Day Ahead Coordinator

Day Ahead Coordinator

Support and assist NRG's day-ahead and real-time traders, through position management, data analysis, reporting, deal checkouts, and settlement reconciliation. Perform power or commodity scheduling duties for NRG's generation and load assets.

Responsibilities :

• Schedule and confirm all day-ahead physical, financial, and ancillary transactions in a timely and accurate manner in accordance with management and ISO requirements
• Create and submit Current Operating Plans (COP) accurately communicating our resource commitments and availability with ERCOT, and coordinate these plans with Trading and Asset Management
• Understand the basics of load resources and schedule them appropriately according to company contracts and market requirements
• Assess and analyze fundamental market conditions and other variables to maximize efficiency of company portfolio and market interactions.
• Create and implement scheduling & trade-entry tools, data sets, and information feeds to facilitate least cost scheduling, asset optimization, and bidding
• Coordinate both resource and transmission outage requests, execute submittals and monitor for ISO approval
• Communicate day-ahead strategies and open scheduling items to the Real-Time desk ensuring a continuation of strategy and appropriate asset management
• Complete checkouts of daily and monthly trade-entries
• Assist in dispute resolution processes as needed with Real Time and / or Trading when issues arise surrounding deal entry, scheduling, billing and / or settlement errors
• Analyze deviations from forecasted load and generation schedules with real-time actual data
• Monitor and provide analysis of ISO settlement files as needed and work with settlement group to identify and track discrepancies and issues
• Provide administrative support for Asset Managers and Portfolio Directors as needed
• Operate in compliance with NRG's Risk Management Policy, and NRG's Code of Conduct

Education / Experience :

Bachelor's degree in economics, business, finance, or other relevant degree or direct industry or military related experience

Qualifications :