Senior Consultant, US Power Markets Advisor

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New York, NY

Our Power Market Advisory team gives our clients an unparalleled combination of energy market expertise and commercial insight. We are proud to work with the foremost policymakers, regulators, investors, developers, lenders, and energy companies operating globally across the energy supply chain. Led by a Senior Management Team respected as Thought Leaders within the industry, we help our clients shape, define and implement change in energy markets.

You will be part of our Power Market Advisory team based in New York, and have responsibility for developing our power market outlooks, and supporting our strategy and transaction advisory projects in the North American power sector.  You will be working side-by-side with our team of market modelers, economists, and energy experts for clients including project developers, investors, and other advisory professionals.
The role is ideal for candidates who want to see the impact of their market analysis working at the intersection of power system infrastructure, energy markets and capital markets.  We are looking for people that love getting into both detailed analysis, and delivering high-impact insights to clients and senior stakeholders.  You’ll help shape the analytical approach for projects, lead discrete workstreams, and stay closely involved in client deliverables throughout the project lifecycle including:

• →Working with project leads to define the problem statement, select fit-for-purpose analytical methods, and help translate client needs into clear analytical workplans.
• →Owning and coordinating end-to-end delivery of defined project workstreams and managing day-to-day priorities for you and junior staff.
• →Synthesizing analysis into client-ready outputs—clear narratives, slides, and written materials—and present conclusions and implications to clients and senior leadership.

Our Senior Consultant position requires 3 to 5 years of experience in a consulting or industry role, the key attributes we're looking for include:

• Track record of work experience in wholesale power markets, infrastructure project analysis, policy, regulation and market design, focused on North American power markets

• Analytical skills applied to wholesale electricity market fundamentals, with hands-on experience of production cost modeling in PLEXOS or other software (e.g. PROMOD, AURORA, SaaS tools)

• Experience of handling and processing large amounts of data using (e.g.) Python

• Excellent communication and presentation skills and a track record of effective team working with people from different disciplines with different backgrounds

• Demonstrated ability to lead investigative analyses, performing QA/QC on data and model outputs, and growing into a go-to technical resource across power market topics and tools

• Exposure to appraising infrastructure projects using basic discounted cashflow analysis

• Experience in commercial and contracting structures, with an understanding of the routes to market for power generation assets and designing business models in energy markets

• Case studies of how you have applied AI in your day-to-day work to improve efficiency, quality, or other business objectives

• Experience with energy scenario development, capacity expansion analysis, including translating assumptions into model runs and decision-ready insights

• Hands-on experience creating tools or automation to streamline data pipelines and modeling workflows, with a strong emphasis on reproducibility and quality control

• Track record of producing thought leadership, and supporting business development initiatives in a commercially-oriented environment.

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