Analyst

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The Opportunity

We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with a passion for renewable energy, who can demonstrate initiative, excellent problem solving and analytical thinking skills, to join our team as a markets and investment analyst.

The role as an Analyst will help to inform EDF Renewables’ investment strategy through analysis of market fundamentals, financial valuation and simulation of storage (+ co-location) operation and revenue generation.

This role will specifically work with Battery Energy Storage System. Experience in Battery Storage is highly beneficial.

Pay, benefits and culture 

If you’re looking to join a company where you can work hard, have fun, and help to create a Net Zero future – then you’re in the right place!’

Our passion for embracing new ideas and being open-minded to change helps us continue to grow successfully.

We’re committed to helping all of our people thrive during their time with us, recognising and rewarding every person for their hard work and commitment. 

Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits and employee discounts to help you thrive across all aspects of your life. You can spend your flexible fund on the benefits that matter to you, whether that’s an electric vehicle, private healthcare, additional holiday or one or more of our other benefits.

We’ll offer you the flexibility, freedom and responsibility to make an impact in your role; whether that’s on-site, in the office or hybrid working from home.  

We’re committed to championing diversity representation across gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability and more. This applies to all our roles, underpinned by our Everyone’s Welcome inclusion programme.

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need. 

What you’ll be doing

You’ll contribute analysis and insight into M&A, partnerships, auction processes and Final Investment Decisions (FIDs) to support the ambitious growth of EDF Renewables UK & Ireland, covering offshore wind, onshore wind, solar, battery storage and hydrogen investments.

The role will provide the opportunity to become an expert in a rapidly growing field, and the mixture of analysis and communication will allow the successful candidate to build a well-rounded set of skills that will enable exciting career development opportunities.

What do you need to be great at this role?

Knowledge and experience in the energy sector is preferred, with a particular focus on the fundamental drivers of power markets and the role of storage within them. The successful candidate will be able to contribute to the increasing automation and sophistication of our models, whilst communication of results will also be key, so we will look for excellent presentation skills and demonstrated stakeholder management experience.

You’ll have experience in coding (this will be applied to automation, modelling and data processing in Python) in addition to;

• Understanding and ideally experience of financial modelling (discounted cashflow analysis)
• Knowledge of energy markets.
• Experience in structuring and manipulating data.
• Stakeholder management.
• Excellent communication and teamworking skills.
• Advanced Excel use.

Closing date for applications: 16th of September 2024 Location: Based from our Atria One Office in Edinburgh. We're proud to offer a Flexible First approach to work meaning you can work comfortably from home with our offices as your base location. 

Why EDF Renewables?

At EDF Renewables UK & Ireland we’re committed to tackling climate change. Our rapidly growing team of 500 talented people share an ambition to create a net zero future where clean, green, energy powers all our lives.

It’s a huge ambition and time is of the essence if we are to play our full part in meeting the UK and Ireland’s challenging net zero targets. With our unique mix of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, battery storage and green hydrogen we are the UK & Ireland’s most diverse generator of renewable energy.

To achieve our goal of generating a massive 10GW of renewable energy by 2035, we’re working with stakeholders and communities throughout the UK and Ireland to unlock the enormous potential of the low carbon energy sector.

If you’re passionate about tackling climate change to create the cleaner, greener future we all want, we would love you to come join us. 

Join us, and let’s do good together.