:
• Comprehensive healthcare plans
• PTO and family leave
• Community bonus plan and equity stock options
• Adventure Stipend (after two years)
• Community engagement activities – we celebrate each other’s wins and work as a team!

Benefits found in job post
• Medical insurance

Interested applicants should apply on this link.

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