Company Description
Wood Mackenzie are the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision making.
Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector teams are located around the world and deliver a variety of projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies, and economic indicators such as market supply, demand, and price trends.
We have over 1,900 employees in 30 locations, serving customers in nearly 80 countries. Together, we inspire and innovate the markets we serve – providing invaluable intelligence to help our customers overcome the toughest challenges, and make strategic decisions that will, ultimately, accelerate the world’s transition to a more sustainable future.
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Job Description
Wood Mackenzie are an industry-leading research and advisory company that provides analysis and insight on the world’s natural resources with offices all around the globe.
Wood Mackenzie’s Carbon Research team aspires to enable clients across the energy value chain to understand and respond to market and portfolio-related climate risks and opportunities by providing comprehensive, decision-useful carbon data and analytics. Some of the services we provide include calculation and benchmarking of emissions across the full value chain of commodities, tracking and forecasting of carbon prices, and research and reporting on carbon markets.
The Carbon team is growing quickly as we help to drive the pace and scale of the energy transition and to serve different customer segments with integrated analysis. In the Carbon team we model greenhouse gas emissions across a number of different sectors and value chains, including oil and gas, metals and mined commodities. We support clients across the energy value chain to understand and respond to market and portfolio-related climate risks and opportunities by providing comprehensive, decision-useful carbon data and analytics. Some of the services we provide include calculation and benchmarking of emissions across the full value chain of commodities, tracking and forecasting of carbon prices, and research and reporting on carbon markets.
Role Purpose
This role will serve as part of Wood Mackenzie’s Carbon research team. This is an excellent opportunity to join a strong, global team and make a major contribution to decarbonization and the energy transition at a global scale.
You will work together with our other global Carbon research team members and with the analysts from our commodities teams (including oil and gas, metals and mining, and power and renewables) to calibrate, improve and expand our emissions data and research, ensuring we remain at the leading edge of this critical analysis. You will also support research relating to carbon pricing and assessing its impact to asset and company valuations.
Emissions data and modelling contributes to Wood Mackenzie’s Emissions Benchmarking Tool (EBT), Lens and numerous other tools and services; as such, you will also become a go-to person to support stakeholders from related functions such as our data and product teams.
Developing relationships with industry partners will also be key in this role. Through your research and industry engagement, you will establish a knowledge base to test assumptions on methodologies, as well as to represent Wood Mackenzie’s research in a high-quality way to clients.
Main responsibilities
The Analyst is expected to:
- Support in the modelling of WoodMac’s GHG emissions estimations, in collaboration with commodity experts in the Carbon research team, and ensure high quality data and methodological alignment. Specifically, this includes:
- Keeping cross-commodity assumptions updated, for emissions calculation;
- Performing calibration of emissions estimates against public sources and corporate reports;
- Testing the robustness of emissions metrics (including corporate/economic metrics such as value at risk);
- Ensuring the robustness of data flows across various commodities, taking a value chain and/or corporate approach.
- Helping colleagues in other teams integrate emissions and/or carbon prices into their commodities’ modelling.
- Work closely with the Emissions Benchmarking Tool product owner to address modelling, testing and calibration priorities.
- Collaborate effectively with colleagues in the Carbon research team and others to establish best practices and consistency for GHG emissions across all commodities.
- Contribute to written analysis and other research to highlight interesting and relevant trends in emissions for various commodities.
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Qualifications
Our products and people are our intellectual capital, so we welcome and reward intellectual excellence, curiosity, and sophisticated thinking and look for:
- 2-3 years of experience in any of the following sectors: oil and gas (including petrochemicals), metals and mining, power and renewables.
- Knowledge and hands-on experience of energy or emissions modelling, typically in XLS but some experience with programmes such as Python/R as bonus.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities. Interest in using both qualitative and quantitative methods to answer clients’ questions.
- Self-driven. Capable of switching between the roles of an individual contributor and a collaborator.
- Strong communication skills. Comfortable interacting with clients and industry stakeholders across different time zones and as part of a global team.
- An engaging nature, capable of connecting with co-workers, clients and industry stakeholders in a wide range of professional settings.
- Passionate, with a deep intellectual curiosity about the energy transition.
Additional Information
“Wood Mackenzie is a place where we are committed to supporting our people to grow and thrive. We value different perspectives and aspire to create an inclusive environment which encourages diversity and fosters a sense of belonging.
Wood Mackenzie values everyone’s contribution and helps them reach their full potential while sustaining an organisational culture of health and well-being.
Our core values are:
- Inclusive – we succeed together
- Trusting – we choose to trust each other
- Customer committed – we put customers at the heart of our decisions
- Future Focused – we accelerate change
- Curious – we turn knowledge into action
We understand the importance of bringing your whole self to work and to achieving balance between work, family and other life commitments. We are open to considering flexible working arrangements to enable the greatest spectrum of talent to contribute to Wood Mackenzie's success.
Hear what our team has to say about working with us: https://www.woodmac.com/careers/our-people/
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