FP&A Analyst, Asset Management

Do you want to help create a cleaner power supply? Are you looking to launch your career in the growing renewable energy industry? Are you quantitatively driven and able to program in multiple languages? Do you have the ability to visualize data for senior leaders? 

If you answered yes to all of these questions, then read on to learn more about the Asset Management team at Scout Clean Energy. 

What does our renewable energy Asset Management team do? 

Excellence in asset management enables us to deliver on our commitments to our customers, partners, and investors. This service-oriented team combines on-the-ground expertise with analytical insights to inform data-driven decisions about all aspects of operating renewable energy facilities. 

Asset management spans a wide range of activities that are all directed toward the same goal: maximizing the profitability of our operating renewable energy generation plants. Key functions within the team include the following: 

• The Power and Energy Markets team cultivates an understanding of how energy markets work and how we translate it into revenue and profit through day-ahead scheduling, energy price formation and congestion analysis. 
• Asset Managers and Analysts are responsible for the plants’ financial performance, contractual obligations and regulatory compliance. They apply data driven decision making to ensure investment criteria are met. 
• The Engineering and Technical Services team combines big data with engineering expertise to ensure optimal up-time availability of our operating projects, maximizing the production of the facilities and protecting the physical integrity of the assets. 
• Real-Time Operations – Together, our on-site Facility Operations staff and the Remote Operations Center teams ensure safe, compliant, and effective operations of our operating renewable energy facilities. 

Our Asset Management team is growing substantially this year, as we are bringing a new facility online, expanding our portfolio to 5 operating wind farms. You will report to a Senior Asset Manager, you will interface frequently with all other groups within the Asset Management team, and you will collaborate closely with the corporate Accounting team. 

What will the FP&A Analyst do? 

FP&A Analysts are critical to making renewable energy a profitable – and therefore viable – source of energy for our country. You will join a team of other specialized analysts in our Boulder, Colorado, office who mine our extensive databases for insights to improve our wind facilities’ operating efficiency. The Asset Management Financial Analyst will focus on the financial aspects of our operations – revenue from predictable as well as market-based sources, operating expenditures, and capital expenditures. Your scope will include creating budgets and forecasts, measuring the performance against them, and improving our forecasting methods in the future. 

As Scout’s FP&A Analyst, you will make a lasting impact on Scout’s operations. You will support the development of processes, procedures, and reports that improve our team’s efficiency and profitability. You will maintain and improve the infrastructure (i.e., programming / coding) that drives efficiency and accuracy in reporting. You will create a set of proven practices and will set a high bar that helps every future Financial Analyst succeed. 

No two weeks will look the same, but here are a few examples of what you may encounter during an average week at Scout: 

• Update and Manage SQL database containing each project’s commercial and operational data. 
• Use your programming skills to extract data from multiple databases and automate the integration of that data in a reporting platform where you design and update reports. 
• Review and interpret contractual terms in key documents to design and conduct analysis that ensures compliance with the contract. 
• Create, improve, and deliver weekly / monthly reports about the portfolio’s financial performance. 
• Forecast the portfolio’s expected financial performance based on existing data, team input, and other resources that you assemble to quantify and model key operational and commercial drivers. 
• Use data visualization and other strategies to tailor reports and forecasts for key audiences, including Asset Management, senior managers, and our investors. 
• Leverage the experience and data of the Asset Management and Accounting teams to explain financial variances to budget. 
• Drive process development and refinement that promotes the integrity and effectiveness of the evolving reporting process. 
• Contribute to special projects and provide ad hoc data analysis upon request 

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