ACCIONA Looking for Jr. Asset Analyst at Chicago, IL Full Time

Acciona Power Marketing is responsible for maximizing revenues from the operating and development fleet of generation assets while originating innovative structures to meet customer demand. Power Marketing is the commercial interface to the marketplace and is charge with mitigating portfolio risk while being opportunistic in the market to add value to the company.

The Jr. Asset Analyst will be involved in the lifecycle of project optimization from inception through to Real-Time assisting with ST and LT Optimization analysis, Structured Trade analysis, and fundamental market analysis.

Responsibilities:

· Participate in daily calls with third-party market analysts; identify potential issues and opportunities for assets in day-ahead and real-time markets.

· Serve as backup for the submission of market offers/bids for the renewable asset portfolio.

· Interface with market operators/ third-party vendors to ensure market offer / bid submissions, data submission / acquisition meets needs, objectives, and regulations as needed.

• Perform data analyses (e.g. prices, production, day-ahead, real-time) to support optimization and structured trades.
• Present consolidated analysis and make recommendations for hedge strategies, transaction execution, and management/investor presentations.
• Build visualizations in tools such as PowerBI for asset and hedge positions, market data historical and forward analysis, and other requests from the team.
• Participate in cross-department projects as needed to advance execution and operational capabilities of the Power Marketing function.
• Perform analyses of electrical grid operations, congestion, power flows, etc. using various sources including third-party vendor software / licenses, internally captured data, confidential market data, and publicly available information.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field such as Physics, Mathematics, Business or Engineering.
• Some experience in electricity markets and renewables at an energy company, independent power producer or utility.
• Passion for the energy markets and strong commercial instincts.
• Ability to program in languages such as R and Python.
• Ability to query large data sets and create reports in tools such as Power BI.
• Strong organization, analytical, project, and process management skills.
• Desire to independently research and understand complicated, and sometimes ambiguous, market rules, contracts, and regulations.
• Willingness and ability to accurately perform complex and involved analyses.