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Advisory (Senior) Associate, Origination - PPAs, BESS and Energy Contracting
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The Role
Support renewable energy and BESS clients with route-to-market and offtake strategies. Evaluate revenue streams, market risks, contract structures, tender processes, and investment cases, while assisting with PPA and BESS agreement negotiations. Lead analytical workstreams, develop client recommendations and materials, contribute to business development, and help build origination tools for European energy markets.
Summary Generated by Built In
Joining our Origination team in Athens, you will play a key role in supporting renewable energy and BESS developers, investors, IPPs and asset owners as they commercialise assets and secure bankable route-to-market arrangements. Reporting into the Head of Origination, you will help clients evaluate offtake strategies, run tender processes, assess commercial structures, and support the negotiation of PPAs and BESS-related agreements through to close.
A particular focus of this role will be BESS, renewables and hybrid asset structures, requiring a strong understanding of how storage participates in energy, balancing, ancillary-service and flexibility markets and creates value within increasingly renewable power systems.
You will combine strong commercial judgement with analytical capability, working closely with clients to understand their strategic objectives and translate complex market dynamics into actionable recommendations. You will also support business development activities, helping to identify new opportunities and grow Aurora's origination offering across Europe.
This is a dynamic, intellectually stimulating and client-facing role, offering significant responsibility, exposure to senior stakeholders, and the opportunity to influence major investment and commercial decisions across the energy transition.
A particular focus of this role will be BESS, renewables and hybrid asset structures, requiring a strong understanding of how storage participates in energy, balancing, ancillary-service and flexibility markets and creates value within increasingly renewable power systems.
You will combine strong commercial judgement with analytical capability, working closely with clients to understand their strategic objectives and translate complex market dynamics into actionable recommendations. You will also support business development activities, helping to identify new opportunities and grow Aurora's origination offering across Europe.
This is a dynamic, intellectually stimulating and client-facing role, offering significant responsibility, exposure to senior stakeholders, and the opportunity to influence major investment and commercial decisions across the energy transition.
Key Responsibilities
- Support renewable energy and BESS developers, investors, IPPs and asset owners in evaluating route-to-market and offtake strategies for standalone and hybrid assets.
- Work closely with the Head of Origination to identify, develop, and convert client opportunities, including direct involvement in client discussions.
- Support PPA, FPA, tolling, floor and hybrid-contract processes, including tender preparation, bid evaluation, commercial structuring and negotiation support.
- Assess market revenues, risk allocation, capture prices, shape/profile risk, imbalance exposure, collateral requirements and bankability implications.
- Lead workstreams and smaller project teams to deliver rigorous commercial analysis and clear client recommendations.
- Prepare client-facing materials, proposal content, pitch decks, workshop materials and transaction-support deliverables.
- Contribute to the continued development of Aurora's origination toolkit, including playbooks, templates, benchmarks and repeatable approaches across BESS and renewable offtake.
- Work with advisory, research and software teams to bring Aurora's market intelligence and modelling capabilities into origination mandates
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Required attributes:
- At least 4 years' experience in the electricity sector, working with renewable developers, storage developers, utilities, IPPs, investors, lenders, traders or corporates.
- Strong understanding of European power markets and the commercial drivers affecting renewable generation, BESS and hybrid assets (e.g. imbalance risk, balancing markets, ancillary services and flexibility revenues)
- Experience assessing offtake structures, revenue streams, merchant exposure, risk allocation and investment cases for renewable or storage projects.
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills, with the ability to interpret market information and translate it into clear commercial recommendations.
- Excellent client-facing, communication and stakeholder-management skills.
- Demonstrated success managing workstreams or project teams.
- Ability to work with both technical and commercial stakeholders.
- Evidence of strong performance in team-oriented environments.
- Written and spoken fluency in English.
Desirable attributes:
- Experience in PPA/FPA origination, route-to-market advisory, electricity trading, BESS optimisation, tolling/floor agreements or structured energy transactions.
- Experience in renewable offtake, BESS commercialisation, PPA/FPA origination, route-to-market advisory, trading, project finance or asset optimisation
- Additional European languages would be beneficial.
What we offer
Some of the benefits we include are:
- Meal Cards
- Private Medical Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Holiday Entitlement
- Hybrid Working
At AER, we are committed to offering flexibility in the way we work. Most of our roles are hybrid with a mix of in-office/home working and potentially adjustable working hours. Let’s discuss what works for you and AER during the interview process.
The Company is committed to the principle that no employee or job applicant shall receive unfavourable treatment on grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy, and maternity.
To apply, please submit your Résumé / CV, a personal summary, your salary expectations and please inform us of your notice period.
Unfortunately, we are unable to accept applications via email, telephone, or social media platforms. To be considered for this position, please submit your application using the link provided. Applications submitted through any other channel will not be reviewed.
Unfortunately, we are unable to accept applications via email, telephone, or social media platforms. To be considered for this position, please submit your application using the link provided. Applications submitted through any other channel will not be reviewed.
About
From its academic roots, Aurora Energy Research is a thriving, rapidly growing company, currently serving over 1000 of the world’s most influential energy sector participants, including utilities, investors, and governments. While we constantly strive to reach new markets and diversify our product portfolio, we are already active across the globe in Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Europe, South Africa and North America, working with leading organisations to provide comprehensive market intelligence, bespoke analytic and advisory services, and cutting-edge software. We are a diverse team of experts with vast energy, financial, and consulting backgrounds, covering power, hydrogen, carbon, and fossil commodities. With this, we provide data-driven intelligence to fuel strategic decisions in the global energy transformation.
Skills Required
- At least 4 years of experience in the electricity sector
- Experience working with renewable developers, storage developers, utilities, IPPs, investors, lenders, traders, or corporates
- Strong understanding of European power markets and commercial drivers affecting renewable generation, BESS, and hybrid assets
- Experience assessing offtake structures, revenue streams, merchant exposure, risk allocation, and investment cases for renewable or storage projects
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills
- Ability to translate market information into clear commercial recommendations
- Excellent client-facing, communication, and stakeholder-management skills
- Demonstrated success managing workstreams or project teams
- Ability to work with technical and commercial stakeholders
- Strong performance in team-oriented environments
- Written and spoken fluency in English
- Experience in PPA or FPA origination, route-to-market advisory, electricity trading, BESS optimisation, tolling or floor agreements, or structured energy transactions
- Experience in renewable offtake, BESS commercialisation, trading, project finance, or asset optimisation
- Additional European languages
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What We Do
From its academic roots, Aurora Energy Research has grown to become the largest dedicated power market analytics company in Europe, providing data-driven intelligence for strategic decisions in the global energy transformation. We are a diverse team of over 350 experts with vast energy, financial and consulting backgrounds, covering power, hydrogen, carbon and fossil commodities. We are active in Europe, APAC and the US, working with world-leading organisations to provide comprehensive market intelligence, bespoke analytic and advisory services, and cutting-edge software.
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