What are the responsibilities and job description for the Portfolio Optimization Analyst position at Alpha Generation?
Company Information:
Alpha Generation manages and operates power generation facilities that are well positioned to provide reliable, secure, safe, and sustainable power to meet increasing demand for electricity. Our diverse portfolio of assets is owned by ArcLight Capital Partners, a leading middle-market, value-added infrastructure investment firm that owns assets across the power, renewables, strategic gas, battery storage, and transformative infrastructure sectors. ArcLight has invested over $27 billion across 125 transactions.
ArcLight has assembled a best-in-class leadership team at Alpha Generation to manage over 13,000 megawatts of power infrastructure across four RTO markets (PJM, NYISO, ISONE, and CAISO). This highly experienced senior management team has a proven track record of strategic, operational, and commercial success and is focused on value creation while managing risk.
Alpha Generation will oversee one of the largest domestic, independent power portfolios, with nearly $2 billion in annual revenue.
Culture, Ethics, & Accountability:
Alpha Generation embraces an entrepreneurial environment with a focus on accountability, agility, and integrity. Safety is our top priority. At Alpha Generation, we are each responsible for ensuring a safe workplace. We act with integrity in every decision and every action. Our commitment is to always act in a manner that is ethical, compliant, and safe for our people, our communities and the environment. We celebrate diverse backgrounds and perspectives, and we lift each other up in the face of challenges. As a company, Alpha Generation pursues every opportunity for improvement, and we celebrate our successes together. We care about and respect our people, the communities where we live and work, our investors, and elected officials and regulators. We conduct our business in a manner that acknowledges varied perspectives, priorities and purposes.
Position Overview:
The Portfolio Optimization Analyst will directly support and partner with the Senior VP, Hedging and Portfolio Optimization to develop and implement data-driven strategies to translate market information into actionable business intelligence to more efficiently optimize the overall portfolio value of the Alpha Generation fleet of assets. The ideal candidate will have strong programming and analytical skills, proficiency in data science techniques and a desire to grow into a trading role. This role is viewed as a natural and prior step in the career arc of a Cash Trader at AlphaGen.
Role and Key Responsibilities:
- Portfolio Optimization: Develop and maintain optimization and forecasting models to maximize portfolio value while managing risk, using techniques such as polynomial regression, stochastic modeling, and machine learning.
- Data Analysis and Modeling: Analyze large datasets related to energy market data (e.g., energy prices, supply/demand fundamentals, transmission, etc.) to identify trends, patterns, and optimization opportunities.
- Automation: Develop scripts and tools to automate data collection, processing, and analysis workflows.
- Reporting: Create dashboards, visualizations, and reports to communicate findings and recommendations to stakeholders.
- Data Management: Collect, systematize, and store large technical datasets from varying sources to assist in transforming market intelligence into actionable insights that support optimization strategies.
- Trading Support: Provides timely analysis and recommendations to support trading activities including cash and term hedging, portfolio optimization, and risk management.
- Continuous Improvement: Identifies and implement process improvements, automation opportunities, and best practices to enhance the optimization of analysis and trading activities.
- Collaboration: Work closely with trading, origination and risk control to align data-driven insights with business objectives.
Professional and Educational Requirements:
- High levels of proficiency with Python, SQL, Snowflake Power BI, Spotfire, and Excel.
- 1-3 years of experience as an energy analyst would be preferred.
- Strong experience with data management and market analysis of large data sets.
- Prior experience creating management reports and dashboards for senior management.
- Strong experience with data management and market analysis, and manipulation is a must.
- Power industry background is a bonus but not required.
- Ability to collaborate, thinking analytically while communicating complex issues to nontechnical audiences.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills are required.
- Operates well in a fast-paced environment, with a desire to expand professional knowledge and grow into a trading, origination or similar commercial role.
- Undergraduate degree or higher (graduate degree preferred) in mathematics, statistics, engineering, computer science, or a related field.
AlphaGen is an equal opportunity employer.
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 laws.