Commercial Analyst (Data Centres and Industrials)

NextGenEnergyJobs; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NextGenEnergyJobs seeks a numerate commercial professional to own project models for opportunities in generation, BESS, and flexible load, including capex/opex, IRR, and downside cases. Develop standard assumptions to support a growing pipeline.

You will price offers by converting load profiles into tariff/PPAs and other structures, and quantify how risk is allocated. Analyze network charges, storage value, and market services while creating investor-ready materials.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in a numerate commercial role in infra or renewables.
• Financial modelling from first principles (DCF, IRR, scenarios).
• Advanced knowledge of GB/European power markets and network costs.
• Advanced Excel and Python.
• Able to take a messy problem to a clear recommendation.
• Quantitative degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the project model for each opportunity - generation, BESS, flexible load, network cost; capex, opex, revenue stack, IRR, downside cases.
• Price the offer by translating load profiles into tariff, PPA, tolling or availability-based structures.
• Value the flex by modeling storage and flexible load across wholesale and market services.
• Develop the business case with internal/external presentations for proposals to final investment decisions.
• Track the portfolio, monitor market and regulatory changes, support term sheets and diligence.

Skills

Numerate experience

Financial modelling

Advanced Excel

Python

Problem solving

Education

Quantitative degree or equivalent

Tools

Excel

Python

Job description

Responsibilities

• Own the project model for each opportunity - generation, BESS, flexible load, network cost; capex, opex, revenue stack, IRR, downside cases. Build project-specific models while developing toolings and standard assumptions to support our growing pipeline
• Price the offer. Turn a customer's load profile and reliability requirement into a deliverable price and structure - tariff, PPA, tolling, availability-based - and show which one allocates risk sensibly for both sides.
• Value the flex. Model storage and flexible load across wholesale, Balancing Mechanism, ancillary services and Capacity Market. Quantify network charges (TNUoS, DUoS, BSUoS), curtailment and connection options.
• Develop the business case. Build internal and external presentations to support from indicative customer proposals to project final investment decisions.
• Track the portfolio and read the market. Monitor live projects against approved cases - spend, milestones, connection dates - and identify early and quantify regulatory change (connections reform, REMA, network charging). Support term sheets and diligence from indicative to signed.

Requirements

• 3–5 years in a numerate commercial role - infrastructure or renewables development, project finance, banking, energy trading or origination, strategy or energy consultancy.
• Financial modelling from first principles: DCF, IRR, scenarios and sensitivities. You can build a model someone else can follow and eventually develop it as a standard tool for other team members to use.
• Advanced knowledge of GB/European power markets, and how network and connection costs land on a project.
• Advanced Excel and Python
• Able to take a messy, incomplete problem to a clear recommendation
• Quantitative degree - economics, engineering, finance, maths, physics - or equivalent experience.