Associate Trading Analyst (Energy Trading)

Location: Denver, CO, 80205, United States

Salary: $84,900.00–$120,566.66 per year

Company

Electricity and natural gas energy company serving 3.4 million electricity customers and 1.9 million natural gas customers across eight Western and Midwestern states.

What you will do

• Design quantitative studies of wholesale electricity prices, system loads, fuel costs, portfolio positions, and market risks.
• Analyze transmission congestion, Financial Transmission Rights, Auction Revenue Rights, nodal pricing, and ISO/RTO settlements.
• Build and run modeling scenarios for unit commitment, dispatch, energy purchases and sales, constrained resources, and generation offers.
• Develop short-term load forecasts and evaluate plant, contract, fuel, and market conditions.
• Perform post-analysis and benchmarking to improve dispatch efficiency, sales costing, and purchasing and trading processes.
• Translate quantitative findings into recommendations for traders, risk management, regulatory teams, management, and operations personnel.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, engineering, applied sciences, or a related field.
• Strong programming, statistical, analytical, and quantitative problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of wholesale electricity markets, commodity trading, portfolio or risk management, or utility operations.
• Understanding of nodal electricity markets, LMP formation, transmission congestion, binding constraints, and ISO/RTO settlements.
• Experience with Python analytical libraries, SQL, data pipelines, dashboards, or comparable analytical technologies.
• Ability to communicate technical findings to traders, management, regulatory personnel, and other stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Mechanical engineering background or power plant operations experience.
• At least six months of experience with generation-cost modeling software such as PLEXOS, Aurora, ProSym, PROMOD, or Gentrader.
• Experience with FTRs, ARRs, congestion hedging, MISO, or other organized wholesale electricity markets.
• Experience with generation-cost, production-cost, or power-flow modeling applications.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability coverage.
• HSA, FSA, dependent care reimbursement, and transportation reimbursement programs.
• Annual incentive program, pension, 401(k), paid time off, holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off.
• Tuition reimbursement, fitness center reimbursement, employee assistance, transit programs, and employee recognition program.
• Commitment to cybersecurity, accessibility, equal employment opportunity, and workplace accommodations.