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(Senior) Carbon Analyst | Trading Analyst

Vattenfall
Germanyfull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Oct 2025

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<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 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>Right in the heart of Vattenfall, at <strong>Business Area (BA) Markets</strong>, you will find an inspiring international environment, with a culture of care and personal growth, enabling you to be who you are, having fun, building strong relationships and learning every day. Find out what our colleagues think about our culture: <a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fyoutu.be%2F-9qGrDUCptA&amp;data=05%7C02%7Celiasmaximilian.erdmann%40vattenfall.de%7Cbf9e08872b8b4589876608ddb7e0d737%7Cf8be18a6f6484a47be7386d6c5c6604d%7C0%7C0%7C638868898486192534%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=pQBaNHUUK3yMzKIAW8vd15xCXrZO79NPad61mxUCQ94%3D&amp;reserved=0">https://youtu.be/-9qGrDUCptA</a></p><p>We employ around 500 professionals who are active across Europe with offices in Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to drive the energy transition together. Our role in Vattenfall is to maximize the value of the overall portfolio by optimizing and dispatching, hedging, and sourcing for Vattenfall's sales and generation volumes. We serve as Vattenfall’s single access to energy commodity markets and trade electricity, emissions, fuels, freight, and renewable certificates.  </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 market access services for the Vattenfall Group which means managing all hedging flows, from generation assets or customers, by Market Access. Next to handling our flow business, BU Trading also has a proprietary mandate. Our working environment is based on a collaborative approach, as we strongly believe that through teamwork, we can develop the most successful trading strategies.</p><h3>Job Description</h3><p>Do you like to work in the dynamic environment of the trading floor? Do you want to contribute 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 <strong>Hamburg</strong> we are looking for a</p><p><strong>(Senior) Carbon Analyst | Trading Analyst</strong></p><p>in the Trading Analysis &amp; Algorithms department.</p><p>The Trading Analysis &amp; 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.</p><p><strong>Your key responsibilities as a (Senior) Carbon Analyst </strong>| <strong>Trading Analyst:</strong></p><ul><li>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</li><li>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</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</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><li>Educate traders in relevant (EU ETS and UK ETS) emission market and policy topics.</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><p><strong>Our ideal (Senior) Carbon Analyst | Trading Analyst</strong> <strong>has the following qualifications and capabilities:</strong></p><ul><li>Strong academic background with a Master’s degree or higher

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