C&I Pricing Analyst

Gas South•Gainesville, FL

About The Position

Are you an innovative and adaptable self-starter who enjoys finding solutions to open-ended problems? Do you enjoy innovatively structuring energy products to meet customer needs while challenging the competition? Are you a critical thinker who can balance an eye for detail with big-picture vision? Do you enjoy designing, testing, and implementing modeling and application solutions to meet growing business demands for efficiency and scale? Do you want to work for a growing energy company in a highly competitive market? Then the Commercial & Industrial (C&I) Pricing Analyst may be the job for you! As a C&I Pricing Analyst, you will create modeling for customer valuation, profitability analysis, risk assessment, and rate design in support of Gas South’s Commercial & Industrial business. You will engage with Sales, Trading, Risk, Middle Office, Finance, and Operations to ensure successful pricing, risk analysis, execution, and booking of deals. Becoming a Gas South Analyst offers exceptional growth opportunity with a four-level career path. As Analysts grow and gain experience, they progress through the four levels (I, II, Senior, Lead) and take on greater responsibility as both contributors and leaders. New hires will come in at the level their experience dictates. Are you a fit? A successful candidate for this role is proactive, curious, and a strong critical thinker. Existing knowledge or experience within the natural gas or broader energy industry is preferred. You have strong analysis and modeling capabilities and are motivated by business growth and customer service. You are able to work through a technical problem, and then effectively communicate your conclusions or recommendations to a non-technical audience.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree – Engineering, Economics, Statistics, Marketing or Business/Management-related preferred
Understanding of energy price structure and risks borne in different types of structures.
Ability to model incremental costs and risks associated with customer acquisition, renewal, and/or asset management opportunities.
Proficient in Microsoft Excel and some programming experience or understanding of programming logic (VBA, SQL, Python, etc.) is preferred.

Nice To Haves

Strong technical and quantitative skills including solid understanding of data analysis, model building, model validation. Advanced Data Analysis skills (Regressions, Monte Carlo Simulations, etc.) is preferred
Experience with Customer Relationship Management (CRM), BI tools, or cashflow modeling a plus.

Responsibilities

Develop, implement, and distribute models and model-derived costing for various rate structures used in pricing for customer acquisition and renewal decisions.
Maintain existing pricing models and continue to incorporate new improvements to keep up with continuous changes in the underlying costs and risks inherent in the business.
Analyze customer characteristics with regression and other techniques to identify shifts, which could affect pricing.
Create modeling to support profitability of individual customers and customer groups.
Design, implement and present customized quantitative analyses as appropriate to support other organizations (Finance, Sales, Marketing and Operations) as needed including customer commodity, credit, and operational risk management modeling and support for Retail segments.
Provide key decision support in estimating costs and setting pricing for customers and in forecasting revenues, costs, and consumption for the Retail business.
Participate in the design, execution, and management of the commercial pricing team’s modeling for pricing en masse, balancing model complexity with business needs to efficiently scale.