Advisory (Senior) Analyst, Origination - PPAs, BESS and Energy Contracting

Advisory (Senior) Analyst, Origination - PPAs, BESS and Energy Contracting

Aurora Energy Research

Athens, Greece

Key Responsibilities

As an Analyst in the Origination team, you will:

• Develop timely and rigorous commercial analysis to support client decisions on offtake, procurement and route to market;
• Value contract structures including Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), Corporate PPAs (CPPAs), tolling, floor and hybrid agreements, assessing capture prices, shape and profile risk, imbalance exposure and revenue certainty;
• Assess how contract structures affect bankability and financing outcomes, including the revenue certainty, tenor and counterparty credit that lenders and investors require;
• Support live transaction processes, including tender preparation, bid benchmarking and the evaluation of offers received;
• Play an active role in all aspects of client engagement: helping identify issues, forming hypotheses, conducting analysis, synthesising conclusions into recommendations, and communicating findings to clients;
• Help run client mandates day to day, maintaining project plans and timelines, coordinating inputs across teams, tracking deliverables and keeping clients informed on progress;
• Work closely with our modelling and research teams, structuring commercial problems into quantifiable analyses and deriving insights from the model results;
• Contribute to Aurora’s origination toolkit and to product development, by identifying new opportunities and expanding our capabilities.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• A university degree in either:
  • A quantitative, economics, engineering or finance subject, coupled with a keen interest in energy markets and policy developments;
  • A social science, environmental studies or a related field, coupled with an interest in quantitative analysis.
• An ability to collect, analyse and interpret complex commercial and quantitative information, and to turn it into practical recommendations;
• Experience owning a workstream end to end, from planning and coordination through to delivery on deadline;
• Evidence of strong performance in team-oriented environments;
• An ability to communicate and collaborate with both technical and non-technical parties;
• An interest in how energy projects are contracted and financed, including the perspectives of developers, lenders, investors and corporate buyers;
• Strong interest in European power markets and energy contracting; previous professional or academic exposure to PPAs, BESS or power trading is beneficial;
• Proficiency in English is a requirement. Knowledge of Greek or another European language is a plus.