Kanin Energy is searching for a Commercial Analyst to support growth in the company’s clean energy and decarbonization platform. Reporting to the Director of Origination, the ideal candidate will be a highly motivated early career professional that has quantitative experience, intellectual curiosity and an understanding of what it means to create value as a junior team member with the organization. 

Key Responsibilities:

Market Research:

• Researching and analyzing the intersection of heavy industry trends and decarbonization opportunities
• Researching industry trends to help determine areas of opportunity and further develop our thesis on the market and its competitive landscape
• Creatively approaching industry data to identify new opportunities for both product development and client engagement
• Updating and analyzing wholesale power prices, carbon prices, and other commodities
• Communicating the impact/relevance of customer, government and other market changes/announcements to the Kanin team
• Researching power market structures/policies in regulated and de-regulated markets
• Researching utility service territories and tariffs
• Using S&P Capital IQ, Industrial Info Resources and other 3^rd party databases and/or public data to produce insights on prospective and active customer facilities and taking initiative with this data to identify prospect sites and target areas where Kanin would add value
• General research into overall market size across various sectors and regional industrial hubs

Sales Assistance:

• Coordinating discovery calls and setting up in-person meetings
• Updating Hubspot/CRM database and delivering regular reports to leadership
• Building custom Hubspot outputs to help the team better understand and visualize sales data
• Leveraging industry contacts and developing an appropriate network as you participate in the market as a Kanin team member

Commercial Analysis:

• Assembling and updating project level financial models in Excel
• Building sensitivity/data tables, waterfall charts, tornado charts and other quantitative outputs using Excel
• Assembling PowerPoint presentations that include quantitative outputs for client meetings
• Building case studies and quantifying financial and environmental project impacts/benefits for customers (cost savings, emissions reductions, etc.)

Qualifications:

• University degree in relevant field
• 2-5 years of professional experience with experience working in power, energy markets, project finance, project development, corporate finance, enterprise sales, or commercial development
• Entrepreneurial and self-starter attitude 
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills
• First-principles mindset 
• Strong written communication skills in English
• Highly collaborative with other team members