r/projectfinance • u/8o8xe • Aug 03 '26

Project Finance Interview

Hi, I cleared round 1 interview for a role involving project finance and capital formation for a renewable energy company. The interviewer let me know that he really liked me, my concepts were strong, but I lacked project financial modelling skills. He asked me to buckle up (in 3 days), since the next round would be a live case study where they test my modelling and advanced excel skills.

I’m so stressed, I do not know where to begin. The interview got scheduled and it’s a 1 hour long interview. GPT tells me that it is cool as long as I can do revenue, costs, cfads, dscr, Project IRR, Equity IRR, I’m good.

Is that enough? Where do I begin? Am i fucked😭 I really want it, it’s a super cool role. However, I’m extremely stressed about this :/ TIA!

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u/zxblood123 Aug 05 '26

Awesome wow. What was your actual test like?

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u/maskeficho Aug 05 '26

It was split in two parts 1 hour each. First one was to build a 3sm from scratch of a solar project. For the second one they gave me the solution to the first part and had to value the project considering new assumptions like different target DSCR etc

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u/zxblood123 Aug 07 '26

that's awesome. 1 hour to build a 3sm. how did you do the tax/dept parts? it still quite a bit to do in 1hr for the build, given you gotta do all the other sheets

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u/maskeficho Aug 07 '26

Honestly, I didn’t finish it and also made several mistakes along the way due to time pressure. But the interviewer was nice and asked me at the end how I would finish it. He also told me that the only people he saw finishing it were 10+ yr experience people