Principal Analyst

**The Opportunity**:
The Analytics team is a centre of excellence within our business and develops market insights and quantitative models to optimise dispatchable assets, forecast customer consumptions, risk manage positions, assess long term prices, value hedging product and shape strategy.

**Responsibilities**:
Reporting into the General Manager Analytics and Chief Data Officer, you will:

- Engage with the Spot Trading, Forward Trading, Portfolio and Commercial teams to develop tools to provide market analysis and insights for Australian Gas and Electricity physical and contract markets
- Review external reports from market bodies and consultants and provide insightful summaries to internal stakeholders.
- Manage engagements with external consultants providing market modelling for various projects
- Work together with Manager Analytics on complex, ill-defined tasks with mínimal assistance from Manager (i.e. gather requirements, come up with design, implement and test)
- Drive the analytical requirements for large projects e.g. tenders for products/new developments, with mínimal assistance

**About you**:
To be successful in this role, you will bring forward your strong programming, technical and statistical skills, as well as solid understanding of the energy markets, particularly the NEM and East Coast gas market experience.

You will be an excellent analytical thinker and problem solver and can work collaboratively with others to achieve shared goals.

**Next Steps**:
All applicants must have unlimited rights to work in Australia.

**About ENGIE Australia & New Zealand**:
ENGIE Australia & New Zealand, a joint venture with Mitsui & Co Ltd, is accelerating the transition to a carbon-neutral economy by providing innovative, sustainable energy solutions to households, businesses, communities and cities.

Our mission is to accelerate and support the transition towards a carbon-neutral economy, through reduced energy consumption and more environmentally-friendly solutions.

We have 1,100MW of low-carbon generation capacity and more than 2,000MW of renewable energy under development. Our retail business, Simply Energy, has more than 700,000 customer accounts around Australia.

We’re also delivering sustainability solutions to cities, precincts and universities through our ENGIE Net Zero Energy Solutions team.

ENGIE’s trading arm, Global Energy Management (GEM) provides long-energy supply agreements, energy trading, risk management and asset management services to business customers across the ENGIE ANZ portfolio.

Our Business Units

Thermal & Supply
- Simply Energy is one of Australia’s fastest growing energy retailers, with more than 750,000 electricity and gas customer accounts in Victoria, South Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia, The Australian Capital Territory and Queensland.
- 1,000MW of low-carbon generation capacity located in South Australia
- The Hazelwood Rehabilitation Project is a dedicated business stream leading the safe, stable and sustainable rehabilitation of the former Hazelwood Power Station and Mine, which ceased operation in 2017

Renewables
- Development, operation and maintenance of large-scale assets - predominantly in wind, solar and industrial-scale battery storage - as well as integrating hydrogen as an alternative energy source.

Energy Solutions
- ENGIE Net Zero Energy Solutions builds long-term partnerships that deliver net zero outcomes for communities.
- By integrating infrastructure, technology and services, we design, build and operate environmentally-friendly solutions, such as Green Mobility and energy storage, that support and accelerate the transition to a carbon-neutral economy.

Global Energy Management & Sales (GEMS)
- GEMS has 20 years’ presence in energy markets worldwide and offers services including risk management solutions, market access, asset management and optimisation, gas off-take, investment services, physical supply and logistics management, economic research, market analysis and M&A facilitation for energy producers.
- GEMS tailors solutions, such as PPAs, to the specific needs of corporate clients, with a strong focus on decarbonation and decentralisation, matching our clients’ growing needs to lower their carbon footprint and source greener energy with those of renewable asset owners.