Energy Marketing & Trading Financial Analyst, Associate Specialist

Responsibilities

• Prepares analytical support for projects and initiatives that help shape SCE's strategy.
• Follows horizon planning capabilities through scenario development in the face of uncertainty driven by exogenous market factors, like climate change and emerging technologies.
• Assists in deploying analytical models and grid planning simulation tools to support the development of resource portfolios under various future scenarios.
• Maintains oversight of regulator demands and assists in documenting communications with state agencies about California's energy and reliability needs.
• Assists in researching the cost-effectiveness and potential of new technologies for supply and demand-side energy resources.
• Identifies improvement areas to alternative analytical models and methods for a variety of applications, including evaluating energy policies, regulations, climate change impacts, and new business models.
• Participates in the analysis of market trends in the energy and ancillary services markets.
• Gathers contract requirements, reviews payments, manages disputes and makes recommendations to maximize benefits to customers.
• Contributes to statistical and econometric models to forecast electricity demand and energy commodity prices to support position management and hedging.

Qualifications

• Experience in financial planning, modeling and/or forecasting.
• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Econometrics, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or other related quantitative field.
• Experience developing and applying analytical tools using R and/or Python to code various types of large data.
• Experience developing data pipelines with Python and/or SQL from back-end databases.
• Demonstrated interest in energy/electric system analysis.
• Experience with statistics and machine-learning models.
• Experience with advanced Excel functions (i.e. Pivot Tables, V lookup, Macros and VBA).
• Experience using data visualization tools (i.e. ArcGIS, PowerBI or Tableau).
• Demonstrated knowledge of power markets, GHG policies and markets, and related regulatory requirements that govern SCE’s participation in them.