Senior Consultant - Japanese Power Market Expert

Our Power Market Advisory practice are looking for an experienced Japanese Power Market Expert to join the team. This role will be based in our Singapore office with regular travel to Japan.

You will be working at the forefront of the energy sector alongside market specialists with deep industry knowledge where you will be able to deploy and then broaden your skill set and expertise. 

We are proud to work with the foremost energy companies, policymakers, regulators, investors, developers, and operating globally across the energy supply chain.  Led by a Senior Management Team respected as Thought Leaders within the industry, we use deep analytical insight to help our clients to define their strategies, shape their asset portfolios, and sharpen their assessment of market opportunities.

What you will be doing

Working closely with our team of experts in Singapore and Sydney, your key tasks will include:

• Provide insight to our clients on the evolution of energy markets by combining your market expertise with market leading analytical tools. Developing scenario outlooks that enable investors, developers, lenders and policymakers to make informed decisions on capital deployment, contract structures and market design.


• Apply fundamentals-based research towards developing and maintaining Baringa’s Japan power market models, so as to produce robust modelling of electricity price projections and fuel mix forecasts.


• Providing bespoke market advisory to clients, which can include transaction advisory (buy-side and sell-side), PPA structuring, market opportunity assessment, or evaluation of impending policy or rule changes.


• Delivering regulatory advisory engagements, including advising regulators, IPPs or utilities on market structures, energy transition policies, etc.

Your skills and experience

We’re looking for talented, enthusiastic energy experts with a track record of taking ownership and delivering results in a challenging, client-facing environment. Specific experience areas sought include:

• Energy experience of at least 4 years, with an in-depth understanding of the Japanese power market dynamics.


• Quantitative skills/capability (ideally, power market modelling experience)


• Experience in asset valuation, commercial due diligence and transaction advisory, and familiarity with PPA structures, clauses, and the impact on bankability.


• Experience in providing analysis to investors, developers, lenders and off-takers, based on detailed quantitative analysis and providing advice grounded in facts.


• Familiarity across the regulatory structures in the Japan power market.


• Excellent written and verbal communication in English and Japanese.

What a career at Baringa will give you 

Putting People First.

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include: 

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service. 

• Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave. 

• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us. 

• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice. 

• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success. 

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people. 

An award-winning workplace

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this. 

Using business as a force for good. 

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve. 

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.