Senior Utility Analyst

Energy CX; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Uncapped commission

Competitive salary

Entrepreneurial culture

Growing team

Chicago presence

Job summary

Energy CX is seeking a Senior Utility Analyst in Chicago to elevate budgeting and forecasting accuracy by applying deep expertise in usage data, rate structures, and forecasting methodology.

You will sharpen analytical rigor, guide the team, and go beyond models to shape forecasting decisions across the group. Strong modeling skills are essential in a data-driven environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience analyzing utility usage, tariffs, and pricing.
• Proven forecast accuracy improvements with transparent methodologies.
• Advanced Excel and modeling skills with complex, high-stakes models.
• Independent thinker who challenges current processes.

Responsibilities

• Deeply analyze utility rate structures and pricing to identify forecast gaps.
• Audit data pipelines feeding forecasts and adjust inputs.
• Own budgeting and forecasting methodology, tightening assumptions and drivers.
• Diagnose past forecast misses and implement corrections.
• Act as go-to expert for forecasting edge cases across teams.
• Collaborate with ABEL and decision-engine teams to validate model outputs.
• Mentor junior analysts on forecasting rigor and rate-structure nuance.

Skills

Forecasting expertise

Analytical rigor

Communication of findings

Mentoring teammates

Tools

Excel

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Looker

Job description

Energy CX is redefining the energy brokerage industry as the fastest-growing player in the US. By bringing cutting-edge technology, advanced analytics, and innovative solutions, we are disrupting a space that has operated in the dark for too long.

Why Energy CX?

• Recession proof industry
• Uncapped commission with competitive salary
• Entrepreneurial and ambitious culture with a great team oriented environment
• Fastest growing energy broker in the country
• One of the fastest growing companies in Chicago

Title: Senior Utility Analyst

About this Job

As a Senior Utility Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in elevating the accuracy of our budgeting and forecasting work by applying deep expertise in usage data, rate structures, and forecasting methodology.

We're seeking a seasoned subject-matter expert who can sharpen our analytical rigor and raise the bar for how the broader team approaches forecasting. If you thrive in a data-driven setting and have a passion for getting the numbers right, this is the role for you. While strong modeling skills are essential, be prepared to go beyond running the models: you'll be a go-to resource whose judgment guides and develops the team.

Core Responsibilities

• Bring deep fluency in utility rate structures, tariffs, interval data, and commodity pricing to catch what less experienced analysts miss
• Audit and improve the data pipeline feeding the forecasts, including usage data, tariff changes, and market inputs
• Own and improve the methodology behind client energy budgets and forecasts. That means tightening the assumptions, variance drivers, and modeling approach, not just producing the numbers.
• Diagnose why past forecasts were off and build in corrections. This is a feedback-loop role, not a one-and-done reporting role
• Act as the go-to expert that other analysts and the deal team turn to for forecasting and budgeting edge cases
• Work with the ABEL and the decision-engine team to check model outputs against how utilities actually behave and find where the model's assumptions break down
• Mentor junior analysts on forecasting rigor and rate-structure nuance

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience analyzing utility usage, tariffs, and commodity pricing in a brokerage, trading, consulting, or utility environment
• A track record of improving forecast accuracy. You should be able to explain how you've tightened forecasts over time, not just that you've built them
• Advanced Excel and modeling skills, and comfort owning complex, high-stakes models
• Strong, well-supported opinions. You push back when something doesn't look right instead of deferring to the existing process

Strongly Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in deregulated energy markets specifically, not just utilities broadly
• A forecasting miss you can talk through openly, including what you learned from it
• SQL and BI tool fluency (Looker, Power BI, Tableau) so you can work directly with the underlying data instead of relying on pre-built reports
• Working knowledge of machine learning concepts and modeling techniques, with the ability to apply them to improve forecast accuracy
• Experience mining and manipulating large, complex datasets to surface trends and support data-driven decisions

Hiring Scam Alert: All official communication regarding job opportunities at EnergyCX will come from an @energycx.com email address. We will never ask for personal information, payment, or sensitive data through unofficial channels. If you receive any suspicious emails claiming to be from EnergyCX but using a different domain, please disregard them and report the incident to us.

As set forth in Energy CX's Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measure the effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categories is as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.