Investment Advisor

at  Vattenfall

Company Description
Vattenfall is one of Europe’s largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat. Our main markets are Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK. The Vattenfall Group has approximately 20,000 employees. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes and transforming life through innovation for more than 100 years. We now want to make fossil free living possible and we are driving the transition to a sustainable energy system.
Job Description
Are you eager to engage closely with all Business Areas across Vattenfall and support the decision makers at the executive level?
Your responsibilities in Transaction Analysis
Transaction Analysis, part of Risk Management, is an international and experienced team which is engaged across all Vattenfall countries. The team is tasked with providing independent advice to senior management (e.g. CEO) in order to make the risk/reward balance of business proposals transparent, strengthen business cases where possible and support Vattenfall’s strategy in enabling fossil free living within one generation. The role offers you the unique combination of being involved in strategic group decisions and working in close proximity to Vattenfall’s main commercial activities.

Key responsibilities:

• Provide senior management with an assessment and advice on major business proposals, with a focus on the risk reward balance;
• Review investment/divestment proposals, new products and complex structured deals throughout the Vattenfall Group (e.g. wind farms, e-mobility, innovative technologies, decentralised energy, commodity derivatives) to examine robustness of the proposal and potential dependencies/impact:
• Identify risks to key value drivers (e.g. operational, market, commercial, reputational, regulatory);
• Aim to enhance proposals from a (portfolio) risk mitigation perspective;
• Verify valuation and financial models to assess the economic viability of proposals;
• Review key contracts and ensure consistency with valuation and commercial aims;
• Submit reports including advice and recommendations to executive level.
• Engage and discuss business proposals with project teams and relevant staff functions (e.g. Finance, Legal), to support the business through constructive feedback.
• Participate in Value Assurance Review workshops to support the project organisation in assessing the readiness of their largest investment projects.

Qualifications

YOUR PROFILE AS AN INVESTMENT ADVISOR

We are looking for a colleague with a curious and critical mind. You are enthusiastic with a willingness to learn, enjoy working as part of a team and strive for continuous improvement. You use your interpersonal and communication skills in order to build and manage relationships with commercial and technical colleagues alike.

You can recognise yourself in the following qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in a relevant role (e.g. strategy advisor, project management, financial or business analyst).
• Numerate, with a commercial interest in order to develop an understanding of complex business proposals;
• University degree in engineering, science, finance or other relevant subject;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. Swedish and/or German language skills are an advantage.

Additional Information

• Provide senior management with an assessment and advice on major business proposals, with a focus on the risk reward balance;
• Review investment/divestment proposals, new products and complex structured deals throughout the Vattenfall Group (e.g. wind farms, e-mobility, innovative technologies, decentralised energy, commodity derivatives) to examine robustness of the proposal and potential dependencies/impact:
• Identify risks to key value drivers (e.g. operational, market, commercial, reputational, regulatory);
• Aim to enhance proposals from a (portfolio) risk mitigation perspective;
• Verify valuation and financial models to assess the economic viability of proposals;
• Review key contracts and ensure consistency with valuation and commercial aims;
• Submit reports including advice and recommendations to executive level.
• Engage and discuss business proposals with project teams and relevant staff functions (e.g. Finance, Legal), to support the business through constructive feedback.
• Participate in Value Assurance Review workshops to support the project organisation in assessing the readiness of their largest investment projects