Analista Financiero de Marketing y Comercio de Energía, Especialista Asociado

Become an Energy Marketing & Trading Financial Analyst, Associate Specialist at Southern California Edison (SCE) and shape our clean energy future. In this position, you would use quantitative tools to provide analytics support for projects and initiatives that help shape SCE's work on planning for long-term electricity supply and demand, reducing emissions, and adapting to climate change. The work will primarily focus on quantitative analyses that support grid planning for decarbonization, climate adaptation, portfolio emissions, and other energy market dynamics and inform key policy and corporate strategy decisions.

This role in the Analytics Group within the Resource & Environmental Planning & Strategy (REPS) organization, will directly influence corporate planning, resource procurement, energy policy, legal proceedings, and future investment strategies. Additionally, you'll:

• Utilize analytical models and grid planning simulation tools to develop resource portfolios under various future scenarios and forecast the impacts of those portfolios on system pricing, GHG emissions, and other system and market dimensions.
• Provide analytical support for SCE's strategic planning process and projects including performing economic, market sizing and cost-benefit analyses.
• Build data pipelines to intake large amounts of climate projection data and manipulate the data to generate custom climate projections for end use applications.
• Present to department and division management, section supervision, colleagues and other interested parties.

As an Energy Marketing & Trading Financial Analyst Associate Specialist, your work will help integrate clean energy, reduce carbon emissions, mitigate climate change risks, and create cleaner air for everyone. Are you ready to take on the challenge to help us build the future?

Responsibilities

• Prepares analytical support for projects and initiatives that help shape SCE's strategy.
• Follows horizon planning capabilities through scenario development in the face of uncertainty driven by exogenous market factors, like climate change and emerging technologies.
• Assists in deploying analytical models and grid planning simulation tools to support the development of resource portfolios under various future scenarios.
• Monitors regulator demands and helps in documenting communications with state agencies about California's energy and reliability needs.
• Assists in researching the cost-effectiveness and potential of new technologies for supply and demand-side energy resources.
• Identifies improvement areas to alternative analytical models and methods for a variety of applications, including evaluating energy policies, regulations, climate change impacts, and new business models.
• Participates in the analysis of market trends in the energy and ancillary services markets.
• Gathers contract requirements, reviews payments, manages disputes and makes recommendations to maximize benefits to customers.
• Contributes to statistical and econometric models to forecast electricity demand and energy commodity prices to support position management and hedging.
• A material job duty of all positions within the Company is ensuring the protection of all its physical, financial and cybersecurity assets, and properly accessing and managing private customer data, proprietary information, confidential medical records, and other types of highly sensitive information and data with the highest standards of conduct and integrity.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience in financial planning, modeling and/or forecasting.

Preferred Qualifications

• One or more years of experience in using analytical tools for applications such as financial planning, modeling, and/or forecasting.
• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Econometrics, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or other related quantitative field
• Experience developing and applying analytical tools using R and/or Python to code various types of large data
• Experience developing data pipelines with Python and/or SQL from back-end databases
• Demonstrated interest in energy/electric system analysis
• Experience with statistics and machine-learning models
• Experience with advanced Excel functions (i.e. Pivot Tables, V lookup, Macros and VBA)
• Experience using data visualization tools (i.e. ArcGIS, PowerBI or Tableau)
• Demonstrated knowledge of power markets, GHG policies and markets, and related regulatory requirements that govern SCE's participation in them

Additional Information

• This position's work mode is hybrid. The employee will report to an SCE facility for a set number of days with the option to work remotely on the remaining days. Unless otherwise noted, employees are required to reside in the state of California. Further details of this work mode will be discussed at the interview stage. The work mode can be changed based on business needs
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• Relocation does not apply to this position.
• Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.