Advisory Associate

Aurora Energy Research; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dynamic culture

Competitive salary

Aurora Academy

East Austin office

Mentoring sessions

Job summary

Aurora Energy Research in Austin is seeking an Associate for our Advisory team to help shape clients' decisions and accelerate the energy transition. You will lead workstreams, perform analysis, and synthesize findings into actionable recommendations for public and private sector clients.

Responsibilities include managing project workstreams, developing timely quantitative analyses, and collaborating with the modeling team to structure economic problems and derive insights.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years experience at a consultancy, energy company, financial services company, or other knowledge-focused firm or institution.
• Top university degree.
• Demonstrated success in taking responsibility for project and process management in team-oriented environments.
• Proven ability to interpret and derive insight from complex quantitative data and information.
• Ability to communicate clearly and cooperate effectively with both technically- and nontechnically-minded people.
• Self-starting, entrepreneurial mind-set, and desire to grow the business.

Responsibilities

• Leading advisory projects for our clients, across a diverse range of energy transition technology, business models and strategies, including planning out the work of the team and ensuring we maintain rigorous standards of analysis and clear communication of insights.
• Provide insights and recommendations to help shape clients’ strategic decision making.
• Develop timely and rigorous quantitative analyses to enhance clients’ decision making.
• Work closely with our modeling team, structuring economic problems into quantifiable analyses and deriving insights from the model results.
• Communicate findings to clients through meetings, calls, workshops, and conferences.
• Contribute to Aurora’s product development, by identifying new opportunities for intellectually interesting and commercially relevant areas of analysis, helping to expand our capabilities, subscription base, and impact

Skills

2-4 years experience

Project management

Data interpretation

Clear communication

Entrepreneurial mindset

Education

Top university degree

Tools

Python

R

Advanced Excel

Job description

Description

Aurora is seeking an Associate in our Advisory team in Austin. You will help shape client’s decision making to accelerate the energy transition. You will play an active role in all aspects of client engagement: helping identify issues, forming hypotheses, conducting analysis, and synthesizing conclusions into recommendations, while also managing workstreams and smaller projects and driving internal initiatives. You will develop data-driven strategic insights into the energy transition for both public and private sector clients.

Department: Advisory

Location: Austin, USA

Key Responsibilities

• Leading advisory projects for our clients, across a diverse range of energy transition technology, business models and strategies, including planning out the work of the team and ensuring we maintain rigorous standards of analysis and clear communication of insights
• Provide insights and recommendations to help shape clients’ strategic decision making
• Develop timely and rigorous quantitative analyses to enhance clients’ decision making
• Work closely with our modeling team, structuring economic problems into quantifiable analyses and deriving insights from the model results
• Communicate findings to clients through meetings, calls, workshops, and conferences
• Contribute to Aurora’s product development, by identifying new opportunities for intellectually interesting and commercially relevant areas of analysis, helping to expand our capabilities, subscription base, and impact

What we are looking for

Required attributes:

• 2-4 years of experience at a major consultancy, energy company, financial services company, or other knowledge-focused firm or institution
• Top university degree
• Demonstrated success in taking responsibility for project and process management in team-oriented environments
• Proven ability to interpret and derive insight from complex quantitative data and information
• Ability to communicate clearly and cooperate effectively with both technically- and nontechnically-minded people
• Self-starting, entrepreneurial mind‑set, and desire to grow the business

Desirable attributes:

• Previous experience of working on energy-related projects or policy-particularly in a Canada or US context
• Leadership, management, or mentoring experience demonstrated by previous roles of professional responsibility or extracurricular activities
• Demonstrated success in working with clients
• Competence in advanced data analytics (e.g., Python, R, Matlab, Advanced Excel)
• Strong academic record, such as Master’s degree or PhD in a relevant discipline

What we offer

• A fun, informal, collaborative and international work culture
• A competitive salary and benefits package
• Access to regular coaching and mentoring sessions and the opportunity to learn from experienced professionals
• A brand-new office space in the vibrant and culturally rich East Austin area
• Access to the Aurora Academy, our training program offering a range of opportunities to develop your skills

The Company is committed to the principle that no employee or job applicant shall receive unfavorable treatment on grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership and pregnancy and maternity.

The successful candidate would start as soon as possible. We will review applications as they are received. Salary will be competitive with experience.