Power Trading Analytics Analyst

Genscape, Inc.; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Wood Mackenzie’s Power Trading Analytics (PTA) team seeks a full-time Market Analyst to focus on North American power market fundamentals, price forecasting, asset valuation, and strategy.

You will drive short-term outlooks, support customers with actionable analytics, and mentor junior analysts while expanding tools and models in Python/Visual Basic to improve forecasting and decision support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, finance, math, statistics, or an energy-related discipline.
• At least 2 years of business or professional work experience.
• Ability to lead and train entry-level associates and analysts.

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 specific to an ISO market.
• Understand and communicate current-day / next-day operational and financial risk to asset owners, traders, retailers, etc. transacting in the markets daily, to assist them in making asset optimization decisions.
• Provide insights and risks associated with longer-term congestion patterns, transmission upgrades, and outages through quarterly seasonal outlooks.
• Own 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 research projects, memos, or reports on market-relevant topics to the ISO desk, leadership, managers, and other decision-makers, and advise on the effects of various courses of action

Skills

Analytics

Leadership

Presentation skills

Python

Visual Basic

Education

Bachelor’s degree in economics/finance/math/statistics/energy-related discipline

Tools

Python

Visual Basic

Job description

Wood Mackenzie’s Power Trading Analytics (PTA) team seeks a full-time Market Analyst to focus on North American power market fundamentals, price forecasting, asset valuation, and strategy.

You will drive short-term outlooks, support customers with actionable analytics, and mentor junior analysts while expanding tools and models in Python/Visual Basic to improve forecasting and decision support.