Battery Asset Manager

SaltHill Group; United States; Remote; USD 65,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company is seeking a BESS Asset Manager to maximize revenue in day-ahead and real-time markets for battery energy storage systems. This fully remote position involves market analysis, optimizing bidding decisions, and developing strategies alongside quantitative developers to enhance asset performance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 1+ years of experience in power trading or asset trading.
• Strong understanding of electricity market design.
• BESS experience preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maximize the value of BESS assets in power markets.
• Communicate with asset owners regarding trading risks and opportunities.
• Override algorithm recommendations and make trading decisions.

Skills

Market analysis

Communication

Excel proficiency

Python basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or related field

Job description

Direct message the job poster from SaltHill Group

An early-stage EMA company that provides third-party dispatch and optimization trading services for battery energy storage system (BESS) assets is searching for a BESS Asset Manager (Battery Asset Trader). The Asset Manager will maximize risk-adjusted revenue for BESS assets in day-ahead and real-time markets. The company’s extensive experience in physical and financial power trading, combined with bespoke algorithms, drives optimal bidding decisions.

• Schedule, manage, and maximize the value of the BESS assets in the wholesale power markets.
• Communicate daily with asset owners to discuss market conditions, trading risks, and opportunities for revenue optimization.
• Analyze key market metrics including short-term market prices, supply & demand, and transmission constraints in CaISO and ERCOT.
• Understand the price formation of all potential revenue streams and tariff rules, and apply this knowledge to optimize battery storage assets.
• Optimize the asset using the available algorithms and other market data.
• Override algorithm recommendations when deemed necessary and make trading decisions for the asset (at times).
• Work closely with algorithmic/quantitative developers to incorporate and test key assumptions (market design, regulatory rules and compliance attributes, generation bidding behaviors, and risk limits/controls) into the algorithmic dispatch software.
• Monitor all relevant federal, ISO, and state regulatory issues in CaISO and ERCOT.
• Analyze key financial performance indicators (KPIs) of the project and report to key stakeholders and asset owners.
• Interact with internal accounting and risk groups to set up BESS asset operations and systems (ETRM).

The position is entirely remote (WFH). The position requires on-call /off-hour availability.

Educational and professional requirements include a bachelor’s degree in Finance or a related field; minimum 1+ years of prior experience in short-term power market analytics, power scheduling, real-time power trading, day-ahead power trading, cash power trading, and/or asset trading of thermal or renewable generation; market experience in any ISO/power market (experience in CAISO and/or ERCOT is a plus); strong understanding of electricity market design; high proficiency in Excel; basic skills in Python); and excellent communication skills. BESS experience is desired but not required.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Analyst and Strategy/Planning

• Industries

  Electric Power Generation, Services for Renewable Energy, and Utilities

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