A Financial Career in Green Industries

If you are currently looking for a new career opportunity, or perhaps you are wondering if you can utilize your financial skills in the booming green industries, then you should read on and look at some opportunities that are being created worldwide.

The green industry is an interesting industry, while a large number of positions have been taken up by technical people such as engineers, there has been a consistent increasing demand in hiring financial professionals – as green industry, similar to the IT & Internet industry, requires a lot of professionals with strong financial skills.

Here are some opportunities for you to consider:

Capital Raising Professionals / Corporate Advisors

As you can see from IPOs announced globally this year, especially in USA and UK, Green companies has taken up very significant proportion of the IPOs. Capital raising is the word in Green industries, for the first 6 months to date, Venture Capital firms have poured funds into green industries more than other industries. Therefore, if you are an ex-investment banker, or if you have worked for venture capital firms, or if you have good financial analytical skills, you should consider joining one of the Greentech or renewable companies to help them to raise capital.

Financial Marketing Professionals

One position that has been quite interesting is those with good financial writing skills, such as journalists, investor relations professionals and financial writers. Many greentech companies tend to produce news & editorials with technical information, and need public relations & investor relations firms to help them to market the products as well as improve the branding awareness. Therefore, if you are a PR/IR professional, you should certainly consider targeting greentech companies for your services.

Financial Analysts

Trained financial analysts are also in demand from several sectors. First is the greentech companies themselves including renewable energy infrastructure companies, which require analysts to carry out pricing analysis, budgeting and also large scale infrastructure due diligence. Second, are the investment institutions who require analysts to analyse listed green companies, these include stockbroking firms, mutual funds; also venture capital & private equity firms.

Traders – Energy & Government Sectors

Another demand derive from energy & Government sectors; these include traders who understand financial derivatives, or who are professional options / commodities traders, or maybe those who have worked with financial exchanges in the past to set pricing and trading strategies for different types of financial instruments relating to energy and green industries.

I have a number of friends for instance left futures stock exchanges and joined JP Morgan, as well as different utilities companies as energy contracts trader, another had joined JP Morgan as a fund manager specializes in carbon credits and water rights analysis and trading desk.

As more and more green companies join onto listings, it will eventually become a very significant sector of many stockmarkets worldwide, we predict this means the demand for Green Financial Analysts will also continue to grow.

So, who says Green industries is just for technical people – I think Green industry is the great industry for financial professionals like you and me!

The new 2010 USA Green Employers Guide is coming out on Researchwhitepaper (http://researchwhitepaper.com) in June 2010. We have also published several reports relating to Green industries including Global Solar Companies Guide, Global Green Investors Guide and Top 200 USA Environmental Engineering Firms. All these are available from our website.