Graduate Analyst Programme - Energy & Resources

About Baringa

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise, and enabled by advanced technology, the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2,000 people across the UK, Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, the firm combines global insight with local understanding.

The firm works across energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms, with capabilities spanning strategy, transformation and operational excellence – all powered by advanced technology, data, AI and digital innovation.

Clients value Baringa’s collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly – all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind, curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets, modernise financial platforms, expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics, enable digital services in government, and unlock growth in consumer sectors.

Certified as a Great Place to Work around the world, Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings, and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the World’s Best Management Consulting Firms.

Our Graduate Analyst Programme

Our Graduate Analyst role offers the opportunity to start and grow your career at Baringa. As a permanent member of our team from day one, you'll work on a variety of real client and internal projects, develop valuable skills, and make a meaningful contribution from the outset.

You'll work alongside experienced consultants, building both your technical and professional capabilities through structured learning, hands-on experience, and ongoing development opportunities. Along the way, you'll build relationships across the business, collaborate with colleagues from different teams and sectors, and contribute to work that makes a real impact.

If you're a recent graduate looking to kick-start your career, Baringa offers a supportive and collaborative environment where you can develop your skills, gain practical experience, and build a successful long-term future with us.

We're looking for Graduate Analysts to join our Energy & Resources practice, with opportunities available across several of our specialist business units. During the application process, you'll have the opportunity to select the business unit that best aligns with your interests and aspirations.

The business units currently hiring are:

Commodities Energy & Trading

Our commodities and energy trading focused team operates across all major commodity and energy companies in Europe, the US and Singapore. From metals traders and miners, through oil majors, freight and shipping specialists to power and gas traders. Our people bring deep industry expertise to help our clients translate strategy into action, to enter new markets, build new trading capabilities, and to revolutionize their IT landscapes.

"From day one I have worked directly with clients on their complex trading transformation journeys. This has involved face-to-face engagement with our internationally based clients, visiting client site within weeks of starting at Baringa."

Desired skills: Problem solving, IT interest, data skills, interest in commodity markets, personable and confident on client site

Desired Degrees: Engineering, Economics, Data science

Energy Products

We turn Baringa's deep energy market expertise into trusted data, insights and software products that our clients rely on as they navigate the energy transition. Our team create the market simulations and forecasts used by investors, developers, and utilities around the world to support strategic decision-making. We combine experts covering energy markets, data science, software development, and economics to create digestible data-led insight to our clients. Depending on your background you could be working with either our market research, modelling, or communications teams

Desired Skills: A keen interest in energy markets, comfortable handling large datasets and extracting insight for a wide audience, clear presentation and storytelling ability, programming (e.g. Python, SQL), using AI (for coding, for agentic workflows), experience using numerical models/simulation, interpersonal skills.

Desired Degrees: STEM subjects, Economics, Operational Research

Markets & Transactions

We help investors, developers, utilities, lenders and corporates make well-informed commercial decisions across the energy transition. We combine deep expertise in energy markets and infrastructure with strong commercial and transaction advisory capabilities.

Our work ranges from market fundamentals analysis, power price forecasting and asset optimisation through to commercial strategy, M&A transactions, financing processes and investment due diligence. We work on some of the energy sector's most complex and high-profile challenges, helping clients deploy capital, manage risk and unlock value in rapidly evolving markets.

Successful candidates will combine analytical rigour and curiosity with a strong commercial mindset, and an interest in understanding how energy markets, investment decisions and business strategy intersect.

Desired Skills: Commercial acumen and strategic thinking, Quantitative analysis, modelling and data interpretation, Structured problem-solving and critical thinking, Energy market and energy systems knowledge, financial analysis and investment appraisal, Strong communication, stakeholder management and interpersonal skills, Ability to synthesise complex information into clear recommendations

Desired Degrees: Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Finance, Business / Management, Data Science, Statistics or Operational Research, Other quantitative disciplines.

Economics, Policy, Regulation, and Commercial

We support clients from policy development to implementation, from regulatory strategies to business case submissions, and from competition cases to expert opinion. Our economists, policy specialists, regulatory experts and techno-economic modellers work alongside governments, regulators, investors and corporates - shaping the frameworks and decisions that underpin multi-billion-pound investment across energy, utilities and wider infrastructure.

Desired Skills: Economic and quantitative analysis, written communication, structured problem-solving, policy & regulatory awareness, interpersonal skills.

Desired Degrees: Economics, Public Policy, Politics/PPE, Econometrics, Statistics, Finance

Transition, Assets and Infrastructure

Our Transition, Assets & Infrastructure team helps energy, utilities and infrastructure organisations deliver complex transformation across the full asset asset lifecycle from capital programmes, asset management, operate and maintain and decommissioning. We work with clients to develop their asset strategy, improve the performance of critical infrastructure, deliver large-scale capital investments, shape future operating models, and unlock value through technology, data and AI. Combining expertise in engineering, project delivery, operations, technology and business transformation, we help clients solve complex challenges and deliver lasting outcomes across asset-intensive industries.

Desired Skills: Problem Solving, Curiosity & Learning Mindset, Strong Communication Skills, Analytical & Structured Thinking, Interest in Energy, Infrastructure and Technology

Desired Degrees: STEM including engineering disciplines, Data Science, etc.

So, what's in it for you?

• You’ll join with a cohort of our Graduate Analysts. As a cohort, you will participate in our Analyst Development Programme. Our programme is designed to develop the client, commercial and people skills that you need for a successful career at Baringa.

• You will join our Global Analyst Community, connecting Analysts with one another to share their experiences and lessons learnt, whilst also gaining knowledge and skills from experienced Baringa people

• You decide on the development you need. We invest in you, to ensure you remain the best in the business, through formal training and qualifications, coaching and mentoring.

• You can talk to anyone in the business. There are no barriers, and everyone is accessible, from our Analysts to our Partners. Out Partner to consultant ratio of 1:10, means you get to learn and work alongside our Directors and Partners on a daily basis.

• We’re proud to put people first with wellbeing at the forefront of our culture, one example of this is that every employee receives £300 a year to put towards their wellbeing!

• All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme, which seeks to ensure that everyone has a stake in the success of the company.

• We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break - As such we have introduced the ‘Re-charge’ benefit meaning Baringa will offer all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.

• Lastly, we recognise the importance of work-life balance and we know that the ‘ideal’ balance will vary from person to person and will change at different stages of our working lives.

Requirements:

• Applicants must have the permanent right to work in the UK now and in the future.

• All applicants will be asked for proof if invited to an assessment centre.

Please note we’re unable to sponsor individuals for this opportunity.

Key Dates:

• Application window closes:

• Assessment centres:

We are looking for individuals to start with Baringa May 2027/September 2027

What a career at Baringa will give you

Putting People First.

Baringa is a People First company and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.

• Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.

• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.

• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.

• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.

An award-winning workplace

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.

Using business as a force for good.

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.

Join us

All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.

Baringa Privacy Notices

For UK & EU

Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our UK Recruitment Privacy Notice / EU Recruitment Privacy Notice, to evaluate your application and meet our legal and reporting obligations. In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to request access to, rectification, or erasure (subject to legal limitations) of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at privacy@baringa.com

For the USA

Your personal data may be retained by Baringa for up to two years, as outlined in our Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC), to support the recruitment process and internal reporting requirements. Where applicable, and in accordance with relevant federal and state laws, you may have the right to request access to or correction of your personal information. For further details, please contact privacy@baringa.com

For Australia & Singapore

Your personal data will be retained by Baringa for up to two years, in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice (AMER & APAC), to assess your application and meet applicable reporting and legal obligations. In line with the Australian Privacy Act and Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), you may have rights to access, correct, or request limited deletion of your personal data. For more information, please contact us at privacy@baringa.com