Overview:

A boutique energy consultancy is seeking a commercial market modeller who builds and runs NEM models hands on. Your work will shape investment, contracting and policy decisions for generators, developers and investors.

Suits a modeller who wants to front clients and turn results into commercial advice. You will join a small, highly technical team trusted by governments, utilities and investors nationally.

Responsibilities:
Build, run and maintain NEM market models forecasting prices, dispatch, revenues and asset value
Model generation, storage and transmission scenarios under evolving policy and regulatory settings
Develop and challenge key assumptions including demand, fuel costs, current entrant costs and bidding behaviour
Frame client questions into explicit modelling scopes and identify the commercial decision each analysis supports
Translate modelling outputs into commercial advice on offtake, contracting, valuation and investment
Prepare reports and present slide packs to clients, investors and senior stakeholders
Act as day to day technical point of contact, managing scope, timelines and quality




Review analysis prepared by junior staff and contribute to proposals and new business
Improve modelling tools, datasets and methodologies as the market and regulation evolve

Required Experience:
4+ years building and running NEM market models; candidates without hands on modelling experience will not be considered
Hands on with PLEXOS or comparable platforms, owning inputs, simulations and output validation
Background in a consultancy, gentailer or developer modelling team
Modelling that directly supported PPAs, hedging, asset valuation, investment cases or transactions
Robust grasp of NEM dispatch, pricing, contract markets and generation and storage economics
Confident applying SRMC, LRMC and supply and demand fundamentals to market outcomes
Python, SQL or similar used day to day for data handling and model automation
Track record presenting results and defending assumptions to clients and senior stakeholders

Qualifications:
Degree in Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics or another highly quantitative discipline
Postgraduate study in economics, energy or a quantitative field regarded

📌 Senior Consultant Energy Markets Sydney
🏢 ConnectYou
📍 Sydney