Research Senior Analyst, Global Energy Markets (EMEA Focus)

Research Senior Analyst, Global Energy Markets (EMEA Focus)

Aurora Energy Research

Oxford, United Kingdom

The Senior Analyst will be an experienced member of the team, focused on projects in Europe and the wider EMEA region, speaking to clients, and representing the company externally. The scope of this role will be on natural gas, oil, and coal markets, with a focus on Europe, in addition to broader analysis of global markets. The role involves keeping abreast of, and providing insightful client reports on, key developments across European commodities markets, including consideration of how energy commodities will be affected by decarbonisation policies and the emergence of low-carbon technologies.

The Global Energy Markets team produces Aurora’s central outlook and scenarios for the development of gas, oil, and coal markets, which underpin Aurora’s analysis of power markets. Although the role is based in our Subscription Analytics team, the successful applicants would also play a role in supporting commodities-focused projects undertaken in our Advisory team — which in the past has included transactions and strategic advisory.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to Aurora’s research in European, Middle Eastern, and African energy commodity markets and work closely with Aurora’s modelling and power teams to develop regular market forecasts and novel analysis;
• Research key short- and long-term market trends and conduct analysis of policy developments in the gas, coal, and oil markets, with a focus on EMEA;
• Develop timely and rigorous quantitative analyses to enhance clients’ decision making, e.g., in supporting financial transactions for energy assets;
• Work closely with colleagues in global offices;
• Communicate findings to clients through meetings, calls, workshops, and conferences;
• Contribute to Aurora’s product development, by identifying new opportunities for intellectually interesting and commercially relevant areas of analysis, helping to expand our capabilities, subscription base, and impact.

What we are looking for

Required attributes:

• Relevant Master’s degree or PhD;
• At least two years of experience working with European natural gas markets at an energy company, commodity price reporting agency, leading strategic or economic consultancy, energy trading house or brokerage, economic research institution, or financial services company;
• Demonstrated ability to collect, analyse, and interpret complex quantitative data and information;
• Demonstrated interest in energy markets and commodities, particularly natural gas, oil, or coal;
• Demonstrated success in project and process management in team-oriented environments, delivering output to a variety of key stakeholders;
• Demonstrated success in delivering time-critical projects;
• Self-starter, entrepreneurial mind-set, and desire to grow the business;
• Competence in data tools (e.g., SQL, PowerBI, advanced Excel);
• Excellent written communication;
• Native or professional-level competence in English.

Desirable attributes:

• Demonstrated success in client-facing positions;
• Demonstrated ability to communicate and collaborate with both technical and non-technical parties;
• Knowledge of key financial metrics and economic principles (NPV, IRR, DCF);
• Academic or practical experience forecasting macroeconomic indicators;
• Competence in advanced data analytics (e.g., R, Python, GAMS, Matlab).

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