Senior Financial Manager Baltic States (PL) RWE Renewables Offshore

RWE Renewables Poland Sp. z o.o, Warszawa

To start as soon as possible, Full time, Permanent

Functional area: Finance / Controlling 

Your role

In joining our Projects & Investments team your role shall be to act as Senior Financial Manager for our large scale Offshore Wind Farms project developments. The role is a key and challenging project role; responsible for coordination and steering of all financial and financial related workstreams of an early stage project and leading into relevant milestone decisions (auction bids, devex, capex).

Your future plans:

• Managing the wider Financial team in the project.
• Coordination of respective Finance and Finance related workstreams (functional responsibility sits within the responsible line functions), in particular:
  • Ownership of the assumption book and cost book
  • Identification of the required timing for business case updates and the required level of detail of the business case
  • Aligning financial model works and results with those works of the owners (RWE and partners) incl. steering of financial advisors
  • Management and coordination of project’s risk & opportunity register in close collaboration with package managers and financial adviser including preparation of appropriate contingency analysis and insurance coordination aspects
  • Responsibility for all cost management systems (incl. contract management, change control) within the project
  • Coordination of accounting and tax workstreams
  • Ownership of the budgeting process and project cost controls (incl. cash calls to investors) and respective reporting processes
  • Cooperation with legal, procurement and commercial functions based on governance guidelines of these
  • Coordination of efforts taking care of developing bankable project structures incl. construction and operational contracts
• Ability to derive and check credible financial assumptions from benchmarking against other RWER projects and industry wide practices
• Identification (and drive where necessary) of areas whereby the project economic return could be optimized; perform all necessary analysis into the areas and present results and the recommendation for consideration and approval
• Continuous financial review and monitoring of the project economics and the reporting of results as required both within the project team (project director) and to the project steering committee, e.g. analyzing the implications of changes to MW capacity and size and timing of project phasing
• Represents project from a finance perspective at steering committees and board meetings
• Ensure all financial/commercial considerations regarding grid connections are considered 
• Support of preparation of bid group papers/proposals including support of development of bid tactics in cooperation with the project director as well as the Commercial bid manager
• Preparation of project approval papers 
• Setting up a project specific governance and ensure that these are aligned where required with the project owners - particularly with RWER, if in the lead role
• Ensure (financial) best practice is delivered across pipeline projects and lessons learned are collected, provided and applied to the project and packages 

Your profile:

• Experience in large scale projects, preferably in offshore projects
• Broad finance background (in particular valuation, project financing, controlling)
• Accounting experience beneficial
• University degree in business administration, banking or economics
• Strength in applying a structured working approach
• Strong analytical and communicational skills
• Experience in leading and motivating teams
• Knows how to work in and with international groups 
• Capable to present in front of groups (team, steering committees etc)
• Fluent English, other languages (e.g. German) will be an advantage
• Integrative and trustful personality
• Willingness to undertake all required project related business trips 
• Able to work on the one hand independently and on the other hand successfully in international teams (dedicated team player)

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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 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.