Origination Senior Associate - PPAs & BESS (Hybrid)

Aurora Energy Research Limited; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Parental Support

Salary-Exchange Pension

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Local Oxford Discounts

Cycle-to-work Scheme

Flu Jabs

Job summary

Aurora Energy Research Limited in Oxford seeks a Senior Advisory Associate in Origination for PPAs and BESS to support clients in shaping route-to-market strategies and negotiating offtake agreements.

This client-facing role emphasizes strong commercial judgement, rigorous analysis, and leadership of workstreams, with opportunities to influence major investment decisions across Europe.

Qualifications

• At least 4 years' experience in the electricity sector.
• Strong understanding of European power markets and the drivers affecting renewables and storage.
• Experience assessing offtake structures, revenue streams and merchant exposure.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills to interpret market data.
• Excellent client-facing communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Proven ability to manage workstreams or project teams.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Support clients in evaluating route-to-market and offtake strategies for assets.
• Collaborate with Head of Origination to identify, develop, and convert client opportunities.
• Assist PPA, FPA, tolling, floor and hybrid-contract processes from tender to negotiation.
• Assess market revenues, risk allocation, balance, collateral, and bankability implications.
• Lead workstreams and project teams to deliver rigorous analysis and clear recommendations.
• Prepare client-facing materials, proposals, pitch decks, and transaction deliverables.
• Contribute to origination toolkit development with playbooks, templates and benchmarks.
• Collaborate with advisory, research and software teams to bring market intelligence into mandates.

Skills

4+ years electricity sector experience

European power markets understanding

Offtake structures & revenue analysis

Quantitative & analytical skills

Excellent client-facing communication

Project/workstream leadership

Fluent English (written & spoken)

Job description

Aurora Energy Research Limited in Oxford seeks a Senior Advisory Associate in Origination for PPAs and BESS to support clients in shaping route-to-market strategies and negotiating offtake agreements.

This client-facing role emphasizes strong commercial judgement, rigorous analysis, and leadership of workstreams, with opportunities to influence major investment decisions across Europe.