Energy Analyst, Clean Energy

Meta•Chicago, IL

22h•$104,000 - $155,000

About The Position

As a member of Meta’s Global Energy team, the Energy Analyst contributes to the deployment of Meta’s global energy strategy. The role supports bringing online and managing a cost-competitive, clean and renewable energy-based supply portfolio that meets the company’s strategic objectives. The position owns the renewable energy data portfolio, including analysis and reporting on project and portfolio costs, generation, availability, and profitability. It develops and maintains energy cost and generation forecasts to support budgeting and planning, supplies financial information for reporting, and responds to ad-hoc inquiries from cross-functional partners. The role also builds scalable analytical tools and processes, validates monthly settlements and invoices with third-party vendors, works with utilities and suppliers to resolve payment issues, and coordinates reporting on renewable energy purchases, consumption, credit retirement, and progress toward renewable energy targets.

Requirements

Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining, a bachelor’s degree in business, finance, energy, or a relevant technical discipline.
At least 3 years of experience in energy analysis, energy finance, or renewable energy portfolio management.
Experience with renewable energy settlements, energy contract management, renewable energy tracking systems, and/or invoicing.
Experience analyzing and interpreting renewable energy cost and generation data, virtual PPAs, green tariffs, and wholesale energy market data.
Experience building data foundations and analytical tools.
Experience using Excel or Google Sheets and working with large data sets.
Experience building cross-functional relationships.
Experience using PowerPoint or Google Slides and presenting quantitative data.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with electric utilities and renewable energy suppliers.
Experience with Salesforce.
Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices, such as risk assessment, bias mitigation, and quality and accuracy reviews.
Experience creating and working with SQL and VBA.
Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and drive measurable impact, such as efficiency gains or quality improvements.
Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development, such as prompt/context engineering and agent orchestration, and staying current with emerging AI technologies.
Experience using AI for transformative analytics.
Experience building and managing models for forecasting and analyzing renewable energy costs and generation.

Responsibilities

Own the renewable energy data portfolio and track, analyze, and report on individual and portfolio-level project gross cost, net cost, generation, availability, and profitability.
Create and maintain forecasts of energy cost and generation from renewable energy projects using developer forecasts, project development schedules, historical data, and other inputs to support budget and planning efforts.
Work with Finance and Accounting and internal partners to provide renewable energy financial information for financial reporting.
Provide insights for ad-hoc, bespoke inquiries from cross-functional partners.
Build scalable tools and processes to improve analytical efficiency and support tooling and data initiatives for portfolio performance analytics.
Work with third-party vendors to validate and analyze monthly settlements and energy invoices for the renewable energy portfolio.
Work with utilities, renewable energy suppliers, and internal partners to ensure timely and accurate invoice payments and resolve issues.
Coordinate with cross-functional teams to report on Meta’s renewable energy purchases, energy consumption, renewable energy credit retirement, and progress toward renewable energy targets.