Market Analyst
About the Company
A privately owned energy infrastructure business active in the development, ownership, and operation of utility-scale renewable generation and battery energy storage assets. The organisation participates directly in wholesale power markets and contract-based offtake structures, with a strong emphasis on revenue optimisation, market risk management, and data-driven commercial decision‑making across its asset portfolio.
Key Responsibilities
Market & Revenue Modelling
- Develop, maintain, and own internal commercial and revenue models for a portfolio of solar and battery storage assets.
- Convert third-party market forecasts into asset-level and portfolio-level revenue projections.
- Model a range of commercial exposures, including merchant revenue, long-term offtake agreements, optimisation contracts, and hybrid structures.
- Run sensitivities on key assumptions such as power prices, capture rates, volatility, dispatch behaviour, degradation, and operational constraints.
- Ensure modelling outputs are transparent, robust, and suitable for senior management, lenders, and external advisers.
Offtake Strategy & Commercial Analysis
- Analyse and compare route-to-market options for renewable and storage assets across different market conditions.
- Evaluate the trade-offs between contracted and merchant exposure on a risk‑adjusted basis.
- Support the structuring and assessment of power purchase agreements, tolling and optimisation arrangements.
- Provide quantitative input into commercial negotiations with offtakers, aggregators, and trading counterparties.
Investment & Financing Support
- Produce revenue forecasts, downside cases, and sensitivities suitable for project finance and refinancing processes.
- Support investment committee decisions through scenario analysis and valuation inputs.
- Contribute to due diligence processes by ensuring consistency between internal assumptions and external market benchmarks.
Market Insight & Risk Assessment
- Interpret external market forecasts and scenarios, assessing their implications for asset performance and portfolio strategy.
- Evaluate revenue risk, merchant exposure, and key drivers of downside outcomes.
- Monitor actual versus forecast performance to improve assumptions and modelling accuracy over time.
- Support the development of hedging and risk mitigation strategies for renewable and storage assets.
Capability Development
- Continuously improve internal modelling frameworks, tools, and data processes.
- Support the development of best‑practice commercial analytics within the organisation.
Experience & Background
- Strong experience analysing electricity markets, with a clear understanding of pricing dynamics and revenue streams for renewable generation and/or battery energy storage.
- Professional background within an asset owner, utility, energy consultancy, trading house, or similar commercial energy environment.
- Proven ability to build and manage detailed commercial or revenue models for infrastructure assets.
- Experience working with external market forecasts and revenue scenarios.
- Advanced spreadsheet modelling skills; additional data or coding capability is beneficial.
- Familiarity with offtake structures such as PPAs, merchant exposure, and optimisation agreements.
- Experience supporting investment decisions, acquisitions, or project finance processes is advantageous.
- Able to translate complex market analysis into clear, decision‑ready insights for senior stakeholders.
- Typically 5+ years’ experience in an analytical role within the energy, infrastructure, or related sectors.
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