Market Analyst

5 days ago

Folsom, California, United States California ISO Full time
Job Description

Job Title: Market Monitor

Job Summary:

The California ISO is seeking a highly skilled Market Monitor to join our team. As a Market Monitor, you will be responsible for conducting applied economic analysis and reporting on overall market performance and efficiency, the impact of proposed revisions to market rules, and market participant behavior.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Monitor and analyze market performance, market participant behavior, and compliance with market rules.
  • Design and calculate indices for monitoring market performance and market participant behavior.
  • Assist in the design, development, and management of surveillance and monitoring systems used in identifying, analyzing, and investigating market performance, efficiency, participant behavior, and compliance with market rules.
  • Conduct economic analysis related to market design issues.
  • Investigate market performance, behavior, and design issues and create special analytical reports as needed.
  • Review and analyze variable, fixed, and opportunity costs of electric generation resources.
  • Review proposed tariff provisions and other market design elements with a focus on improving market design, enhancing market efficiency, and preventing opportunities for market gaming and abusive market behavior.
  • Investigate potential instances of market gaming, or non-compliance with the ISO tariff, regulatory contracts, and other market rules.
  • Prepare and analyze data queries, reports, charts, and slide presentations to support special studies, investigations, board meetings, and regulatory filings and proceedings.
  • Provide guidance and expertise to other staff within the department.
  • Maintain a highly secure and protected market investigation process.
  • Attend business meetings, and collaborate with colleagues to develop 'best practices', and to identify and resolve issues to help create a flexible and efficient organization.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree (BA, BS) or equivalent education, training, or experience in Economics, Operations Research, Business, or related technical field.
  • Master's (MS, MA, or MBA) or Ph.D. degree highly preferred.
  • Equivalent years of education and training, plus two (2) or more years related experience.
  • Experience in one or more of the following areas: applied economic analysis, statistical analysis, industrial organization, market performance monitoring, utility operations and planning, energy trading, regulatory or policy analysis.
  • Experience with data verification, large data sets, computer modeling, programming techniques, and analysis of electricity and fuel market performance is helpful.
  • Demonstrated skills directly related to or transferable to market monitoring.
  • Familiarity with the analysis of electric market operations and performance, and/or design and operation of California or other Western energy markets desirable.
  • Working knowledge of SAS and SQL queries and SQL database formats, Python, as well as other analytical computer skills (e.g. Excel).

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Motivated intellectually curious team player with a growth mindset.
  • Effective communicator of complex ideas and analysis verbally, in documented form (Word) and presentation form (Power Point).
  • Strong quantitative skills with a strong emphasis on statistical analysis.
  • Experience or familiarity in working with and analyzing large data sets.
  • Ability to work effectively in a team environment as facilitator and team member.
  • Must have excellent multi-tasking, critical thinking, decision-making, and interpersonal skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and analytical skills required.

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