Director, Project Finance – Digital Infrastructure

Job Description

Investment & Corporate Banking | Infrastructure & Project Finance | Digital Infrastructure – Vice President | Mizuho

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Mizuho, located in New York, NY. Mizuho’s Project Finance platform operates globally and consistently ranks as a top provider in the Americas. This team delivers comprehensive financial advisory, debt structuring, and arrangement services for large-scale, capital-intensive infrastructure projects across various sectors, with a particular focus on digital infrastructure like data centers. This Vice President role is critical to the platform’s success, focusing on the end-to-end execution of complex non-recourse project finance transactions within the digital infrastructure sector, directly contributing to Mizuho’s continued top-tier status and client service excellence.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, New York, NY
• Pay: $250000–$275000 yearly
• Team: Part of the Project Finance team within Investment Banking, leading Analysts and Associates and reporting to Senior Bankers.
• Mission: Lead the end-to-end process of originating, structuring, underwriting, and executing non-recourse project finance transactions, particularly within digital infrastructure.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Transaction Origination & Execution: Independently manage all components of non-recourse project finance transactions in the digital infrastructure sector, encompassing origination, structuring, underwriting, and execution, ensuring strong judgment and ownership.
• Client & Business Development: Drive business growth by cultivating relationships with top-tier and emerging developers, financial sponsors, and strategic operators, and by preparing and negotiating proposals alongside senior bankers.
• Financial Structuring & Analysis: Evaluate diverse financing alternatives across bank and capital markets, including bonds and private placements, perform in-depth industry and market analysis, cash flow modeling, and lead the preparation of credit applications.
• Team Leadership & Coordination: Mentor, develop, and train Analysts and Associates across the platform, prioritize responsibilities across multiple transactions, and coordinate internal and external workstreams involving clients, lenders, legal counsel, and consultants.
• Strategic Collaboration & Cross-Selling: Work closely with internal partners across Capital Markets to evaluate and execute optimal financing solutions, and cross-sell a broad range of Mizuho’s financial services, contributing to the group’s overall business plan.

The Must-Haves
• Background: MBA, MS or LLM degrees with a strong quantitative background, or other relevant work experience as a Vice President focusing on Project Finance and credit within a commercial bank.
• Experience: 7+ years of experience in Project Finance and 5+ years of credit experience specifically within a commercial bank setting.
• Skills: Excellent communication and presentation abilities, strong analytical skills, and advanced proficiency in Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Bonus: Established client relationships with top-tier and mid-tier sponsors, along with existing relationships with other project finance banks, ECAs, multi-laterals, and development banks.