Senior Research Analyst

Company Description
Wood Mackenzie is the global leader in data, analysis and consulting across the energy, chemicals, metals, mining, power and renewables sectors.
Founded in 1973, our success has always been underpinned by the simple principle of providing trusted research and advice that makes a difference to our customers. Today we have over 2,000 customers ranging from the largest global energy companies and financial institutions to governments as well as smaller market specialists.
Our teams are located around the world. This enables us to stay closely connected with customers and the markets and sectors we cover. Collectively this allows us to offer a compelling combination of global commodity analysis with detailed local market knowledge.
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**Job Description**:
We are looking for a **Research Analyst** to join Wood Mackenzie's Power and Renewables team in **Rio de Janeiro, Brazil**.** The Power and Renewables research team provides integrated subscription, research and advisory services to inform and support our client's commercial and strategic decisions in the complex and rapidly changing electric power industry. Combining our deep knowledge of solar, wind, storage, and grid technologies, with our global power and fuels modeling and analytical capabilities, Wood Mackenzie can provide data and insight spanning supply chain, technology costs, policy and market issues, fundamentals-based outlooks, price forecasting, asset valuation, and commodity market issues.
The Research Analyst will contribute to the delivery of long-term outlooks for the Southern Cone power market which includes Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia and Chile. The outlooks are based on analysis of the dynamics impacting the power and renewables sector in the country. This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing team and make a major contribution to the energy transition solution.
The Research Analyst will help assist in the development and operation of models, databases and reports for the Southern Cone power markets. These responsibilities will include collecting market information/intelligence, analyzing data to generate market insights, and building analytical models to create market forecasts. The analyst will also be a point of contact between Wood Mackenzie and industry stakeholders and clients in the coverage area.
**Main Responsibilities**
- Contribute to market analysis on Wood Mackenzie's long-term Southern Cone power outlooks.
- Own the development and improvement of Wood Mackenzie's proprietary analytical models that underpin the market coverage.
- Develop and maintain forecast models and data sets across verticals within the Power & Renewabl

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