Have a modeling test coming up with CRC IB for an Analyst position, anyone have advice on how to prep?
I've been practicing by building different solar or renewable models, any further advice would be super super helpful
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I believe they use Pivotal180 for their training so I’d recommend using their models to review. A decent amount of their lessons are available free on YouTube. Make sure you understand how all assumptions play into a solar/wind model and how tax equity factors in to the whole thing.
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It depends which modeling test you refer to. They have two during their interview. One is to see how creatively you can use the excel to analyze the move of liquid between buckets and make a quick presentation on that with your quick findings. Another is to build solar/wind farm model.
Each test challenge you in different aspect. First one truly require some creativity and not that straight forward as it might seem. Second one, is not very complicated, but the major issue is time. You literally having 45 minutes to build a full model via zoom or in person. It is pretty stressfull and you have to be ready to build that model in a very short period of time and answers all questions in their case. Pivotal180 is helpful, but only to the degree to give you a general knowledge of how to approach. You need a lot of practice to achieve the timeline required. However need to give a disclaimer, I was doing it for Associate position, maybe analyst test is different, but likely same, maybe they just give little more time
Curious if they’d heavily test tax equity and efficient/non efficient tax payer, or simply stop at tax credit treatment. Thanks!
PM me. I can shed some light from my process with them
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i did this last year, quite non descript random problem they will design for you thats not finance related at all, for example, there are two airports with x number of flights landing, each airport has xyz capacity, flights take 1 hour to stall before departure etc, model the trafifc for the airport
Was this for SA?
How did it go?
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