Rotation Analyst

Calpine•San Diego, CA

20h•$70,304 - $99,000

About The Position

The Rotation Analyst Program is a 21-month program designed to provide staff with a variety of business/financial/operations analysis assignments, resulting in broad, hands-on exposure to the company’s analytic support areas and building analytics capabilities across product, service, and operational areas. Incumbents provide analytical support by rotating through various departments within Calpine’s retail business at three-month intervals. After successful completion of the program, the employee will be assessed and placed in an appropriate business unit.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Math, Business, Finance, Engineering degree preferred
Basic understanding of Electricity and Natural Gas fundamentals preferred
Effective communication skills both written and oral
Proficient computer skills with an emphasis on Excel, Word, Outlook, SharePoint, and other internal systems

Responsibilities

Developing professional knowledge of the retail power business
Developing use and/or application of basic principles, theories, and concepts
Shadow members of each group while also assisting them in fundamental tasks of the respective group
Makes decisions regarding own work within defined parameters
Regularly contributes useful ideas for own work area
Works on problems of limited scope
Follows standard practices and procedures
General instructions on routine work, detailed instructions on new assignments
May coordinate efforts of others
Be able to communicate results and findings to the relevant stakeholders within the company
Monitor daily usage receipt for assigned region and take appropriate steps to process
Meet deadlines and daily goals for WACOE price validation and generation for current pricing
Review contractual agreements to confirm accuracy of WACOE price calculations and approve prices
Meet deadlines and daily goals for invoice validation and generation for current billing
Utilize strong excel skills to analyze large amounts of data quickly
Update and maintain obligation models for each ISO
Maintain and update Load Profiles/Loss factors
Understand retail charges associated with each ISO market
Created initial and Trued-Up (ILOD and TLOD) Settlement Curves
Calculate Reserve Amounts, process wholesale, and ISO invoices
Liaise with Accounting (Accrual, reserves, etc.)
Understand Retail and wholesale workflow(s) and deal flow differences
Acquire working knowledge of how solutions retail deals are captured
Champion and NAP process as well
Capture CES Allegro Wholesale transactions
Understand internal systems such as Allegro and lodestar
Understand and assist in running DPR processes on daily basis
Reconcile data between RDS and DPR
Collect data for market risk analysis purpose
Validate market curve prices and communicate with desk to any discrepancies
Help Risk Analyst on any daily work requirements and ad hoc reporting
Review accuracy of formulas used in the Swing Pricing model
Maintain and update models using VBA and other programming language
Assist business groups in verifying consistency and accuracy of LF parameters
Develop a thorough understanding of LMP theory, and LMP simulation software (Dayzer)
Maintain accurate mapping of RT/DA contingency constraints in Congestion Model
Construct Load Forecast Models utilizing Metrix IDR
Reconcile Wholesale and Retail Portfolio Positions on a weekly basis
Schedule Day-Ahead Positions with the various independent Systems Operators
Conduct MAPE analysis for the scheduled load on a monthly basis
Calculate and report any Intra-Month P/L on accrual process
Monitor changes in ISO protocols and track various ISO charges
Become proficient in functional product knowledge (i.e., NES product suite, pricing components and settlement capability) and be able to articulate NES product characteristics to Sales
Provide basic ad-hoc analysis and reporting as needed (e.g., look-back analysis)
Work with various back office groups to meet customers goals