Quantitative Analyst at HR Studio (Pty) Ltd

We’re looking for…

• An extremely analytical and passionate individual to join our client’s team as a Graduate Quantitative analyst or Data Scientist.

Who are you?

• You have strong organizational and time management skills
• Proven ability to handle confidential information
• Ability to work independently and handle multiple tasks simultaneously

What’s the role?

You will be responsible for:

• Operations pricing
• Building a model and calculating prices based on current business rules in the organization.
• The model will need to be continuously updated as the market changes.
• The model will consist of: Generation database, Tariff database, and Off-take database.
• The model must perform mathematical operations on selected inputs from the different databases.
• Operations Risk Monitoring
• Linking to the databases above, build a dashboard to gain insight into current operations as well as evaluate the risk based on stochastic modelling of generation and off-takers.
• Scenario modelling
• The South African market is constantly changing. The employee will be responsible for building models to evaluate different scenarios as the market changes (i.e. changes to tariff structures).
• This will consist of some market research to gather/improve the inputs to the model.
• Generation modelling (optional)
• High-level renewable energy resource modelling (solar / wind).
• Evaluate different sites (locations) and determine the generation resource available based on the location.

Boxes to tick…

• Matric
• Tertiary Qualification - Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, statistics, computer science, economics, or a related field or equivalent experience
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Familiarity with PVsyst or similar – advantageous