Commercial Quantitative Associate

About the role

The Commercial Analytics Associate will join the U.S. Commercial Analytics team at ContourGlobal, a KKR company. ContourGlobal is an Independent Power Producer focused on developing, acquiring, and operating electricity generation and storage assets across various regions. The company is transforming towards a predominantly renewable IPP, with a portfolio of 5.5 GW managed and an additional 800 MW under construction.

Key Responsibilities

• Enable Data-Driven Decisions
• Deliver insight-driven recommendations to support trading, origination, and risk mitigation
• Collaborate across Asset Management, M&A, and Business Development teams to embed analytics into key commercial workflows
• Assist in managing consultants and advisors with the evaluation of scenario inputs and results.
• Develop Quantitative Models
• Support development of advanced models for forecasting, pricing, risk management, and asset optimization
• Aid in establishing scalable analytics processes, tools, and governance frameworks to support real-time and long-term commercial decision-making
• Model BESS, solar, gas-generating resources, as well as the overall regional portfolio
• Support structuring of Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), fuel procurement strategies, and market bidding decisions.
• Design & Manage Data Infrastructure and Analytics Function
• Build and maintain a robust data architecture that integrates market, asset, trading, and financial data
• Develop automated pipelines and storage solutions to support large-scale, real-time energy data
• Ensure data quality, consistency, and accessibility across the commercial organization
• Develop dashboards and reporting tools to enhance visibility into portfolio and asset performance.

Qualifications and Skills

• 5+ years of experience in commercial analytics, quantitative modeling, or data architecture within the energy, utilities, or commodity trading sectors
• Familiarity with U.S. power, gas, REC markets and evolving market changes
• Understanding operations and modeling for renewable (solar and BESS) and gas-fired technologies
• Expertise in programming and data manipulation (e.g., R, Python, SQL, MatLab or similar) and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau or similar) for power applications
• Experience with power optimization and/or risk software (Promod, Plexos, cQuant or similar)
• Familiar with power portfolio risk metrics including GMaR, VaR and other related
• Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s in a quantitative or business field preferred
• Strong background in time-series forecasting, optimization, or machine learning
• Familiarity with energy modeling, trading, and risk management platforms and their integration with commercial operations and investment decisions
• Experience building dashboards and reports
• Strong skills for scenario modeling and ad hoc analysis
• Exposure to big data environments and modern data warehousing tools is a plus
• Expertise in scalable data infrastructure, including data pipelines, storage, cloud platforms, and governance frameworks, is a plus
• Knowledge of thermal or renewable power generation cycles
• Experience troubleshooting or knowledge of industrial communication protocols (OPC, Modbus)

Skills

• Strong background in time-series forecasting, optimization, or machine learning
• Familiarity with energy modeling, trading, and risk management platforms and their integration with commercial operations and investment decisions
• Experience building dashboards and reports
• Strong skills for scenario modeling and ad hoc analysis
• Exposure to big data environments and modern data warehousing tools is a plus
• Expertise in scalable data infrastructure, including data pipelines, storage, cloud platforms, and governance frameworks, is a plus
• Knowledge of thermal or renewable power generation cycles
• Experience troubleshooting or knowledge of industrial communication protocols (OPC, Modbus)

Values

We are doers, committed to doing things right
We act with integrity and transparency
We think and act like entrepreneurs
We foster a culture where individuals are empowered to succeed, contribute and shape the future of sustainable energy.

Our Values

We are doers, committed to doing things right
We act with integrity and transparency
We think and act like entrepreneurs
We foster a culture where individuals are empowered to succeed, contribute and shape the future of sustainable energy.