A little about Capital Power
Capital Power (TSX: CPX) is dedicated to Powering Change by Changing Power. This north star guides our ambitions, focus, and actions as we transform our energy system. We're a growth-oriented North American energy company headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta. Our team safely delivers, builds, and creates balanced energy solutions for customers across North America.
Our people are at the core of our journey to deliver reliable, affordable, and lower-carbon power solutions. We provide purpose-driven work in a safe and inclusive environment, and we live by our North Star. With us, your contributions matter – we want you to be empowered to innovate, collaborate, and ultimately drive results. We're here to partner with you so you can learn, grow, and forge a career that's meaningful to you. Join us in powering North America!
Your Opportunity
One Permanent Full Time Position.
As the Analyst, Supply & Trading – West, this role is highly diverse and integral to the success of our Supply & Trading (S&T) operations. It encompasses responsibilities such as optimizing AESO portfolio outages to maximize value, developing and maintaining quantitative models for S&T, conducting complex pricing analyses for trading opportunities, and delivering ad hoc analytics to support trading activities. The position requires strong analytical skills, a strategic mindset, and the ability to work across multiple functions to drive performance and value creation.
You will contribute to our team by:
Regular liaising with plant operations to understand the complex nuance of our fleet and specific units.
Analyzing market fundamentals in order to optimally plan asset outages.
Running and maintaining S&T’s proprietary analytical models to support decision making including scheduling plant outages.
Developing pricing models and tools for standard physical and financial, conventional, renewable, retail and wholesale energy products.
Pricing and structuring more sophisticated customized and tailored products and services.
Conducting the varied analytical, modeling, reporting and compliance requirements of the origination team, including customer energy consumption and tariff analysis, budget preparation, product development and pricing, corporate business and market reporting.
Working alongside commercial functions to help optimize portfolio value.
Supporting the development of Capital Power’s responses to commercial opportunities by developing, maintaining and disseminating market intelligence associated with customer needs and prospective solutions.
Ability to take complex outcomes and clearly and concisely communicate outcomes and recommendations.
What you will bring to the role:
Education:
Minimum a bachelor degree in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, statistics, or finance
Preference towards graduate degrees, CFA, FRM or other financial designation holders
Experience:
5+ years of building, maintaining and running quantitative models.
Experience with modeling gas and power commodity prices and outcomes.
Experience in pricing commodity products and asset / portfolio optimization
Technical Skills:
Proficient ability to gather, collate, and analyze large amounts of data using Python, R, and other languages/toolsets. Application of algorithmic methods / machine learning
An advanced understanding of finance, portfolio theory, risk management principles and statistics.
Advanced application skills related to MS Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, PowerBI).
Working Conditions:
In-office position with limited travel required
Location: Calgary
Additional Details:
In order to be considered for this role you must be legally eligible to work in Canada.
The successful candidate for this position will undergo an education verification, reference checks and criminal record check.
We believe that creating a culture that supports employee physical, mental, financial, and social wellbeing is critical to our success. That is why we provide flexible and affordable employee benefits, retirement savings, and paid time off programs. We also provide comprehensive onboarding, training, and programs supporting your career development.
Depending on the posting requirements relocation assistance may be available.
How To Apply and Next Steps
Capital Power only accepts resumes via online application at www.capitalpower.com/careers. If you choose to submit your resume by any other means, we cannot guarantee that your application will be considered for vacancies.
Applicants with disabilities who require a reasonable accommodation to complete their application can request accessible formats, communication support, or other accessibility assistance by contacting careers@capitalpower.com.
Capital Power is committed to providing a fair and transparent hiring process. We recognize and embrace the value of diversity and hire employees with the appropriate skills, experience and knowledge for each position.
Thank you for taking the time to apply and expressing interest in powering a sustainable future with Capital Power! We wish that we could personally respond to everyone who applies; however, it is our practice to contact only those individuals selected for interviews.