Fundamentals Analyst

Overview

About us:

Founded in 1990, LS Power is a premier development, investment, and operating company focused on the North American power and energy infrastructure sector, with leading platforms across generation, transmission and energy transition solutions. Since inception, LS Power has developed or acquired over 50,000 MW of power generation, including utility-scale solar, wind, hydro, battery energy storage, and natural gas-fired facilities. Through LS Power Grid, the Firm has built and operates approximately 780 miles of high-voltage transmission with another 350+ miles and multiple grid infrastructure projects currently under construction or development. Across its efforts, LS Power actively invests in and scales businesses that are accelerating the energy transition, including electric vehicle charging, demand response, microgrids, renewable fuels and waste-to-energy platforms. Over the years, LS Power has raised $65 billion in debt and equity capital to support North American infrastructure.

Our Purpose, Mission, & Values:

Our Purpose is to solve complex energy problems that improve the world

Our Mission is to make lives better by developing a cleaner and more reliable energy ecosystem

Our Values are the willingness to participate in and help strengthen our culture of integrity, Innovation, Teamwork, and Taking Ownership

Our People create value and are our Most Valuable asset.  We take our values of Integrity, Innovation, Teamwork and Taking Ownership seriously and ask candidates to think about how they can help us further enhance our culture with their specific skillsets, capabilities and experiences.

Benefits

We provide our team the opportunity to share their unique perspectives, solve new challenges, and continue in their career growth. We are committed to supporting employees’ happiness, healthiness, and overall well-being by providing comprehensive benefits that include 100% employer paid premium healthcare, paid parental leave and more.

Compensation

The salary for this role is $120 - $160,000. This is the range that we in good faith anticipate relying on when setting wages for this position. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in (Location).  This salary range may also be modified in the future.

About the Role:

The role will be with Gen IV, an energy investment fund founded in 2015 within LS Power that focusses on expressing its views on the upstream, midstream, downstream and oilfield services sectors through positions in credit, equity and individual commodities.  This person will assist the portfolio managers by developing or enhancing fundamental models and market signals. The ideal candidate will have at least two years’ experience within the energy investing or energy analytics industry and an interest in working on an investment team that requires significant strategic thought and entrepreneurial opportunities. The individual position is expected to grow from pure modeling focus to eventually contribute trading ideas. Additionally, the role will also work with the broader group to support overall team investments.

Responsibilities

What you will do:

• Build, develop and enhance quantitative models that forecast fundamental supply and demand components of the U.S. Canadian and global natural gas and power markets
• Conduct research to support model validity and efficacy, have sense of ownership of models they develop
• Develop novel methods of analyzing data and find market insights
• Simplify and automate existing processes, interact with and assess vendor data
• Ability to work on multiple projects and effectively manage time and deliverables without continuous supervision
• Interest in the energy industry and willingness to take on increased responsibilities within the team
• Perform ad hoc analysis directed by SVP

Qualifications

We want you on our team because you…

• Bachelor's degree, engineering or technical field preferred (mathematics, physics, engineering). Course work in Economics and Finance is a plus.
  • GPA 3.75+
• Work experience within commodities industry, preferably in a trading environment
• Demonstrated capabilities of programming languages (Python, R)