Graduate Rotational Analyst - Risk and M&A

NRG Energy is focused on creating a smarter, cleaner, and more connected future in the energy sector. They are seeking a Graduate Rotational Analyst for their Graduate Rotation Program, which involves two one-year rotations in different departments, aimed at developing future leaders through hands-on experience in risk management and M&A. The role includes various analytical responsibilities and collaboration across teams to support the company's operations and strategic initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Production of Daily/Monthly P&L/Position reports
• Provide insight into positions and risk of the portfolio
• Validate end of day results in the risk systems
• Leverage problem solving and analytical skills to enhance and automate numerous risk processes
• Collaborate effectively within the Risk Management team and other departments on issues/projects
• Support reporting requests from NRG’s internal and external auditors
• Work closely with IT on risk system improvements
• Ad hoc requests for trading/management
• Provide analytical support on a variety of M&A transactions, strategy projects and venture capital investments
• Develop, maintain and/or review complex financial models (including valuation and sensitivity analyses) to support decision making for investments and M&A activities
• Ensure that all assumptions and modeling techniques are appropriate and reasonable and confirm that model accurately reflects the terms and conditions contained in key project documentation
• Work closely with business units, tax, accounting, various technical teams and advisors to prepare detailed forecast of profit and loss, cash flows and balance sheet for acquisition or investment targets
• Monitor competitive landscape, be able to assess implications for NRG and communicate salient points to the team and management as needed
• Assist in determination of key value drivers of NRG’s corporate valuation
• Assist in evaluation of a variety of financial structures necessary to support contemplated transactions
• Prepare recommendations to be presented to senior management
• Coordinate and manage due diligence for contemplated transactions
• Assist in providing data for NRG earnings releases and other corporate functions, such as meetings of the Board of Directors and executive leadership
• Create and maintain reports summarizing the ongoing performance of venture capital portfolio and strategic investments
• Assist in providing regular updates of key corporate valuation metrics including performing financial analysis to determine present and future financial performance
• Complete ad-hoc projects and create reports as needed

Skills

• Degree discipline: Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Mathematics, Information Systems, Computer Science
• Must have graduated no longer than 6 months from program start
• Must have a 3.3 or higher GPA
• Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis without sponsorship

Benefits

• Medical
• Vision
• Dental
• 401K
• Flexible spending accounts

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