Albert Samson Mukumbukeni

Renewable Energy Project Finance Professional with over 6+ years of experience in project finance, financial modelling, valuation, and structuring financing solutions across renewable energy and data analytics sectors. Proven expertise in evaluating project feasibility using NPV, IRR, DSCR, and cash flow modelling. Strong track record in due diligence, risk management, and structuring bankable energy projects across Southern and East Africa.

Adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams to execute complex financing transactions while optimizing returns and mitigating risk.

Financial Modeller – Project Finance - Distributed Power Africa - Zimbabwe (Oct 2019 – April 2024), South Africa & Kenya (Oct 2019 – Present)

(2019-10 - 2024-04)

• Develop and maintain complex financial models for renewable energy projects which include solar and BESS.
• Structure financing solutions using debt, equity, and hybrid instruments.
• Engage with lenders and financial institutions during project finance transactions, supporting deal structuring, financial negotiations, and funding processes.
• Led financial due diligence processes with legal, technical, and external stakeholders.
• Update financial models with PPAs, EPC contracts, O&M agreements, SHA agreements and country regulator assumptions.
• Assessed risks including regulatory, currency, and market volatility, and designed mitigation strategies.
• Prepared investment memoranda for Investment Committee.

Part – Time Statistics Lecturer - Bindura University of Science Education - Zimbabwe

(2021-05 - 2021-09)

• I taught undergraduate courses in Operations Research for Finance and Applied Statistics.
• Developed and delivered lectures on statistical hypothesis testing, regression analysis, distributions, and probability.
• Prepared exam materials and marked test scripts for 1st and 2nd-year students.

Data Analyst - Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe

(2019-03 - 2019-10)

• Manning, cleaning, pruning, analyzing and interpreting results from regulatory compliance data collected from primary and secondary sources using standard statistical tools.
• Pinpoints trends, identify correlations and build patterns and relationships in complicated regulatory compliance data sets, drawing insights to uncover operational inefficiencies and non-compliance situations.
• Reviews compliance assessment results, leveraging both qualitative and quantitative techniques as well as benchmarking probabilistic and non-probabilistic approaches that lead to a broad view of non-compliance risk areas.
• Provide concise data reports and clear data visualizations for reporting.
• Identifies and recommends innovative, automated and analytics driven approaches and develops targeted compliance recommendations that enable robust and targeted solutions.

Research Statistician - Zimbabwe Council of Churches - Zimbabwe

(2019-03 - 2019-10)

• Designing data collection activities, research methodology strategy and tools for conducting quantitative and qualitative research surveys and training of enumerators.
• Assisting the M&E Officer in strategic planning of activities and creating frameworks and procedures for the monitoring and evaluation of project activities.
• Import/Collect, clean, convert and analyze large datasets for statistical analysis to find insights and making conclusions using statistical tools (R, STATA, SPSS) and techniques.
• Data management and quantitative data analytical skills working with different datasets including running SQL queries.
• Compiling detailed reports using data reporting tools.

Certificate - Finance, Contracts and Risk for Power Investments in Africa - Graduate School of Business – University of Cape Town (2021)

Certificate - Applied Data Science - World Quant University (2019)

Master of Science - Operations Research and Statistics, Financial Modelling - National University of Science and Technology, Harare, Zimbabwe (2016)

Bachelor of Science - Operations Research and Statistics, Applied Statistics - National University of Science and Technology, Harare, Zimbabwe (2013)