Investment & Valuation Associate

Job Description

Investment & Valuation Associate | RWE

The Tone:
This is a full-time, permanent role at RWE Americas, LLC, located in Chicago, IL with a hybrid work model expecting three days in the office each week. RWE Americas, a subsidiary of RWE, is a US-based energy company dedicated to meeting the growing energy demand across the United States. The company operates approximately 13 GW of power projects across 27 states, with a workforce of 2,000 employees, developing, constructing, and operating wind, solar, and battery storage projects, alongside natural gas-powered generation. This Investment & Valuation Associate role is critical as it supports the company’s strong US growth ambitions, delivering key analysis for valuation assignments and contributing to investment recommendations, thereby enabling approximately $20 billion in planned US investment over the next six years. It offers an ideal opportunity to build foundational market expertise, develop depth in project finance, and bridge technical and financial perspectives.

The TL;DR
• Role: Early Career
• Type: Full-time, Permanent
• Location: Hybrid, Chicago, IL
• Pay: $77000–$115000 yearly
• Team: Investment & Valuation (I&V) team at RWE Americas (RWEA)
• Mission: This person drives value-added growth through critical analysis, strategic guidance, and rigorous governance across a growing pipeline of utility-scale renewable energy investments.
• Tech Stack: Excel

What You’ll Actually Do
• Investment Analysis: Develop analyses of investment opportunities and communicate results clearly, owning discrete analytical tasks and modeling deliverables across solar, wind, and battery storage investments under senior guidance.
• Decision Process Support: Draft sections of investment memos and synthesize analytical inputs, supporting the preparation of decision materials for senior management.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Collaborate across the I&V team and coordinate inputs from development, commercial, and technical functions to gather and validate project data and insights, adapting communication to the audience.
• Model Quality Assurance: Propose improvements to financial models and templates, and perform peer reviews and quality checks on financial models and analytical outputs.
• Process Improvement: Support the identification and implementation of enhancements to investment processes and financial models, including exploring advanced digital tools.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor of Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a similar university degree, with foundational knowledge of valuation methodologies, especially Discounted Cash Flow (DCF).
• Experience: Minimum 1 year experience in Finance roles.
• Skills: Proficiency in Excel, including the ability to run existing financial models, scenarios, and sensitivities with guidance; effective communication and presentation skills; ability to build and update financial models with growing fluency, applying valuation frameworks accurately; understanding of key valuation levers and basic assumptions that drive value, including capex, offtake pricing, and terms; capability to perform standard scenario analysis and begin identifying valuation sensitivities and potential optimizations.
• Bonus: Interest in renewable energy or energy markets.