Careers

Who are GridBeyond?

GridBeyond are a green tech energy scale-up company, with big plans to disrupt the energy sector on a relentless course to achieve our vision of delivering a global zero carbon future. With well-established roots in the demand side response space, we have expanded our commercial strategic thinking and product portfolio to enable us to break new global market barriers.

How do GridBeyond do this?

We do this by living our Mission, leveraging AI to innovate and collaborate with our customers creating optimal value from renewable energy generation, demand and storage to deliver a zero-carbon future.

What’s the business and culture like?

Over the last 24 months, we have doubled the amount of people that work with us and expanded our business operations over an international landscape.  With people working in Ireland, UK, US, Japan and Australia-we are company that understands the importance of connection and thrive on the purpose of our work. We are proud to contribute to a greener, cleaner world for everyone to live in.

What’s this role about?

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Head of Trading to lead our trading team and drive profitability for our energy trading desk. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in energy trading, exceptional leadership skills, and a proven track record of success in managing trading activities within the energy sector. This is a Hybrid role, based from our Dublin office in Citywest.

What will I be doing?

• Develop and implement trading strategies: Develop and execute trading strategies to optimize profitability and manage risk in alignment with the company’s overall goals and market conditions.
• Lead trading team: Provide leadership and direction to the trading team, in managing and implement trading strategies for utility scale volumes of BESS, Wind , Solar & DR assets.
• Ensure efficient and effective operation and co-ordination between trading strategy and trading operations teams.
• Risk Management: Implement robust risk management practices to monitor and mitigate trading risks, including market, credit, and operational risks.
• Market analysis: Stay abreast of market developments, trends, and regulatory changes in the energy sector to inform trading strategies and decision-making.
• Relationship management: Build and maintain relationships with key counterparties, including customers, brokers, and exchanges, to facilitate trading activities and identify new opportunities.
• Compliance: Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and internal policies governing trading activities, including reporting requirements and ethical standards.
• Performance Monitoring: Monitor and analyse trading performance, including P&L, trading metrics, and key performance indicators, to assess effectiveness and identify areas for improvement.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including risk management, finance, operations, and legal, to support business objectives and optimize trading activities
• Guiding the evolution of our global market leading forecasting and optimization platform capabilities working closely with our product team.

What do I need to be a good technical fit for this role?

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, economics, engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Proven experience (10+ years) in energy trading, with a deep understanding of energy markets, products, and trading strategies.
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing and developing high-performing teams.
• Excellent analytical and quantitative skills, with the ability to analyze complex data and make informed trading decisions.
• Proficiency in trading platforms and market analysis tools.
• Solid understanding of risk management principles and practices.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and negotiate effectively.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, with a strong focus on results and continuous improvement.

What behaviours are rewarded at GridBeyond?

• Customer Obsession– We keep our customers at the forefront of every decision we make.
• Relentless- We push beyond boundaries, overcome obstacles. We refuse to give up and will never settle for less than world class.
• Integrity – We are committed to conducting ourselves with honesty, ethics, and transparency. We foster trust and respect with our colleagues, customers and partners.
• Agility- We value agility and the willingness to embrace new ideas and technologies.
• Collaboration– We foster a culture of cooperation, communication, and shared

Can you tell me about the benefits?

• Excellent salary and overall package commensurate to experience
• 33 paid days off per year (including bank holidays), that increases over time
• Pension with generous employer contribution
• Paid market leading medical cover plan with Irish Life or Medical allowance if you prefer
• Self- development funding
• Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Flexible and hybrid working model

Role : Accounts Assistant

Reporting to: Head of Finance

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Who are GridBeyond?

GridBeyond are a green tech energy scale-up company, with big plans to disrupt the energy sector on a relentless course to achieve our vision of delivering a global zero carbon future. With well-established roots in the demand side response space, we have expanded our commercial strategical thinking and product portfolio to enable us to break new global market barriers.

How do GridBeyond do this?

We do this by living our Mission, leveraging AI to innovate and collaborate with our customers creating optimal value from renewable energy generation, demand and storage to deliver a zero-carbon future.

What’s business and culture like?

Over the last 24 months, we have doubled the number of people that work with us and expanded our business operations over an international landscape. With people working in Ireland, UK, US, Japan and Australia-we are a company that understands the importance of connection and thrive on the purpose of our work. We are proud to contribute to a greener, cleaner world for everyone to live in.

What’s this role about?

The Accountants Assistant will be responsible for a wide variety of tasks including, but not limited to, the calculation of amounts due to customers, the preparation of customer statements, the preparation of reconciliations and various other duties. This is a role which requires flexibility, and ability to work autonomously and a willingness to collaborate with colleagues both within the finance function and across the wider organisation.

The successful candidate will be given autonomy to take ownership of the customer disbursements process while also supporting the finance function with general finance activities. You will benefit from joining a team who will take the time to explain, support, and guide you to build confidence and develop the skills required to excel in the role. It is a place where you can learn, develop, and feel genuinely supported along the way.

What will I be doing?

• Verification of amounts due to customers using our bespoke software tools.
• Preparation of customer statements to ensure customer accounts are kept up to date.
• Identifying enhancements and automation to the customer statement preparation process.
• Working with other stakeholders to improve systems and processes as required.
• Responding to customer queries, liaising with account managers and other internal stakeholders on customer issues.
• Compliance with and maintenance of appropriate internal controls to ensure completeness and accuracy of amounts payable.
• Assisting team with reporting, posting journals, preparing balance sheet reconciliations and supporting similar activities.
• Assisting team with vendor set up and bank account verification.
• Assisting team with employee expense process.
• Administration of the Finance email address.
• Maintaining bank mandate documentation and keeping records of authorised signatories
• Filing tax returns and preparing trackers to make sure deadlines are adhered to – monitoring compliance with deadlines.
• Running reports and preparing analyses to support management.
• Supporting the external audit by providing requested documentation.
• Providing inputs to cash flow forecasts.
• Assistance with Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting.
• Other ad hoc duties and tasks to support a growing business.

Qualifications and Skills

• Superior attention to detail
• Excellent organisation and time management skills
• Ability to work under pressure and to prioritise tasks effectively
• Experience in MS Office
• Ability to handle and protect confidential information.

What do I need to be a good technical fit for this role?

• A “can-do” attitude is a must, along with a sincere desire to develop your skillset
• Growth mindset, not satisfied with the status quo and constantly looking for better ways to complete tasks
• A degree of comfort in taking ownership of tasks and working off your own initiative
• Committed to carrying out tasks with due care and attention
• Strong inter personnel skills with an ability to support and influence senior financial and operational colleagues
• Excellent computer skills with knowledge of MS Office applications (in particular Excel)
• Fluency in English (both written and spoken) is essential to perform this role
• Experience with management reporting systems

What behaviors are rewarded at GridBeyond?

• Customer Obsession– We keep our customers at the forefront of every decision we make.
• Relentless- We push beyond boundaries, overcome obstacles. We refuse to give up and will never settle for less than world class.
• Integrity – We are committed to conducting ourselves with honesty, ethics, and transparency. We foster trust and respect with our colleagues, customers and partners.
• Agility- We value agility and the willingness to embrace new ideas and technologies.
• Collaboration– We foster a culture of cooperation, communication, and shared knowledge.

Can you tell me about the benefits?

• Excellent salary consummate to experience
• 33 paid days off per year (including bank holidays), that increases over time
• Pension with generous employer contribution
• Paid market leading medical cover plan with Irish Life or Medical allowance if you prefer
• Self- development funding
• Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Flexible and hybrid working model

Who are GridBeyond?

GridBeyond are a green tech energy scale-up company, with big plans to disrupt the energy sector on a relentless course to achieve our vision of delivering a global zero carbon future. With well-established roots in the demand side response space, we have expanded our commercial strategical thinking and product portfolio to enable us to break new global market barriers.

How do GridBeyond do this?

We do this by living our Mission, leveraging AI to innovate and collaborate with our customers creating optimal value from renewable energy generation, demand and storage to deliver a zero-carbon future.

What’s the business and culture like?

Over the last 24 months, we have doubled the amount of people that work with us and expanded our business operations over an international landscape. With people working in Ireland, UK, US, Japan and Australia-we are company that understands the importance of connection and thrive on the purpose of our work. We are proud to contribute to a greener, cleaner world for everyone to live in.

What’s this role about?

The following position will work within GridBeyond’s Market Optimisation team and will help GridBeyond provide its customers with a route to market to monetise flexibility and generation in all available energy markets and ancillary services. The role involves a close working relationship with our clients and our market Optimisation team requiring successful candidates to be involved in Optimisation and execution of trading strategies while ensuring all customer sites are responding to grid services. Successful candidates will also be involved in development of solutions, tools and reports whilst providing ongoing analysis of markets. This is a 24/7 shift work position enabling GridBeyond to cover ancillary and energy markets in Ireland, the UK, the US, Australia and Japan.

What will I be doing?

• Provide 24/7 monitoring on all our grid services live across the day for our diverse portfolio across Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and Japan. Understanding what is happening, being prepared to act when required depending on scenario, understanding when an issue has occurred and what to do with it.
• Optimising our portfolio in ancillary services (frequency, reserve) and energy markets. Analysing market dynamics, defining short term trading strategies. Trade execution and both, financial and physical management of our asset’s positions.
• Support and drive GridBeyond’s entry into new ancillary services and power markets. Understand market structure, analyse potential opportunities and definition and execution of trading strategies.
• Assessing and dealing with alarms taking ownership and responsibility to solve them in a timely fashion.
• Dealing with customer requests (report config, setpoint changes, schedule changes etc).
• Support GridBeyond smart grid services; application processes, generating and carrying out weekly and real-time declarations, declaration analysis, dispatch management, site/application alarms and generating customer statements.
• Contacting customers to ensure we have dispatch and engagement info up to date and that customers themselves are ready for dispatches.
• Ensuring we are always ready to deliver a dispatch to answer the needs of the Grid. Having procedures and staff at the ready to deliver.
• Monitoring delivery performance of services on an ongoing basis and preparing performance reports as required by grid operators.
• Develop understanding of customer sites, assets, and control techniques for current live sites
• Reporting unit performance and alarms to business on weekly basis.
• Carrying out energy analysis on customer data to determine efficiency savings, site energy usage issues and additional savings opportunities for both Ireland and UK clients.
• Cite-See (GridBeyond’s head end controller) support for deployment team.
• Centre-See and Customer Portal configuration and support for existing customer base.
• Provide feedback to the development team on tools and services to assist with energy analysis.
• Assist in the development of clients net zero strategy across numerous industries.
• Assist with the integration and carbon impact of new renewable technology solutions.
• Assist in the development of feasibility studies.
• Other activities and new service offerings that may arise as the role develops

What do I need to be a good technical fit for this role?

• Engineering degree (L7 or L8) or equivalent
• Understanding of trading, specifically energy trading a preference but not a requirement
• Good understanding of energy usage, energy billing across industrial and commercial retail buildings
• Interest in sustainability, renewable technologies, and carbon neutrality
• Experience of working a 24/7 shift roster a plus
• Strong communicator with well-developed interpersonal skills
• Produce presentations and reports to a professional standard
• Demonstrate the ability to work on your own initiative
• Organized, energetic and self-motivated
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office suite of software tools
• Highly numerate and analytical
• Good attention to detail

What behaviours are rewarded at GridBeyond?

• Customer Obsession– We keep our customers at the forefront of every decision we make.
• Relentless- We push beyond boundaries, overcome obstacles. We refuse to give up and will never settle for less than world class.
• Integrity – We are committed to conducting ourselves with honesty, ethics, and transparency. We foster trust and respect with our colleagues, customers and partners.
• Agility- We value agility and the willingness to embrace new ideas and technologies.
• Collaboration– We foster a culture of cooperation, communication, and shared knowledge.

Can you tell me about the benefits?

• 20% Shift allowance.
• Pension with generous employer contribution
• Paid market leading medical cover plan with Irish Life or Medical allowance if you prefer
• Self- development funding
• Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave