Senior Analyst - Investments & Valuation Offshore

Company: RWE Power AG
Location: Chicago
Posted on: February 25, 2021

Job Description:

Senior Analyst - Investments & Valuation Offshore To start as soon as possible, Full time, Permanent Functional area: Renewables-- RWE Renewables requires a Senior Analyst to join the Investments & Valuations Offshore Global (IVOG) team in the US. With a global team, predominantly located in Europe, this position requires a self-motivated, highly responsible, and sophisticated communicator to work with the existing IVOG Senior Manager to support various offshore initiatives, generally in North America. The IVOG team's main responsibilities are to support the Offshore Global business team in evaluating business opportunities, valuing projects and proposals, and driving the Investment Approval Process to deliver a clear articulation of opportunity and risk to management. The team serves as the governance function to ensure only fairly represented (challenging others when not) and appropriately analysed proposals reach the decision level. In addition, the team advises the business on key valuation drivers and dynamics to help guide tactical and strategic decision making at lower levels. Due to the international nature of the team, intellectual flexibility and cultural sensitivity are paramount, along with the more traditionally expected general professionalism. Responsibilities:

• Support aggressive growth ambitions in the Offshore (mainly US) renewables business
• Develop quantitative and qualitative analyses (including, as requires, models and calculations) of prospective investment opportunities and effectively communicate results
• Support investment approval process, including stakeholder management, verbal and quantitative analysis, and process management, ensuring clear, high quality, delivery of papers and presentations for RWE RES Board and RWE AG Board consideration
• Evaluate and challenge inputs to investment decisions, especially those inputs that are key to valuation results (including identifying key value drivers)
• Identify and implement process / valuation model improvements, including model standardization and proposing/implementing department-wide guidance
• Support financial due diligence and strategic & non-US initiatives as required, including quality control reviews
• Serve in the governance role to challenge assumptions while maintaining a commercial mindset on investment, divestment, bidding, and partnering decisions Qualifications:
  • Bachelor of Business Administration, Engineering, Computer Science or similar university degree required
  • Several years' experience in finance roles, including experience with financial modeling (DCF) and proficiency in Excel
  • Superb (quantitative and qualitative) analytical skills and an understanding of the relationship between commercial aggressiveness and shareholder responsibility
  • Superb written and oral communication skills, particularly including careful attention to detail, and ability to work under high pressure and tight deadlines while assuring high quality and accuracy
  • Positive attitude, even during challenging times, and the ability to have, and find, fun at work - "work hard and play hard." --Preferred
    • MBA or advanced degree with a focus on statistics, data analytics or other quantitative focus preferred OR finance, business or other professional designations (e.g. CFA, CPA, PMI)
    • Experience working with an international team in a complex organization, including sensitivity to different cultural and linguistic norms as well as a multitude of relevant departments
    • Knowledge of capital market theory and in-depth familiarity with valuation-related topics, in particular DCF valuation Apply now with just a few clicks: ad code 30282, Any questions? Benjamin Michalson (Recruiting) rwenarecruiting@rwe.com We look forward to meeting you! We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications, irrespective of gender, disability, nationality, ethnic and social background, religion and beliefs, age or sexual orientation and identity. Of course, you can find us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Xing, too. RWE represents change, innovation and sustainability. As one of the world's leading generators of electricity from renewable energy sources, we aim to be carbon-neutral by 2040 and to enable a sustainable life for people around the world. To achieve this, we invest heavily in the expansion of our renewables-- capacities. Our broad portfolio includes flexible, conventional energies and helps us provide clean, reliable and affordable electricity. 120 years of experience in the energy world and our four operative segments - renewable energies, lignite and nuclear power, European electricity generation from gas, coal, hydropower and biomass as well as global energy trading - are the foundation for the innovations of tomorrow. To achieve this, we are looking for dynamic and motivated people to join us in creating a sustainable and secure energy future. RWE Renewables GmbH, based in Essen, Germany, is RWE's youngest subsidiary and one of the world's leading companies in the field of renewable energies. With an international team of around 3,500 employees, we are drivers of the energy transition - and provide electricity for a sustainable life. Our total capacity of more than 9 gigawatts results from onshore and offshore wind parks, photovoltaic plants and battery storage. We focus on growth: on the American continent, on the European core markets and on new markets in the Asia-Pacific region. We are looking forward to your online application. You may add this job to your favourites. Click here to have a look at your job favourites.

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