CCUS Research Analyst

Verisk; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A global analytics firm is seeking a CCUS Analyst to join their Carbon Management division in Edinburgh. This role involves producing insights on carbon capture and leading research initiatives in the energy transition. The ideal candidate will possess strong analytical skills and experience in financial modeling related to energy projects, with the opportunity to significantly influence strategic decisions in a growing sector.

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in CCUS or related sectors.
• Knowledgeable in financial modelling of energy-related assets.
• Strong communication skills to engage with clients.

Responsibilities

• Produce reports on the impact of CCUS in the Energy Transition.
• Conduct primary research with stakeholders and analyze CCUS projects.
• Collaborate with internal teams to support content creation.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Education

Degree in a relevant field (e.g., Environmental Science, Engineering)

Tools

Financial modeling

Job description

Wood Mackenzie are the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision making.

Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector teams are located around the world and deliver a variety of projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies, and economic indicators such as market supply, demand, and price trends.

We have over 1,900 employees in 30 locations, serving customers in nearly 80 countries. Together, we inspire and innovate the markets we serve – providing invaluable intelligence to help our customers overcome the toughest challenges, and make strategic decisions that will, ultimately, accelerate the world’s transition to a more sustainable future.

Wood Mackenzie’s research groups provides integrated subscription, research and advisory services to inform and support our client’s commercial and strategic decisions in the complex and rapidly changing energy industry across all sectors of the economy.

Combining our deep knowledge of solar, wind, storage, and grid technologies, combined with our global power and fuels modeling and analytical capabilities, and emerging technologies like hydrogen and CCUS, Wood Mackenzie can provide data and insight spanning the entire energy value chain. We cover supply chain, technology costs, policy and market issues, fundamentals-based outlooks, scenario modelling, price forecasting, asset valuation, and commodity market landscapes.

Team Profile

This role will serve as part of Wood Mackenzie’s CCUS research team, in the Carbon Management division. This is an excellent opportunity to join a strong, global team and make a major contribution to the energy transition at a global scale.

The Carbon Management division is at the nexus of Wood Mackenzie’s Energy Transition research, drawing upon multiple commodity areas. The group’s work helps our clients understand market trends across the several of the critical technologies enabling the energy transition. Coverage spans emissions, carbon markets, CCUS, abatement technologies, and scenario modelling.

Carbon Management and the CCUS team within it are both growing quickly as we help to drive the pace and scale of the energy transition and to serve different customer segments with integrated analysis.

In the CCUS team we build cost and asset models, interpret policies, track market activity, assess new technologies and build deployment forecasts. We are also launching a newthe “Lens CCUS” analytics platform to help our customers make the best-informed decisions in this market.

Our clients are responsible for the success of their firms’ technology roadmaps, competitive positioning, product marketing, and go-to market strategies.

Key internal collaborations within Wood Mackenzie are with our expert groups on subsurface CO2 storage, carbon markets, fiscal systems, hydrogen and industries to which CCUS is a potential abatement technology (upstream, LNG, refining, chemicals, power, and metals).

Role Purpose

This role will be responsible for covering the CCUS market in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) North America region. It is also important to bring strong global context to regional discussions, and you will work closely with the global CCUS team members to develop our global views. There will be one or more categories of broad CCUS research, such as areas of policy, technology, or economics where you will be expected to spearhead Wood Mackenzie’s research efforts on a global scale.

You will update and develop Wood Mackenzie’s proprietary datasets on CCUS. And together with our Data and Product teams you will contribute new views, insights and analytics as the market grows.

You will be responsible for economic modelling of CCUS projects, feeding into our new Lens CCUS Valuations Service. This will involve understanding project costs, business models, revenue structures and fiscal terms. You will analyse and communicate qualitative and quantitative drivers for the strengths and weaknesses of each project.

You will become a go-to person within Wood Mackenzie to support internal stakeholders as they translate intelligence on the CCUS and carbon market to each of their business lines. You will integrate your analysis with the rest of the team deliverables, including insights on topics such as regional activity, technology development and policy evolution. You may also contribute to bespoke consulting projects on CCUS market activity.

Importantly, you will develop your own relationships with industry, financial, and government partners. This will be to establish a knowledge base to test assumptions on project and market specifics, as well as to represent Wood Mackenzie’s CCUS research in a high-quality way to customers.

Qualifications

Main Responsibilities

• Produce regular written reports and insights on the changing way CCUS and other Carbon Removal mechanisms impact the Energy Transition
• Own and develop cash-flow analyses and written content for individual CCUS projects (clusters, hubs, individual projects), with a focus on the North America EMEA region.
• Work with the Modelling Centre of ExcellenceFiscal Centre of Excellence to translate fiscal and subsidy terms relevant to each market where carbon capture, use and storage projects operate or are planned.
• Present findings in market reports, industry insight pieces and in person via conference calls, webinars and conferences.
• Build a strong relationship with industry stakeholders in the CCUS space across North AmericaEMEA.
• Conduct high-quality primary research with project developers, governments and investors on projects, costs, policy updates and market evolution.
• Strengthen the CCUS data apparatus through surveys, interviews, and secondary research. Refresh the analytical models with updated data on a regular basis.
• Provide high-quality client service to research subscribers through responding to inquiries, one-on-one conversations, and special events.
• Collaborate with SMEs and internal stakeholders across Wood Mackenzie to support the creation of our content.

Knowledge and Experience

• Demonstrable achievement and growth in past academic and/or professional endeavors
• Knowledgeable and experienced in financial modelling of energy-related assets
• 3+ years or distinguishing previous experience in carbon management, CCUS or CCUS-related sectors (e.g. oil and gas, power, chemicals, steel, hydrogen, cement),project development, project and energy economics, energy policy research, and energy transition technologies and initiatives
• Familiar with policy landscape as it impacts the energy transition
• Familiar with energy demand, technology adoption and technology cost modelling.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities. Interested in using both qualitative and quantitative methods to answer market questions.
• Self-driven. Capable of switching between the roles of an individual contributor and a collaborator.
• Strong communication skills. Comfortable interacting with clients and industry stakeholders.
• Capable of managing ambiguity; able to synthesize complexity into key themes and insights by being resourceful and persistent.
• An engaging nature, capable of connecting with co-workers, clients and industry stakeholders in a wide range of professional settings around the globe.
• Passionate, with a deep intellectual curiosity, about the energy transition. Specifically, the impact of carbon capture and removal capability amid a wider, global business and policy landscape.
• Issue identification and problem-solving
• Building analytical models, manipulating and illustrating data.
• Planning, implementation
• Determined and resilient
• Creativity
• Building and maintaining relationships
• Communication
• Personal impact

Additional Information

WoodMackenzie is an equal opportunities employer.

We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran’s status, age or disability.

https://www.woodmac.com/careers/jobs/

Unsolicited resumes sent to WoodMackenzie, including unsolicited resumes sent to a WoodMackenzie business mailing address, fax machine or email address, or directly to WoodMackenzie employees, will be considered WoodMackenzie property. WoodMackenzie will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of unsolicited resume.

Verisk is a leading data analytics provider serving customers in insurance, energy and specialized markets, and financial services. Our team of nearly 9,000 helps customers make crucial decisions every day about risk—with greater precision, efficiency, and discipline.

Notice

Talentify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Talentify provides reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants with disabilities, including disabled veterans. Request assistance at [e-mail] or 407-000-0000.

Federal law requires every new hire to complete Form I-9 and present proof of identity and U.S. work eligibility.

An Automated Employment Decision Tool (AEDT) will score your job-related skills and responses. Bias-audit & data-use details: www.talentify.io/bias-audit-report . NYC applicants may request an alternative process or accommodation at [e-mail] or 407-000-0000.