Lead Data Analyst - Energy Spot Markets

About the Role:

OPIS - a Dow Jones Company, is looking to expand its analytics capabilities within our Spot Editorial team. As Lead Data Analyst - Energy Spot Markets, you will use your comprehensive technical skills to gather and analyze Americas spot market fundamentals data. You will innovate streamlined processes and manage the creation of new reports, to enhance the work of our team of energy price editors at OPIS/Dow Jones Energy. You will also act as a backup price assessor to provide another layer of depth to content and operations.You have a deep understanding of how to illustrate market trends and identify key insights using fundamentals, statistics and modeling while incorporating economic and market sentiment indicators. You will use your strong writing and data visualization skills to communicate findings internally to daily price reporters and/or externally to customers through published news content. You will report to the Journalism Director.

About the Team:

OPIS, a Dow Jones company, provides price transparency across the global fuel supply chain, including the Spot, Wholesale Rack and Retail markets. OPIS enables customers to buy and sell energy commodities with confidence with multi-platform access to accurate data, real-time news, powerful software and educational events. Our commitment to reliability is reinforced by personalized customer service and constant innovation. OPIS listens to what the energy community needs and responds with flexible and easy-to-use products. Navigating world fuel markets is complex – OPIS makes it simpler.

You Will:

• Apply advanced data analytical skills to cleanse, refine, and pre-process data from multiple data sources and databases to ensure high quality data

• Identify, compare and test new data streams

• Use visualization techniques to discover insights and data patterns and communicate these findings to OPIS spot price market editors

• Collaborate on and/or singularly generate editorial content such as analytic news stories, daily market commentary briefs and presentations

• Identify and problem solve areas of potential editorial workflow enhancement with tech resources

• Lead initiatives as we expand supplemental data offerings, from Proof of Concept, to submitting New Project Requests to serving as a Product Owner throughout the PD&D implementation

• Work closely as an editorial liaison with the business and the technical development teams to ensure all preliminary product feasibility code follows Technology Best Practices so that the development teams can productize and deploy the code in a production environment

• Act in a secondary role as a markets editor responsible for collecting and analyzing trade information to assess daily pricing indices for fuel spot markets

• Stay up-to-date on fuel market fundamentals and trends through ample outside research and work toward becoming an information center for the Americas refined product, bunker fuel, shipping, feedstock and renewables editorial teams​

​ You Have:

• 5+ years’ experience working as a research analyst performing data mining, cleansing and preprocessing to ensure high data quality and discovery of data insights

• Intermediate SQL and relational database experience

• Intermediate Python experience

• Conducted data analytics and applied real-world statistical concepts

• Experience with BI Visualization Software (Microsoft Power BI)

Our Benefits

• Comprehensive Healthcare Plans

• Paid Time Off

• Retirement Plans

• Comprehensive Insurance Plans

• Lifestyle programs & Wellness Resources

• Education Benefits

• Family Care Benefits & Caregiving Support

• Commuter Transit Program

• Subscription Discounts

• Employee Referral Program

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Business Area: Dow Jones - Energy

Job Category: Data Analytics/Warehousing & Business Intelligence

Union Status:

Non-Union role

Base Pay Range: $100,000 - $125,000

We’re committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors.

For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions.

For benefits-eligible roles, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.

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Req ID: 52587