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SalaryOverall Description of Duties
The post holder will sit within the Energy Trading Team, reporting into the Senior Trader, with the role providing analysis and conducting predominantly short-term trading, with exposure to long-term trading as well.
The successful candidate will contribute towards the high performance of the team by developing metrics for short-term trading and thereby using innovative tactics to optimise the portfolio via bilateral methods and platform exchanges. An exciting opportunity for someone looking to enter the field of the energy industry and utilise decision-making skills coupled with analytics.
A requirement to be highly numerical and analytical, with an affinity to make quick decisions in a fast-paced environment. We are looking for a candidate who wants the challenge of developing their own analytical models and have a genuine influence over a core part of the business day to day.
The Energy Trading department is a team which manages generation & demand forecasting of our wind turbines and customer demand, pricing our retail and business customers and trading our volume requirements, as well as commercialising smart grids. In addition, they manage the credit and risk and analysis of global commodities associated with trading in the markets. The team also engages with energy policy and regulation, company compliance and a range of large and small commercial projects.
The candidate should be highly competent in coding and confident in data management, analysis and automation. The person should be comfortable working within a fast paced, dynamic environment in which organising and prioritising workload will be an increasing and key challenge.
The successful candidate will be a company and team player, with a high level of organisational and communication skills. They will build and maintain quality relationships with the Trading Team and other internal departments.
Essential Skill Set Required
- A degree in a numerical discipline
- Sharp decision-making skills with evidence of logic behind decisions
- High level of numeracy
- Professional report writing skills
- Effective in multi-tasking
- Proficient in MS Excel and Coding
- Excellent organisational skills
- Able to cope in dynamic environment with rapid business growth
- Affinity to handle pressure
- Excellent verbal and communication skills
What's in it for you...
Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
Volunteering day
Hybrid working
Various company discounts (including gym, shops, days out and events)
Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available
As a valued member of the team you will be supporting the Group Environmental policy and its associated targets to make the Green Britain Group net carbon neutral by 2025
Flexibility statement
The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use it's people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make make their contribution in a changing environment.
Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity- the green kind.
Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain- by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.
We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too- we build windmills and sun parks in Britain. We call this 'bills in to mills'. In 2021, we started work on building two new solar parks, and now we're bringing geothermal energy to our customers' fuel mix, a first in the UK. We're also developing green gas mills which will generate 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of- grass.
We don't just focus on energy though- we built Electric Highways, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points, we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world, and, in partnership with RSPB, we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk.
Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.
