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The West Power Commercial Operations Desk is looking for a highly motivated individual to join the team and support commercial operations in the CAISO, the western US and Canada. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting a broad range of activities, including wholesale pricing; customer reporting; scheduling; market analysis; modelling; and research. This role in intended to provide the foundation for high performers to advance into a power trading career path.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Manage pre-scheduling, tie-outs and NERC e-tagging for WECC physical power transactions
• Assist with CAISO Congestion Revenue Right (CRR) allocation and auction processes
• Develop comprehensive models to analyze commodity markets, price new business opportunities and advise customers
• Identify opportunities for new business with wholesale counterparties including Community Choice Aggregations (CCAs), utilities as well as other wholesale energy companies
• Manage and validate short-term CCA forecasts and position reports
• Assist Regulatory and Compliance Teams as required to ensure a prompt and comprehensive response to regulatory developments as well as timely compliance to existing regulations
• Provide research as needed to identify possible strategic business opportunities

Working Conditions:

• Open office environment
• Evening and weekend work may be required based on business needs

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree preferably in Mathematics, Engineering, or related fields from an accredited college or university
• 0-3 years of related experience
• An understanding of physical and financial power markets
• Effective verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and adhere to deadlines while maintaining attention to detail
• Strong spreadsheet, programming, and presentation skills
• Must be a creative thinker with strong investigative and analytical skills
• Statistical proficiency
• Strong interpersonal skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficient coder of SQL, and an object-oriented programming language (Ruby, Python, VBA)

Advanced quantitative degree preferably in Mathematics, Engineering, or related fields from an accredited college or university

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Protected Veteran Status/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

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