(Senior) Gas Trading Analyst

<h3>Company Description</h3><p><strong>Vattenfall</strong> is a European energy company with approximately 20 000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal we are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission. </p><p><strong>Business Area (BA) Markets</strong> maximises the value of Vattenfall’s portfolio by optimising and dispatching, hedging and sourcing for Vattenfall's assets and sales positions. We offer power purchase agreements to operators of wind or solar parks, optimise 3rd party batteries, and enter into origination deals within the B2B segment. We serve as Vattenfall’s single market access to energy commodity markets trading in electricity, emissions, fuels, freight, and renewable certificates. We are responsible for generating profits by taking positions within defined risk mandates and limits. We are active across Europe with more than 450 professionals working from Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, and The UK. </p><p>Within Markets the <strong>Business Unit (BU) Trading</strong> is the energy trading hub of the Vattenfall Group. BU Trading is responsible for all trading activities around Vattenfall's asset and customer flows to maximize value creation and improve sourcing costs. It provides all market access services for standard OTC and exchange-based energy commodities for the Vattenfall Group, which means managing all hedging flows, from generation assets or customers, by our market access function. Next to handling our flow business, BU Trading also has a proprietary mandate. </p><h3>Job Description</h3><p>Do you like to work in the dynamic environment of the trading floor? Are you already contributing to high quality analysis and the success of the trading function using your analytical capabilities and commercial comprehension? Then this job could be something for you.</p><p>For our office in Hamburg we are looking for a <strong>(Senior)</strong> <strong>Gas Trading Analyst </strong>in the Trading Analysis &amp; Algorithms department.</p><p>The Trading Analysis &amp; Algorithms department within the Business Unit Trading works closely with the trading desks and takes a leading role in providing market insights, (fundamental and quantitative) analysis, and ultimately commercial decision support across all commodity areas.</p><p><strong>Your main tasks and responsibilities as a (Senior) Gas Trading Analyst:</strong></p><ul><li>Conduct fundamental and quantitative analysis to support traders and portfolio managers, and play an active role in developing gas trading and sourcing strategies</li><li>Keep track of the latest gas and LNG market developments, identify key fundamental drivers and regime shifts, develop price views and sensitivity analyses, and provide related communication and advice to traders and portfolio managers through various communication channels</li><li>Further develop the fundamental and statistical markets modelling and interface with supporting functions on business-driven model development and policy analysis</li><li>Play an active role in further developing and automating routines, procedures, and applications for analysis-related information and data</li><li>Lead and mentor junior analysts and working students</li><li>Be part of the Trading Analysis &amp; Algorithms department and contribute to its analysis output as well as the commercial success of BU Trading.</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><p><strong>Our ideal (Senior) Gas Trading Analyst</strong> <strong>has the following qualifications and capabilities:</strong></p><ul><li>Strong academic background with a Bachelor’s degree or higher in, e.g., business, economics, engineering, mathematics or physics</li><li>3+ years’ experience in gas and LNG market analysis in a commercial or trading environment at market research companies, energy companies, banks, or hedge funds with a proven track record; additional experience in oil analysis advantageous</li><li>Additional experience with algorithmic trading strategies or in in pricing options and structured contracts advantageous</li><li>Good statistical, analytical, and programming skills (ideally Python)</li><li>Fluency in English (both written and spoken); German language skills advantageous but not required</li><li>Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate with various internal stakeholders and the willingness to share your knowledge</li><li>Result oriented, independent working method with high reliability and readiness to take on responsibility</li><li>Proactive team player with eagerness to learn.</li></ul><p><strong>Location  </strong><br/> Hamburg </p><h3>Additional Informat