Principal Analyst - North American Power Service

  • Full-time
  • Verisk Business: Wood Mackenzie

Company Description

Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables

Wood Mackenzie Power and Renewables provides integrated subscription, research and advisory services to inform and support our client’s commercial and strategic decisions in the complex and rapidly changing electric power industry.

Combining our deep knowledge of solar, wind, storage, and grid technologies, with our global power and fuels modeling and analytical capabilities, Wood Mackenzie can provide data and insight spanning supply chain, technology costs, policy and market issues, fundamentals-based outlooks, price forecasting, asset valuation, and commodity market issues.

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Verisk Analytics has an amazing story to tell. In 2017, Forbes magazine named Verisk to its World’s Most Innovative Companies list for the third consecutive year and to its America’s Best Mid-Size Employers list. We also earned the Great Place to Work® Certification for the second consecutive year in recognition of our outstanding workplace culture.

Verisk is a leading data analytics provider serving customers in insurance, natural resources, and financial services. We’ve been delivering data, analytics, and decision support services to our customers for more than 45 years, helping them protect people, property, and financial assets. At Verisk, you’ll be part of an organization that’s committed to serving the long-term interests of our stakeholders, including the communities where we operate.

At Verisk, you can build an exciting career with meaningful work; create a positive and lasting impact on the business; and find the support, coaching, and training you need to advance your career. Our culture of innovation means your ideas on how to improve our business will be heard. As key contributors to our success, our team members enjoy working in a business-casual, collaborative environment that offers state-of-the-art resources, advanced technologies, and an excellent benefits package.

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability.

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Job Description

Team Profile

A Senior Analyst on our North American Power Service team will join a group of highly respected market experts and contribute to the delivery of industry-leading short and long-term power outlooks based on analysis of the dynamics impacting the North America power and renewables sector.  This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing team and make a major contribution to energy transition. Wood Mackenzie directly serves clients who are responsible for the success of their firms’ technology roadmap, competitive positioning, product marketing, and go-to market strategies.

Role Purpose

The Senior Analyst will help lead the development and operation of models, databases and reports for our growing North America Power Service. These responsibilities will include collecting market information/intelligence, analyzing data to generate market insights, building analytical models to create market forecasts. The analyst will also be the main point of contact between Wood Mackenzie and industry stakeholders and clients in the coverage area.

Main Responsibilities

  • Contribute to market analysis on Wood Mackenzie’s Long Term and Short Term Power Market Outlooks.  The successful candidate will take ownership of a specific ISO, becoming the regional market expert.   
  • Own the development and improvement of Wood Mackenzie’s proprietary analytical models that underpin the market coverage. 
  • Develop and maintain forecast models and data sets across verticals within the Energy Transition Practice.  Expertise in capacity market modeling is preferred.
  • Provide high-quality client service to research subscribers through responding to inquiries, one-on-one conversations, and special events.
  • Collaborate with peers across Wood Mackenzie to support research reports, conferences, marketing services and editorial coverage.
  • Author insight pieces for clients and the broader industry.
  • Present Wood Mackenzie’s research at industry events around the globe.

Qualifications

Knowledge and Experience

  • Knowledge of the structure of wholesale power markets and its operation, especially the rules governing capacity markets, RECs, and CONE/Cost of New Entry is necessary to be successful in this role.
  • Minimum 5 years of industry experience in the power sector
  • Required (key) programming & software skills include: SQL Server (high level), Excel VBA (mid level), GAMS (low-mid level).  
  • Understanding of mathematical programming & optimization concepts (i.e., reading and modifying an optimization program representing a capacity auction clearing mechanism).
  • Experience producing wholesale power market datasets, forecasts, and analysis for commercial purposes.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills. Strong analytical capabilities. Interested in using both qualitative and quantitative methods to answer market questions.
  • Self-driven. Capable of switching between the roles of an individual contributor and a collaborator.
  • Superb communication skills. Comfortable interacting with clients and industry stakeholders
  • An engaging nature, capable of connecting with co-workers, clients and industry stakeholders in a wide range of professional settings
  • A deep intellectual curiosity about the effect of a wider business landscape
  • Quantitative background and degree (e.g., economics, finance, engineering)
  • Superior writing skills

Additional Information

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability.

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