Location London
Job-type Permanent
Salary £Competitive
Reference 20432

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity in the energy industry?

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Our client is a leading global distributed energy company with the purpose of bringing together people, energy, and markets to power and navigate a changing world. Their mission is to pursue commercial opportunities with best-in-class insight and expertise, leveraging innovative digital solutions, sustainable outcomes, and close collaboration. They are looking to hire a Lead Commercial Analyst to join a dynamic, international, and geographically diverse team.

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About the Role

The Lead Commercial Analyst will be responsible for the detailed analysis of all integrated technologies, including H2, power, e-fuels, and several commodities, such as power, fuels, and green certificates, in all core and future markets. Your role will also involve identifying, analyzing, and quantifying new revenue streams and structuring integrated energy products on behalf of projects while understanding the portfolio effects for the low-carbon business.

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Key Responsibilities

As the Lead Commercial Analyst, your key responsibilities will include:

  • Evaluating different offtake products for new and existing projects and pricing detailed PPA, and HPPAs configurations, e.g., real-time vs day-ahead price, zero price floor, busbar vs. hub pricing, etc., in support of auction alternatives, T&S, etc.

  • Recommending monetization strategy based on Group Risk Approach for all new and existing assets following Portfolio KPIs.

  • Developing ad hoc approaches for the valuation of bespoke contracts, embedded risks, and optionality.

  • Developing and maintaining an integrated energy (asset-specific) portfolio income model and monitoring KPIs to provide investment, divestments, and hedging recommendations.

  • Developing Commercial portfolio strategy, reporting, and recommendations for portfolio steering regarding revenue maximization and risk reduction, optimizing portfolio composition for return and risk tolerance.

  • Supporting commercial functions with commercial expertise.

  • Supporting Strategy and Regulation teams to reflect current and future market and regulatory scenarios used to value the commercials of assets.

  • Preparing ad hoc market analysis reports.

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Essential Experience and Education

To qualify for this role, you will need the following qualifications and experience:

  • PhD / Master's degree in an analytical/numerical subject, preferably Engineering, Economics, Statistics, or Mathematics, and appropriate professional experience with at least three years of working experience or a comparable university career in relevant market analysis areas.

  • Previous experience working in a commercial function within an energy commodity environment, preferably with exposure to integrated energy sources in European, Americas, or Asian power and hydrogen markets.

  • Substantial experience in Energy Economics and electricity markets, specifically working with market studies of revenue price forecasts, imbalance modelling, value factor development, and revenues from support mechanisms.

  • Strong Excel skills, i.e., able to use functionalities at an expert level, including working with macros and VBA functions, and integrating Excel with external data sources.

  • Experience in programming and/or optimization languages, e.g., Matlab, Python, or GAMS, PLEXOS, database management (i.e., Access), and capability to develop, document, and maintain models.

  • The ability to communicate clearly and in a customer-oriented way, specifically the ability to structure and present complex information adequately to a (senior) management-level audience (both written and verbal).

  • Strong interpersonal and presentational skills (expert user of PowerPoint), plus the ability to deal with uncertainty linked to cross-cultural projects.

  • Fluent English language skills. Very good knowledge of other languages where the leading global distributed energy company operates is of advantage.

  • Highly proactive, identifying value opportunities and proposing solutions to them under their own initiative.

  • Capable of maintaining positive working relationships while adhering to demanding deadlines.

  • Team player and highly motivated.

  • Enthusiastic about learning, pushing technical limits, and finding new solutions/out-of-the-box thinking.

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If you are a self-starter with excellent communication and technical skills, and you are passionate about driving the energy transition, we would love to hear from you. This is an exciting opportunity to join a leading global energy company and contribute to the development of low-carbon energy solutions. If you are interested, please apply directly, or contact Bibin Emmanuel at bibin.emmanuel@acre.com.