Trades and manages European power and gas derivatives risk across linear and nonlinear products. Develops client trading, risk-management, and optimization solutions; conducts fundamentals analysis; supports proprietary analytical infrastructure; and translates quantitative modeling into trading opportunities and asset-optimization strategies. The role also requires understanding options, logistics, delivery, and UK regulatory requirements.
As an Associate in the team you will be responsible for pricing and managing power and gas derivative risk including linear and non-linear trades in both liquid and illiquid benchmarks across the European gas and power space.
Job Responsibilities
- Drive growth of the bank's customer franchise via design and delivery of innovative trade, risk management and optimization solutions for both an existing and future client base
- Demonstrate initiative and resourcefulness in terms of steering the growth of in-house proprietary fundamentals analysis and, with appropriate guidance and support, help build out further analytical infrastructure as per business requirements
- Conduct fundamentals analysis with current automation and analytical techniques to derive commercially relevant interpretative analysis
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- You bring demonstrable experience trading European power and gas benchmarks
- You have a solid understanding of power and gas fundamentals modelling and analysis
- You have a proven track record of translating fundamental analysis and quantitative modelling of derivatives space into trading opportunities and asset optimization strategies
- You demonstrate understanding of the dynamics of power and gas options
- You demonstrate competency in understanding the logistical/delivery aspects of short-term power and gas trading
- You have good business-building and communication skills in order to aid growth of the firm's customer franchise
- You are full of initiative and resourcefulness with a strong desire to problem-solve in a commercial context
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience trading other commodity asset classes, such as emissions or oil, is advantageous
- An academic background or professional experience applying the latest statistical or computational methods to complex problem sets
This role encompasses the performance of UK regulated activity. The successful candidate will therefore be subject to meeting UK regulatory requirements in the assessment of fitness, propriety, knowledge and competence (as assessed by the Firm) and (where appropriate) approval by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and/or the Prudential Regulation Authority to carry out such activities.
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