Energy Market & Trading Analyst

Responsibilities

• Providing support for various acquisition and divestiture efforts, primarily through the support of asset market and trading activities, analysis of and certifications related to hedging and trading opportunities
• Strong understanding of the fragmented power markets across the United States, sound knowledge of trading products, analytical and programming capability and structuring expertise
• Perform market analysis to determine short and long term trading opportunities in the commodity markets (Power, FTRs, emissions, RECs,natural gas, oil, coal, natural gas basis, power basis)
• Directly oversee third parties who are leading the day-to-day commercial strategies for generating facilities (bidding, procuring fuel, outage coordination, etc)
• Utilize industry fundamental and technical analysis to research market dynamics and assess trade and hedge positions
• Monitor market, industry, product and pricing trends
• Assist with structuring and negotiating documentation to put trades into place
• Provide asset valuation support for company’s acquisition and development activity
• Assist acquisition efforts in assessing and underwriring revenue streams for target power generation facilities
• Participate with the acquisition and development team to evaluate strategic hedging alternatives
• Develop power generation hedging strategies across market regions to maximize profitability and minimize margin volatility
• Hedging would focus on the gross margin value streams such as power, ancillaries, and capacity
• Formulate risk management and trading strategies
• Ensure compliance with strategic objectives and existing risk controls
• Apply statistical and econometric analysis to raw Power and Gas data sets to form robust conclusions with predictive value

Qualifications

• Hold a Bachelor’s Degree
• Have a minimum of three years of trading, structuring, and/or analytical support experience within the power industry
• Have analytic, modeling, and fundamental research skills including demonstrated capability utilizing programming languages (writing, reading and editing code)
• Possess working knowledge of various trade capture and programming systems
• Have excellent written and oral communication skills
• Are able to work on a number of simultaneous projects with minimal supervision and exemplary follow-through