Shift Trader

Description

• Utilize automated trading systems where feasible to respond to market changes instantly
• Ensure compliance with all relevant regulations and contractual customer obligations, including REMIT, the Grid Code and Shell policies
• Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.
• Lead the development of tools and analytics to enhance trading efficiency and decision-making, including around the renewable portfolio, while contributing to the upskilling of the team to ensure best practices are embedded across the desk
• Coordinate with other desks, functions and system operators to align strategies and manage the portfolio’s exposure, particularly from renewables assets
• Drive the trading capability of the desk, identifying and executing opportunities to maximize P&L through informed risk-taking around the asset portfolio and outright in the market
• Actively trade interconnector capacities in the short-term markets, intra-day, and balancing markets

Requirements

• Track record of managing risk and delivering profit
• Team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent decision-making abilities, capable of performing under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field.
• A self-starter, with the ability and confidence to take ownership of issues, managing to resolution
• Experience trading on exchanges, including qualification to trade UK power on EPEX and managing assets in the UK Balancing Mechanism.
• In-depth knowledge of the GB and European energy markets, understanding key market drivers (e.g. weather, generation stacks, etc.) and trading regulations.
• Strong quantitative skills, with proficiency in sophisticated trading and analytical platforms.

Benefits

• Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and
• Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.
• Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non-birthing parents.
• Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.
• Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performancerelated salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.
• Be flexible, working as part of a 24/7 shift team in London

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance