Inspired PLC

Inspired PLC is a UK market leading technology enabled provider of energy and sustainability advisory services. Since 2000, it has grown in scale and capability and is servicing over 3,400 UK and Irish clients across all sectors.

To enable businesses to respond to the climate emergency, we focus on solving their toughest challenges. By managing data comprehensively, sourcing energy sustainably and reducing carbon efficiently, we allow our clients to control costs effectively, make authentic ESG disclosures, improve their business performance, whilst powering their journey to net zero.

This role is ideally suited to a career minded, ambitious individual who is looking for that unique opportunity to prove what they can do and then be rewarded for it. We are looking for a Market Analyst to join our successful Commercial Services Team team. This is a Home Based role, with some occasional travel required to our Kirkham head office.

Role and Responsibilities

The successful candidate's responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Market reporting: We produce a variety of market intelligence from written reports to presentations. As part of the team, you would be responsible for writing about significant market events that could impact energy commodity prices, fundamentals impacting the market (e.g., gas demand, renewable generation, etc), reviews of what prices have done and why, and our outlook on where prices could go.
  
  
• Research: We often do deep dives into specific market dynamics and write long-form content to share this information internally and with clients.
  
  
• Analysis: We produce pieces of market analysis looking at correlations between market fundamentals and prices to help us make more informed decisions about what is driving market prices.
  
  
• Data fetching and visualisation: We take data from a variety of different sources and make it available internally. We often display this data as charts in Excel or PowerBI to make it more consumable.
  
  Experience and Qualifications
  
  Essential:
  
  
• STEM or economics/finance background. The role will involve research and some statistical analysis so a background of using this would be helpful.
  
  
• Experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) necessary.
  
  
• Short- and long-form writing experience.
  
  Desirable:
  
  
• Experience in energy markets. As part of your training, you will be taught how wholesale energy markets work and what drives prices.
  
  
• Coding experience in VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) and/or Python. Use of APIs to fetch data in any language would be useful.
  
  
• PowerBI experience desired but not necessary.
  
  Opportunities for you:
  
  
• As part of the Market Analysis team, you will have an opportunity to gain your Technical Analysis qualifications (run by the Society of Technical Analysts).
  
  
• Learn how to write code to fetch and manipulate data. In the future there may also be opportunities to do deeper analysis of this data through machine learning (AI).
  
  
• For those interested in risk management, the market analysis position serves to give you the necessary market understanding to be able to move into a risk management position.
  
  
• There may be opportunities to learn about and implement financial models for energy commodity pricing.
  
  What we offer
  
  
• Training and development opportunities
  
  
• Company pension
  
  
• Flexible work hours
  
  
• Sharesave scheme
  
  
• Life insurance
  
  
• 4pm finish on Friday
  
  
• Access to a wide range of voluntary benefits through our Inspired Benefits Portal
  
  If you are interested in the role and would like to be considered, please apply now and a member of our In House Recruitment Team will be in touch. Good Luck