(Junior) Environmental Products Analyst

at  Vattenfall

Company Description
Vattenfall is one of Europe’s largest producers and retailers of electricity and heat. Our main markets are Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the UK. The Vattenfall Group has approximately 21 000 employees. We have been electrifying industries, powering homes, and transforming life through innovation for more than 100 years. We now want to make fossil free living possible within one generation and we are driving the transition to a sustainable energy system.
Job Description
Do you like to work in the dynamic environment of the trading floor? Do you want to contribute to high quality analysis and the success of the trading function using your analytical capabilities and commercial comprehension? Then this job could be something for you.
For our office in Stockholm we are looking for a (Junior) Environmental Products Analyst in the Trading Analysis & Algorithms department.
The Trading Analysis & Algorithms department within the Business Unit (BU) Trading works closely with the trading desks and takes the leading role in providing market insights, (fundamental and quantitative) analysis, and ultimately commercial decision support across all commodity areas. As part of the department, the Algorithmic Trading desk works closely with the other trading desks and the Algo Infrastructure team and takes the leading role in algorithmic trading and automated trade execution across BU Trading from the intraday to term horizon.

OUR IDEAL (JUNIOR) ENVIRONMENTAL PRODUCTS ANALYST HAS THE FOLLOWING QUALIFICATIONS AND CAPABILITIES:

• Strong academic background with a Master’s degree or higher in, e.g., business, economics, engineering, mathematics, physics or other relevant quantitative subject
• Knowledge and (first) experience in the market analysis of environmental products in a commercial or trading environment at market research companies, energy companies, banks, or hedge funds
• Experience with fundamental and quantitative models for environmental product markets and ability to steer business-driven model development and policy analysis in the supporting functions
• Additional experience with analysis of other energy commodities, e.g., EU ETS or UK ETS, advantageous
• Strong statistical, analytical, and programming skills (ideally Python)
• Fluency in English (both written and spoken); additional Swedish (or Norwegian alternatively) language skills clearly advantageous
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate with various internal stakeholders and the willingness to share your knowledge
• Result oriented, independent working method with high reliability and readiness to take on responsibility
• Proactive team player with strong eagerness to learn.
  Additional Information

• Conduct commercially relevant fundamental and quantitative analysis to support traders and play an active role in developing trading strategies for different environmental products (including esp. Guarantees of Origin, CER, VER, CDR, and other offsets)
• Keep track of the latest market and policy developments, identify key fundamental drivers and regime shifts (e.g., supply and demand balance, consumer behaviours, policies), develop price views and sensitivity analyses, and provide related communication and advice to traders through various communication channels
• Further develop the fundamental and statistical markets modelling and interface with supporting functions on business-driven model development and policy analysis
• Run and further develop the position management and optimization tools for environmental products to support traders’ decision making and to extract further value from the trading portfolio
• Play an active role in further developing and automating routines, procedures, and applications for analysis or portfolio position related information and data.
• Be part of the Trading Analysis & Algorithms department and contribute to its analysis output as well as the commercial success of BU Trading
• Educate traders in relevant environment products and policy topics.
  Qualifications