Power Trading Analytics Analyst

Wood Mackenzie Ltd; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Wood Mackenzie in Boston is seeking a Market Analyst to join the Power Trading Analytics team, focusing on North American power market fundamentals, price forecasting, asset valuation, and strategy. The role emphasizes delivering high-quality, model-based insights to support client decisions and asset optimization.

You will work with senior analysts to produce short-term outlooks, automate tasks, and communicate findings to traders, asset owners, and clients.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, finance, math, stats, or energy related discipline.
• 2+ years of business or professional work experience in a power or trading vertical.
• Ability to lead and train entry-level associates and analysts.
• Commitment to contributing to a welcoming and inclusive environment.

Responsibilities

• Participate in and lead the daily operational tasks with the Market Associate/Analyst group.
• Ensure high-quality forecasts and analytics are provided to customers from the entire team.
• Operate models and support tools daily that include spatial, data visualization, and power flow applications to identify and solve problems in the power industry-specific to an ISO market.
• Responsible for understanding and communicating current-day/next-day operational and financial risk to asset owners, traders, retailers, etc.
• Provide insights and risks associated with longer-term congestion patterns, transmission upgrades, and outages through quarterly seasonal outlooks.
• Ownership of initiatives related to efficiencies and products outside of routine daily operational tasks.
• Run regional support workbooks daily and continuously improve the level of granularity provided to the team and customer.
• Manipulate large datasets and determine correlations and relationships between potential market drivers, prices, and events.
• Improve current processes by automating critical tasks using macros (visual basic/Python).
• Present the team’s ISO desk, lead, managers, and other decision-makers with research projects/presentations, memos, or reports on market-relevant topics as requested and advise on the effects of various courses of action relevant to specific problems.

Skills

Python

Visual Basic

Education

Bachelor’s degree in economics, finance, math, stats, or energy related discipline

Tools

Macros

Job description

Wood Mackenzie in Boston is seeking a Market Analyst to join the Power Trading Analytics team, focusing on North American power market fundamentals, price forecasting, asset valuation, and strategy. The role emphasizes delivering high-quality, model-based insights to support client decisions and asset optimization.

You will work with senior analysts to produce short-term outlooks, automate tasks, and communicate findings to traders, asset owners, and clients.