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About the Role
Lead analytical work on M&A opportunities in the energy and battery-storage sectors, shape investment decisions, and support deal execution. This senior role involves owning key analytical workstreams, coordinating cross-functional input, and ensuring high-quality decision-ready outputs to expand and strengthen the company's portfolio.
Responsibilities
- Analyze markets, competitors, regulation, and technology across the energy and battery-storage sectors.
- Source and evaluate M&A opportunities, including BESS deals, and support due diligence through to deal close.
- Build and review financial models, investment cases, valuation scenarios, and cost analyses.
- Structure analytical approaches and produce clear, decision-ready materials for senior stakeholders.
- Own analytical workstreams end-to-end, manage concurrent projects, and escalate issues with proposed solutions.
- Coordinate input from internal teams and work with external stakeholders, including banks, co-investors, and partners.
- Support portfolio optimization, growth initiatives, and post-acquisition integration.
- Guide junior analysts, review their work, and help maintain quality standards across team deliverables.
Requirements
- Degree in business, finance, or a STEM field.
- Experience in M&A, investment analysis, corporate finance, consulting, financial modelling, or business analysis.
- Strong financial-modelling skills, including DCF, IRR, NPV, scenario analysis, and investment cases.
- Advanced analytical capability and ability to structure complex problems independently.
- Solid data-handling, analysis, and visualisation skills.
- Fluency in German and English is required.
- Curious, quick to learn, and comfortable applying critical and creative thinking to business problems.
Skills
- M&A
- Investment analysis
- Corporate finance
- Consulting
- Financial modelling
- Business analysis
- DCF
- IRR
- NPV
- Scenario analysis
- Investment cases
- Data handling
- Data analysis
- Data visualisation
- Python (plus)
- Automation (plus)
Location
- Berlin
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- Degree in business, finance or a STEM field
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive remuneration package with attractive variable component
Benefits
- Flexible working hours
- Home office options
- High-end work equipment (devices optionally from Apple, Samsung, Lenovo)
- Short decision-making paths
- Rapid development opportunities
- Individual training opportunities
About the Company
- Second Foundation is a global energy trading company with around 450 employees.
- Specializes in power market trading and in the integration and optimization of renewable energy and battery storage systems.
- Actively expanding its own asset base, with a primary focus on battery storage.