Energy Data Specialist

Ranked as one of Ireland’s best workplaces, by  Great Place to Work for 5 years , we offer ambitious candidates a fast-paced and challenging work environment, with the opportunity to grow your career. With over 440 employees and growing, PrepayPower is the market leader for Pay as You Go Electricity, Gas, and Broadband in Ireland. 

We are growing strongly and expanding into other market areas in Ireland and are expanding our pricing, hedging, and trading capabilities to accommodate this and future growth.

About the Role:

This role is based in the Forward Trading Team within PrepayPower’s finance department. We are a growing dynamic team of experienced energy market professionals who are responsible for buying and hedging PrepayPower’s wholesale gas and electricity supplies for our customers in Ireland, across a range of time horizons. The role specifically sits on the Demand side of the team which is responsible for forecasting our customer’s electricity and gas demand on a daily, weekly, and longer-term basis as well as analysing customer’s consumption data. We further support the wider business with customer insights and wholesale regulatory analysis.

We are an ambitious team and company and are seeking talented people to join us to help us continue to develop best-in-class energy hedging and trading tools, processes, data, and analytical capabilities.

The successful candidate will work with the wider forward trading team under the supervision of the demand forecasting manager and head of trading and will be primarily responsible for organising and maintaining the structure of demand data in our database, writing database queries and reports, analysing customer consumption data, and building tools to track key demand metrics. We offer ambitious candidates a fast-paced and challenging work environment with the opportunity to grow your career, build your skills, and work with an entrepreneurial team who are redefining the sector. Remote options and flexible working arrangements can be facilitated. The successful candidate will receive full training primarily on the job and can expect to be assigned a mentor within the team. We offer career development plans to help support employees as they grow within the team.

Desired Industry Experience: 

Knowledge of data analysis methods and proficiency in SQL and other programming languages such as Python is essential; the ideal candidate must have experience in creating fast and efficient database queries and reports in SQL. Experience in the Energy sector such as demand forecasting, Grid or Market modelling would be an advantage. The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator who can clearly explain complex information to key stakeholders and will also have experience guiding junior team members.

Main Responsibilities:

• Manage large-scale data projects from start to finish and report results to demand forecasting manager, e.g. agree technical requirements and deliverables for the project with the manager, map out the timeline, delegate work to junior team members, guide the project to completion, and be responsible for the results being delivered to the manager within the timeline.
• Assist the demand forecasting manager in identifying, building, and maintaining required data structures which will help enable efficiencies through automation of work.
• Write SQL stored procedures to run on a daily, weekly, or monthly basis which keep track of customer usage insights, and or energy market metrics, and build reports to communicate this information to the rest of the team.
• Be responsible for demand data integrity and be able to immediately identify missing data.
• Identify ways in which existing tools can be automated or optimised.
• Build new Excel tools, dashboards, and Power BI reports as required by the forward trading team.
• Assist the manager with short-term and long-term demand forecasting.
• Be part of the trading rota which involves buying electricity and gas from the Day-Ahead markets.
• Guide junior analysts through group projects.
• The role will require a limited amount of out-of-hours support.

Candidate Skills and Experience

• Minimum: Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Science, Computer Science, Physics, Sciences, or other Quantitative field.
  
• Masters or PhD highly desirable
• 4+ years of professional or academic experience in the Energy sector, data engineering, or other quantitative field.
• Strong data handling and programming skills are essential, particularly in SQL; additional experience in database management, python, and Excel would be preferred.
• The successful candidate will be an excellent communicator who can break down complex information and explain it to senior stakeholders.
• Excellent problem-solving / creativity skills with an ability to make sense of large amounts of data, from both the top-down and bottom-up.
• Knowledge of Wholesale electricity markets and an understanding of the ISEM would be an advantage.
• Should continually challenge own and others' work.
• Strong attention to detail and the candidate should be able to deliver a high quality of information to a varied audience.
• Ability to communicate in a structured, clear, and concise manner especially with management.
• The candidate should be able to demonstrate an ability to influence and gain buy-in from peers and management.
• Ability to follow, map and improve processes.
• Strong team worker with ability to work on own as well under direction from management.
• Ability to adapt to varying goals and changes in priority .
• Ability to work with and mentor junior members of the team.

Career Incentives & Benefits

• Competitive salary & bonus structure
• Pension Contribution Scheme
• PrepayPower Health Insurance Group Scheme & EAP with Laya Healthcare
• Great career progression opportunities in a growing company with strong market growth
• Fast-paced and friendly team environment
• Continual training and development
• Annual leave, increasing with service.
• PrepayPower Staff Tariff
• Modern offices with excellent facilities in Sandyford and the flexibility to work remotely
• Established CSR, Wellness, and Social Committees, and great social events.
• Refer a Friend Scheme
• Tax Saver Travel Tickets & Bike to Work Scheme

Prepay Power is the market leader for Pay-As-You-Go electricity and gas in Ireland. We disrupted the energy market in 2011 with one purpose in mind: ‘ To give people total control and complete transparency over their electricity costs.’Over 170,000 customers have already switched to Prepay Power (and we’re still growing!). In a market dominated by semi-states and subsidiaries to large energy multinationals, we are Irish-owned and independent.

Our service empowers customers to take control of their energy costs. Rather than the traditional market model of short-term discounts with significant terms attached, we help customers achieve long-term savings on the electricity, gas, and broadband that they use, which counts on every bill. Our approach is different and customer-driven. We pride ourselves on providing customers with an excellent level of service in an operationally efficient manner.

PrepayPower is an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe and treat all our employees, customers, and other stakeholders with dignity and respect.