Energy Analyst

Founded in 2002, Ascend is an employee owned software service company based in Boulder, Colorado. Ascend’s management team has over 60 years of direct energy experience. Our focus remains the analytic and data infrastructure to support decision analysis from the next hour to the next thirty years. Ascend has utilized the latest technologies and modeling techniques to allow energy analysts and risk managers to meet today’s challenges.

This position will help Ascend Analytics bring energy analytics to support energy decision analysis in resource planning, renewable generation, energy storage, energy risk management software to electric utilities and other energy industry clients. We're looking for talented individuals with a serious commitment to energy analytics, software, empirical modeling, financial engineering and portfolio management.

* Perform quantitative analysis and work collaboratively * Devise new approaches to represent results that provide support for decision analysis * Assimilate complex information into readily understood reports and presentations * Perform in-depth analysis of power market operations * Provide clients with expertise in the areas of analytic modeling for risk management, asset valuation, resource planning, and renewable integration * Solve complex analytic problems to make mission critical decisions for energy supply * Apply “best business practices” and standards for energy risk management and relate them to the Ascend software solution * Write documentation, specify software functionality and develop training videos * Serve as a technical resource for scoping, building, deploying, and launch activities * Provide clients with on-site and web-based software training * Devise new approaches to represent results that provide real-time support for decision analysis

**Skills & Knowledge** * Strong interpersonal skills, teamwork skills and work ethic * Excellent verbal and written communication skills * Ability to prioritize multiple assignments and problem solve with minimum supervision * Excellent organizational skills * Demonstrated track record of working with clients and team * Knowledge of structured programming * Proficiency with analytic software programming (SAS, R, Python or other languages) * Familiarity with database programs (SQL, Oracle) **Education & Experience** * Energy industry experience, including knowledge of deregulated power market operations * Financial engineering background, including knowledge of stochastic processes, Monte Carlo simulation, option pricing theory and numerical methods * Software development experience * Project management experience * Must have an undergraduate degree to apply; advanced degrees in finance, economics, engineering, and energy may be preferable