Senior Energy Trader

**Base Location**: Perth, Edinburgh (with a requirement to be based in office 2-3 days per week, with flexibility to work from home / another SSE office the remainder of the week).

**Salary**: Competitive Salary depending on skills and experience + annual bonus + a range of other benefits to support your family, finances and wellbeing.

**Working Pattern**: Permanent Full Time | Flexible working options available

**What is the Role?**

We are looking to recruit a talented individual as a Senior Energy Trader with a genuine interest in developing their career with one of the UK's leading energy companies. As a Senior Energy Trader, your primary focus will be to help ensure our energy portfolio is economically managed and is competitive in the marketplace. To do this you will carry out market transactions to manage the risk and seek trading opportunities within the GB and EU energy markets. Additionally, you will carry out trading analysis to support decision making process, as well as develop and deliver new market-based trading strategies. This will include providing advice to senior management and other SSE business units on market conditions and make recommendations towards hedging strategies.

Some of your main accountabilities will include:

- Execute financial and physical transaction across energy products in the GB and EU energy markets. Execution of trading and hedging strategies, via brokers and screen-based exchanges within appropriate company approvals, based on experience and information gained in markets.
- Optimise hedging orders from SSE’s businesses to maximise profit & minimise losses through analysis of key market fundamentals and internal processes.
- Add value and contribute to Budget targets through creation and execution of trading strategies and assist in development of analytical models.
- Market and counterparty intelligence reporting, including supply chain analysis and report on competitor and customer commercial strategies.
- Provide desk cover across all products.

**What do I need?**

To be successful in this role we would love you to have:

- A successful track record in a trading environment related capacity along with and demonstrable knowledge of industry players, industry structure and commercial mechanisms and drivers.
- To be, preferably, educated to degree level, in a numerical discipline such as, but not limited to, Mathematics, Science, Engineering, Economics.
- Strong numeracy and communication skills with the ability to use MS Office suite of products. Programming knowledge, such as VBA, Databases, Python and other programming languages, would be beneficial.
- Energy and drive to succeed, with proven examples of overcoming challenges to deliver success, independently and as part of a team, in a highly pressurised environment.
- Diligent, responsible and reliable with a close attention to detail and fundamental respect for internal and external governance.

**About our Business**

SSE has big ambitions to be a leading energy company in a low carbon world. Following our commitment to invest £12.5 billion in low carbon projects over the next 5 years, our Energy Portfolio Management (EPM) business is the energy market’s heart of the SSE Group, and supports our ambitions to build a world that's more sustainable and inclusive for you, your family, the community you live in and for generations to come. We are proud to be playing a crucial role in the net zero transition, ensuring we have the energy supplies required to meet the needs of our customers; procuring the fuel required by the generation plants and selling the power output from our renewable and low-carbon thermal assets.

**Life at SSE**

If you're considering a career with us, you're probably wondering what's in it for you? From health and wellness to finances and family, we're proud of our benefits package which includes 34 days holiday (plus the option to buy additional days), enhanced maternity and paternity leave, discounted healthcare and a wide range of offers via our SSE Advantage scheme.

At SSE we're proud to celebrate difference. We all have different skills, experience and backgrounds and we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture where you can be yourself. We take pride in a job well done and share the belief that an inclusive culture is key to our success and vision for the future. Above all, safety is at the heart of everything we do at SSE and we live by the mantra 'if it's not safe, we don't do it'.

**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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