Intraday Power Trader / Analyst at Wind & Customer Optimisation Nordic

at  Vattenfall

OM TJÄNSTEN

Do you want to help us lead the transition into a fossil free future, and enable integration of more renewable power production into the European power system? Do you have a curious and analytical mind who likes programming and data analysis? Then we might have the perfect position for you!
We see a rapid growth both in our own wind portfolio and in the demand for smart energy services why we now need to strengthen our Nordic team in Wind- & Customer optimisation with a new talent.
Wind & Customer Optimisation Nordic is a performance oriented department responsible for optimisation of Vattenfall’s Nordic Wind- and Customer portfolio on physical power markets. Thus we have a key role for the realisation of Vattenfall’s strategy to lead the transition into a sustainable energy system by enabling further integration of renewable energy and new investments in fossil free power. The team is expected to be innovative, high performing and flexible – ready to cope with the rapidly changing dynamics of the European Power market.

DIN BAKGRUND

We are looking for a person with:

• Relevant University degree of quantitative/financial discipline (e.g. Engineering, IT, Econometrics, Mathematics, Physics or similar)
• Programming and data analysis skills (preferably in Python)
• Business sense and a “trader’s mindset”
• Flexibility and ability to keep many activities ongoing simultaneously
• Fluent in Swedish and good skills in English

THE ROLE AS INTRADAY POWER TRADER / ANALYST:

As a full-time member in the Intraday-team you work part time at the trading-desk in our Nordic dispatch center and part time with other responsibilities such as market analysis, developing trading strategies and systems/tools for quantitative and data-driven decision support in order to continuously improve our business. This position will include roughly 50% work at the Intraday desk (scheduled work, will include working early mornings, late evenings and some weekends) while the remaining time will be focused on analytical tasks supporting our experts in market analysis and development of algorithmic-trading.
This combined role provides an interesting and challenging job with varying tasks. Working at the intraday desk will give you a deep understanding about the fundamentals of the Nordic power market – the perfect introduction to our business. That knowledge will then be essential for your analysis- and business development tasks, where we expect you to be creative, take own initiatives and think outside of the box when developing new solutions and trading strategies. IT and data are integral parts of all our processes and in this role you will be introduced to data analysis, advanced forecasting tools and algo-trading.

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Act part-time (50%) as Intraday power trader at the Nordic dispatch center
• Support our experts in continuous development of Vattenfall’s Nordic intraday trading activities(market analysis, trading strategies, algos, forecasts etc.)
• Challenge established solutions and initiate new business improvements