Market Operations Analyst

Full-time, exempt position reporting to the Senior Manager of Market Analysis.

About the role

The Market Operations Analyst applies quantitative reasoning, problem-solving, operations research methods, and programming skills to assist the market operations team in optimizing battery energy storage system dispatch (charging and discharging) across the Key Capture Energy fleet.

Responsibilities

• Build a fundamental understanding of daily energy market operations in various jurisdictions.
• Monitor real-time market conditions, asset availability, and strategy performance to identify emerging risks and opportunities.
• Support the management of company assets day-to-day, including via bid submission and code debugging.
• Understand factors impacting electricity prices and collaborate with the team to improve price forecasts and ingest into bidding models.
• Develop and assess new models as necessary to improve PNL.
• Design, support, and contribute to the build-out of automated power market bidding/trading strategies using Python and SQL.
• Analyze and manipulate datasets in MS SQL Server.
• Collaborate with the development team to support the build-out of necessary infrastructure for analytics work.
• Build PowerBI dashboards that transform data into information that informs market decisions.
• Build analytical reports and models to support energy trading.
• All other duties as required.

Requirements

• 0-2 years of energy industry or analytical experience.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, math, economics, computer science, chemistry, physics, finance, business, or related field.
• Interest in clean energy and power markets.
• Exposure to programming (SQL, Python, R, MATLAB, or similar).
• Experience working with large data sets a plus.
• Very motivated self-starter.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.

Physical Requirements

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.