Energy Trader

4 weeks ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom SSE Full time

**About the Role**

**Base Location**: Edinburgh preferred | We're proud to offer a Flexible First approach to work, and this role is no exception. We will, however need your base 'home' location to be one of our SSE offices or depots around the UK and Ireland.

**Salary**: £Competitive depending on skills and experience + disturbance allowance + + performance-related bonus + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.

**Working Pattern**: Seven days a week | Permanent | Full Time or Part Time | Flexible First options available

The Energy Management Centre (EMC), supports our business by managing real time energy balances and market exposures from SSE's assets and customers. As part of the EMC team, you will trade short term electricity from the day ahead stage until delivery, 365 days a year.

This is a new, high-profile role, central to the success of SSE and will be at the forefront of the green energy transition supporting the growth of the whole business. The Wind/IC Trader is central to the real time optimisation and despatch of the SSE Wind energy portfolio, looking to minimise risks and maximise value.

This exciting new role will develop your energy market experience looking to actively trade short duration energy products across multiple European markets to support the wider expansion of SSE. As part of a dynamic team you will help build the short term trading strategies while looking for market opportunities to manage the renewable portfolio exposures.

Some of your other key accountabilities will include;
- Developing trading strategies to protect and optimise fluctuations in the SSE wind portfolio utilising cross border price opportunities.
- Managing the day ahead and intraday trading on French, Belgium and Netherlands markets and the EU interconnectors, with expectation of further expansion across more territories.
- Leading on short-term cross border trading strategies to maximise value for SSE, which includes running positions in each of the trading jurisdictions that SSE participates.
- Managing the day ahead and intraday interconnector nominations and capacity requirements.
- Having a primary focus on helping to deliver budgets, executing complex strategies while managing the electricity positions and looking to exploit market spreads to capture value.
- Report progress of key KPI’s to the SSE business units with full transparency and accuracy.
- This could be a position that might appeal to an experienced European Trading Energy Analyst, looking to make the transition into Energy Trading.

**What do I need?**

To be successful in this role, we would love you to have;
- Experience of working in a commercial environment.
- Preferably be able to demonstrate knowledge of at least one of the following energy markets; GB, French, German, Belgian and Dutch.
- Must have excellent data analysis and problem solving skills, accompanied by a strong teamworking attitude.
- Good attention to detail and strong numerical aptitude with a familiarity of common ETRM software packages.
- Flexibility and drive to succeed in a fast-paced operations environment with the ability to make valuable decisions under time restrictions and operational pressures.

**About our Business**

Energy Portfolio Management (EPM) is the energy markets heart of the SSE Group, securing value for SSE's asset portfolios in wholesale energy markets as we move towards our vision of being a leading energy company in a net zero world. We play a critical role as the short-term energy market asset optimiser, and a long-term energy market adviser, for all SSE's Business Units (across SSE's Wind, Hydro, Low Carbon Thermal, Distributed Energy and Customer portfolios). This role for EPM enables SSE to focus its investment in energy markets capabilities (including Trading, Risk Management, Energy Economics and Advanced Analytics) in one centre of excellence, with these enhanced capabilities supporting value creation and decision making across the SSE Group.

**What’s in it for you?**

An excellent package with 34 days holiday entitlement, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, discounted healthcare, salary sacrifice car leasing and much more, view our full benefits package on our careers site.

**Next Steps**

Before commencing employment with SSE, you'll be required to fully complete our pre-employment screening process consisting of a basic criminal records and credit check.

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