# Business Development Associate, Acquisitions

**Company**: Southern Power Company
**Location**: Birmingham, AL
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

The Business Development team at Southern Power Company drives the company's long-term growth strategy through acquisitions, development, origination, and strategic partnerships in the energy sector.

As a Business Development Associate, Acquisitions, you will play a central role in advancing opportunities from initial evaluation through transaction execution and closing. You will work closely with Business Development Managers and cross-functional teams to independently own assigned workstreams, coordinate due diligence activities, analyze project economics and valuations, develop recommendations, prepare indicative bid proposals, track key milestones, and help resolve commercial, financial, technical, and other transaction-related matters.

Key responsibilities include:

- Contributing to the successful execution of Southern Power's growth strategy, with a focus on acquisitions

- Identifying, evaluating, and prioritizing acquisition opportunities across multiple generation technologies, including renewables and natural gas

- Performing market research, screening, and competitive analysis to assess strategic fit, commercial attractiveness, and investment potential

- Leading assigned due diligence workstreams and contributing to negotiations, valuation analyses, and transaction structuring efforts

- Coordinating acquisition execution activities, monitoring key milestones, and driving timely completion of due diligence requirements

- Independently analyzing project matters, developing recommendations, and facilitating resolution with internal and external stakeholders

- Identifying and implementing improvements to the process, from deal sourcing to closing

- Contributing to Business Development initiatives that leverage approved AI-enabled tools to streamline recurring workflows, organize and synthesize diligence information, and support the preparation of deal summaries, presentations, and other work products

- Preparing and maintaining deal status summaries and presentations for senior management

- Maintaining acquisition pipeline and project data, improving data quality and consistency, and supporting dashboards, management reporting, and trend analysis

- Identifying, developing, testing, and documenting practical AI and automation use cases that enhance team productivity, while applying sound judgment, validating outputs, and protecting confidential information

- Developing and maintaining productive working relationships with internal stakeholders and external counterparties to facilitate opportunity evaluation and transaction execution

Preferred qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (Business, Engineering, Finance, etc.)

- Master's degree a plus

- Experience with the power industry, particularly in acquisitions or project evaluation

- Experience with the due diligence process, transaction execution, and/or contract negotiations

- Experience leading projects or workstreams that required coordination across multiple stakeholders, management of competing priorities, and successful deliverables

- Demonstrated initiative, adaptability, and the ability to contribute effectively in a fast-paced environment

- Experience leveraging AI-enabled tools, workflow automation, data visualization, CRM, or other business technology platforms to improve efficiency, analysis, reporting, or decision-making

## Skills

### Required
- Project management
- Financial analysis
- Contract negotiation
- Data analysis
- AI-enabled tools
- Workflow automation
- Communication skills

### Nice to have
- Power industry experience
- Acquisitions experience
- Project evaluation experience
- Due diligence process experience
- Transaction execution experience
- Contract negotiation experience

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