Senior Energy Market Analyst

Company Description

Veolia in North America is the top-ranked environmental company in the United States for three consecutive years, and the country’s largest private water operator and technology provider as well as hazardous waste and pollution treatment leader. It offers a full spectrum of water, waste, and energy management services, including water and wastewater treatment, commercial and hazardous waste collection and disposal, energy consulting and resource recovery. Veolia helps commercial, industrial, healthcare, higher education and municipality customers throughout North America. Headquartered in Boston, Veolia has more than 10,000 employees working at more than 350 locations across North America.

Job Description

Position Purpose: 

Provide energy market advisory services to clients with a focus on: a) energy fundamentals that will impact future pricing; b) supporting transactions to buy / sell physical energy or Renewable Energy Certificates; c) understanding and communicating impacts of state & federal regulatory affairs that will impact client energy costs; d) providing tactical advice on physical energy flows for natural gas and power (e.g. pipeline nominations, transmission congestion credits, etc.); e) negotiation and recommendations for power purchase agreements.

Primary Duties/Responsibilities: 

• Provide energy market direction and advice for North American clients including advice for structuring of energy products, timing and structure for physical energy hedges, purchase of green-e or state RPS compliant RECs, and other related energy supply transaction requirements.
• Development of relationships of decision-makers within existing client's organization.
• Strong understanding of the regional structure for power pricing and costs within different RTOs in North America.
• Strong understanding for pipeline gas nominations, pipeline tariffs and regional differences for daily or monthly balancing of LDCs.
• Keep clients updated on gas basis movement and impacts on pricing for client's city gate gas and/or power pricing.
• Defining ideal energy product specifications for customers and obtaining pricing from relevant qualified suppliers as part of facilitating energy market supply transactions between clients and energy suppliers.
• Provide recommendations to clients on market movement and trends - both with forward and spot power and gas energy markets across different energy markets within North America.
• Facilitating decisions with clients regarding the optimal energy product to be procured - including decisions of buying cash/spot or fixed positions, contracting term, and other details defined within an energy supply contract.
• Providing annual budget support for client accounts to include both firm energy positions, regulatory based costs for utility delivery, and unhedged energy positions.
• Provide clients with insights regarding the impacts of market movements using SourceOne's proprietary Cash Flow at Risk analytical models.
• Provide clarity on costs and changes that can be seen with respect to regulated utility delivery costs and tariffs.
• Being curious and enjoying working in a client centric organization.

Work Environment:

• Office environment with some occasional travel to client sites.

Qualifications

Education/Experience/Background: 

• BS/BA required in Business, Math, Accounting, Engineering, or relatable field, MS or MBA preferred.
• 8+ years of energy, utility, and/or engineering experience is required.
• Experience working with large datasets.
• Modeling experience.
• Financial or economic knowledge/experience a plus.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: 

• Significant understanding of energy markets for natural gas, power, and related regulatory affairs.
• Ability to synthesize complex energy market issues for messaging to clients.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Comfortable speaking in front of groups.
• A “client-first” mentality.

Additional Information

Pay Range: $115000 to $125000 per year.

Benefits: Veolia’s comprehensive benefits package includes paid time off policies, as well as health, dental, vision, life insurance, savings accounts, tuition reimbursement, paid volunteering and more. In addition, employees are also entitled to participate in an employer sponsored 401(k) plan, to save for retirement. Pay and benefits for employees represented by a union are outlined in their collective bargaining agreement.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer! All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.