About us:
Workbench Energy is a fast-growing software and services company specializing in electricity markets. We help large power users, distributed energy resources, large-scale batteries) and grid-connected generators optimize revenues, cost savings, and carbon impacts. Our software, tools and experience are leading the enablement of the modern power grid with distributed and sustainable resources.
About the role:
As an Energy Analyst, you are responsible for ongoing review of participation in the Ontario IESO-administered markets. This includes meter setup and management, analysis of operations, commercial strategy and client reports as well as ongoing IESO settlement review.
At Workbench Energy, we strive to understand the specific needs of each client and to ensure that the service we’re providing meets those needs. Our client support includes commercial operations support in the Ontario energy market for dispatchable generation, storage and load facilities with varying capacity obligations, and demand response resources participating in annual capacity auctions. Our Energy Operations team manages the real-time interactions in the IESO markets. As an Energy Markets Analyst, you would be supporting the commercial team in analysis, reporting, settlements and operational feedback of loads, generators and electricity storage facilities, with ongoing data review of activity under the IESO’s renewed market.
This position will lay the foundation for you for a successful career in Ontario’s energy and sustainability sector, with significant growth opportunity within our organization as the sector, and our place within it, continue to evolve.
We’re looking for applicants with relevant university education, and a keen focus on building and maintaining strong relationships with clients in the energy sector. Experience in the Ontario power sector and in energy management and sustainability is a plus.
Your success:
Your success as a member of our team will require you to be organized, detail-oriented, interested in learning and understanding the nuances of the IESO market rules and an excellent communicator. You will build an understanding of the energy and carbon markets to provide valuable research, analysis, communication and support to the internal team and clients.
We will provide you with training on our current clients, IESO interactions, and our suite of services: those in production and those in development. Ultimately, you’ll be responsible for ongoing data analysis in many different areas of the business, meter management, client reporting, filing settlement disagreements and using your growing understanding of the IESO markets to help support success in operating in the IESO Ontario markets.
Desired skills and qualifications:
- Positive, self motivated
- Interested in power and sustainability
- Logical and practical, with proven problem-solving abilities
- A spreadsheet guru, or at least a guru-in-training. Our clients like data. We like data. You should definitely like data.
- Be able to learn and utilize AI and data science tools to enhance understanding and efficiencies.
- A great communicator – written and verbal communication skills are key to your success.
- A team player! We are a small team, so fit is important.
- Hold a Bachelor’s degree or have equivalent sector experience
- Proficient with the Microsoft Office suite, in particular Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience with SQL, Python, Tableau, Power BI and similar tools is a plus
Additional details:
- Office is located downtown Toronto
- Start date: September 2025
- Hybrid: combination of in-office and work from home.
- Salary range $50,000 to $60,000
