Quantitative Finance Analyst

Florida Power & Light; Juno Beach (FL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

NextEra Energy Marketing, LLC seeks an experienced valuation professional to lead the development and maintenance of financial and commodity-focused models for pricing, trading, and risk management of wholesale power derivatives. The role covers load following, deterministic and block energy products, with exposure to capacity, renewable energy credits, and ancillary services.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of experience; a Bachelor's in Accounting/Finance and a Master's

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor's degree.
• 2+ years of experience.
• Preferred: Bachelor's in Accounting/Finance and a Master's degree.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain financial, statistical, and commodity-focused valuation models and processes.
• Valuate wholesale power derivatives and related energy products for pricing, trading, and risk management decisions.
• Forecast energy, volatility, capacity, and ancillary costs; analyze forwards, options, and market conditions.
• Train and mentor new team members and contribute to process improvement.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Bachelor's - Accounting / Finance

Job description

Requisition ID: 94157

NextEra Energy Marketing is one of the nation’s leading electricity and natural gas marketers, and a key player in the energy markets in the United States and Canada. As a part of NextEra Energy Resources, we specialize in innovative energy strategies that maximize market value for our customers and stakeholders. Our team is skilled in market analysis, trading, risk management and delivering tailored customer solutions across North America. If you are a strategic thinker eager to make a significant impact in the fast-paced energy industry, join our team today.

Position Specific Description

Lead the development, implementation, and maintenance of financial, statistical, and commodity-focused models, templates, programs, and processes for the Valuation team. Relies on knowledge of algebra, statistics, probability, present value, portfolio theory, risk and return, discounted cash flows, comparable analysis, energy markets, logic, binomial tree modeling, and calculus. Leverages knowledge of coding, information systems, total quality management, and project management to effectively and efficiently deliver a system of valuation.

Deliver sound financial valuation of wholesale power derivatives, including load following, deterministic, and block energy products, mostly bundled with capacity, renewable energy credits, ancillary services, and other products to serve residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers. Executes valuation process for transactions ranging from approximately 1MW to 1000MW with 3 to 36 month terms that yield revenues up to $700MM. Values transactions by evaluating power futures or fundamental commodity estimates to create forecasts based on historical data analysis, multiple regression, number theory, logic, Monte Carlo simulations, scenario analysis, and proprietary models.

Executes regional forecasting assignments for energy, volatility, capacity, renewable energy credits and ancillary services. Researches laws, regulations, tariffs, and market procedures in a variety of markets to create models and forecast applicable costs. May complete ad hoc analysis of forwards, futures, options, interest rates, market conditions, exotic structures, weather products, and other financial or commercial assignments required to achieve group objectives.

Relentlessly pursues perfection, trains new team members, and creates a culture of continuous improvement upon the cornerstone of integrity and compliance.

Job Overview

Employees in this role develop models, price energy derivatives, design and perform quantitative studies and analyses of spot/forward prices and volatilities for making pricing, trading, and risk management decisions. This position assists in the development of core algorithms and models to support trading, origination, and asset optimization decisions.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Develops and improves upon mathematical models and translates algorithms into code
• Works with origination, risk management and trading to interpret valuations provided by models and responds to intra-day trading requests to price and evaluate structured transactions
• Assists development of energy price forecast, forward curve, and volatility models
• Designs and constructs risk management tools used in evaluating company's risk profile and exposure levels
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Experience: 2+ years

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's - Accounting / Finance
• Master's Degree

NextEra Energy offers a wide range of benefits to support our employees and their eligible family members.

Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Finance, Accounting & Business Analytics
Organization: NextEra Energy Marketing, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

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