Portfolio Management Analyst

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Location: Hub based! Bristol (Preferred)

But you have the flexibility to work wherever suits you best

Team: EMO - Energy Markets & Optimisation

Salary banding: £36,000 - £60,000 - depending on experience 

Experience: 3+ years in a Energy Trading or Risk Management role

Working pattern: Full-Time

Reporting to: Portfolio Management Lead

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words: Analysis, Development, Expert

Top 3 qualities for this role: Diligence, attention to detail, commercial acumen

 

Where you’ll work:

At OVO, we understand that a one size fits all approach doesn’t work for everyone. That’s why we created the OVO Way of Flexibility.

All our roles are hub based (Bristol, Glasgow or London), providing a dedicated space for collaboration, connection and teamwork. You’ll also have the flexibility to work from home.

 

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all abilities, gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

 

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. 

 

This role in a nutshell:

As part of the Energy Markets and Optimisation (EMO) function, this role will report into the Portfolio Management Lead.  This is an exciting opportunity to develop a deep understanding of Energy Market Risks and the strategies to mitigate them.  The analysis carried out will be key in supporting the development of risk management strategies to mitigate complex energy and non-energy risks associated with domestic supply. 

 

Your key outcomes will be:

• Managing large data sets of costs and revenues to ensure the team has accurate information to understand the business' risk to a large set of complex exposures
• Understand changes to market rules and regulations and the effect that has on Ovo’s hedging strategies
• Work with the Energy Data Science team to understand the range of outcomes of Ovo’s costs and revenues
• Development and effective management of the Gross Margin at Risk (GMaR) metric
• Designing of hedge strategies that increase the certainty of achieving forecast gross margin
• Understand and manage Ovo’s exposures to weather using appropriate derivative instruments

 

You’ll be successful in this role at OVO if you…

• Are a numbers person, confident in dealing with large data sets and extracting key insight & results
• Can learn quickly in order to develop a detailed understanding of current models and processes, the energy market and our wholesale energy trading activities
• Are able to take the initiative in addressing complex challenges. 
• Highly analytical with strong data manipulation skills and advanced Excel knowledge.
• Experience with writing SQL queries
• Experience in data visualisation tools (eg Tableau)
• Experience with data analysis in a programming language (eg. Python or R)
• Demonstrable high attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to break down complex problems, often involving large amounts of data.
• A team player who thrives in a challenging environment.
• Flexibility