About the Role
The successful candidate will support acquisition and divestiture efforts, focusing on asset market and trading activities, hedging, and trading opportunities. This role requires a strong understanding of US power markets, trading products, analytical and programming capabilities, and structuring expertise.
Responsibilities
- Perform market analysis to determine short and long term trading opportunities in commodity markets (Power, FTRs, emissions, RECs, natural gas, oil, coal, natural gas basis, power basis).
- Directly oversee third parties leading commercial strategies for generating facilities (bidding, fuel procurement, outage coordination, etc.).
- Utilize industry fundamental and technical analysis to research market dynamics and assess trade and hedge positions.
- Monitor market, industry, product, and pricing trends.
- Assist with structuring and negotiating documentation for trades.
- Provide asset valuation support for company acquisition and development activities.
- Assist acquisition efforts in assessing and underwriting revenue streams for target power generation facilities.
- Participate with the acquisition and development team to evaluate strategic hedging alternatives.
- Develop power generation hedging strategies across market regions to maximize profitability and minimize margin volatility.
- Focus hedging on gross margin value streams such as power, ancillaries, and capacity.
- Formulate risk management and trading strategies.
- Ensure compliance with strategic objectives and existing risk controls.
- Apply statistical and econometric analysis to raw Power and Gas data sets to form robust conclusions with predictive value.
Requirements
- Hold a Bachelor’s Degree.
- Have a minimum of three years of trading, structuring, and/or analytical support experience within the power industry.
- Have analytic, modeling, and fundamental research skills including demonstrated capability utilizing programming languages (writing, reading and editing code).
- Possess working knowledge of various trade capture and programming systems.
- Have excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Able to work on a number of simultaneous projects with minimal supervision and exemplary follow-through.
Skills
- Market analysis
- Commodity trading
- Hedging
- Trading products
- Analytical skills
- Programming
- Structuring expertise
- Fundamental analysis
- Technical analysis
- Risk management
- Statistical analysis
- Econometric analysis
Location
- United States
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum of three years of trading, structuring, and/or analytical support experience within the power industry
Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degree
Salary/Compensations
- $100,000 - $125,000
Benefits
- 100% employer paid premium healthcare
- Paid parental leave
About the Company
- Founded in 1990, LS Power is a premier development, investment, and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector.
- Leading platforms across generation, transmission, and energy expansion solutions.
- Has developed or acquired 50,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities.
- LS Power Grid has built 780+ miles of high-voltage transmission systems with another 375+ miles currently in construction or development.
- Actively invests in and scales businesses meeting growing energy expansion needs, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels, and waste-to-energy platforms.
- Has raised more than $76 billion in debt and equity capital to support North American infrastructure.
- Our Purpose is to solve complex energy problems that improve the world.
- Our Mission is to make lives better by developing a cleaner and more reliable energy ecosystem.
- Our Values are the willingness to participate in and help strengthen our culture of integrity, Innovation, Teamwork, and Taking Ownership.
- Our People create value and are our Most Valuable asset.
