(Senior) Carbon Analyst - Trading Analyst

(Senior) Carbon Analyst - Trading Analyst

Vattenfall

Hamburg, Germany

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.

Your key responsibilities as a (Senior) Carbon Analyst | Trading Analyst:

• Conduct commercially relevant fundamental and quantitative analysis to support traders, and play an active role in developing (EU ETS and UK ETS) emissions market trading strategies;
• Keep track of the latest market and policy developments, identify key fundamental drivers and regime shifts (e.g., emissions balance, fuel switching, politics), 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;
• Play an active role in further developing and automating routines, procedures, and applications for analysis-related information and data;
• Lead and mentor junior analysts;
• 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 (EU ETS and UK ETS) emission market and policy topics.

Qualifications

Our ideal (Senior) Carbon Analyst | Trading 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;
• 2+ years’ experience in (EU ETS and UK ETS) emission market analysis in a commercial or trading environment at market research companies, energy companies, banks, or hedge funds with a proven track record;
• Experience with fundamental and quantitative models for the (EU ETS and UK ETS) emission market, and ability to steer business-driven model development and policy analysis in the respective supporting functions;
• Strong own network in the market, esp. around (EU ETS and UK ETS) emission policy and analysis topics;
• Additional experience with the analysis of voluntary carbon markets clearly advantageous;
• Additional experience with algorithmic trading strategies advantageous;
• Strong statistical, analytical, and programming skills (ideally Python);
• Fluency in English (both written and spoken); additional languages 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 eagerness to learn.