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Senior Intraday Trader

EDF Trading is active in the electricity, natural gas, LPG, oil and environmental products markets.

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Senior Intraday Trader

Senior Intraday Trader
Location: Paris
Department: Power Trading

Description

Job title: Senior Intraday Trader

Reports to: Intraday Manager

Location: Paris

Company information

EDF Trading is a leader in the international wholesale energy markets.  The company manages a portfolio of assets which give it the ability to source, supply, transport, store, blend and convert physical commodities around the world.  These capabilities enable EDF Trading to deliver essential asset optimisation services, risk management and wholesale market access to the EDF Group and its third party customers, helping them to realise the value inherent in their asset portfolios.

EDF Trading is active in the electricity, natural gas, LPG, oil and environmental products markets.  It is also active in the LNG and coal and freight markets via JERA Global Markets* (“JERAGM*”).  EDF Trading is one of the largest wholesale market traders in Europe for power and gas. In North America, EDF is one of the leading marketers of gas and power, one of the main providers of generation services for power generation companies and a leading energy retailer for large commercial and industrial customers. 

*JERAGM is a joint venture between JERA Co., Inc. (66.67% through JERA Trading International Pte. Ltd. equity) and EDF Trading (33.33% equity).  JERAGM operates one of the largest seaborne energy portfolios in the world.

EDF Trading is a 100% owned subsidiary of EDF SA., one of the world’s biggest electricity generators and a leader in low-carbon production.

EDF Trading has around 800 employees with key offices in London, Paris, Singapore and Houston.

For more information, please visit www.edftrading.com

Department

Paris office – Intraday Trading Team

Position purpose
  • Maximise the value of the EDF portfolio across all European intraday markets.
  • Undertake detailed fundamental analysis of European intraday markets and further develop tools and processes used by the team.
  • Develop the scope of the activity, its scale and profitability

Main responsibilities

 

This list is not exhaustive and may include other tasks assigned by the manager.

  • Consistent with assigned trading responsibilities, conduct intraday electricity trading activities
  • Maintain real-time understanding of EDFT’s intraday physical electricity position on the European electricity markets.
  • Understand fundamental price drivers in the European intraday electricity markets.
  • Adhere to EDFT trading procedures including trade logistics systems.
  • Communicate and coordinate intraday trading activities with rest of intraday team and other teams.
  • Identify trading opportunities on the electricity markets, devise new strategies, backtest them before implementation and execute trades as authorized
  • Work closely with our data scientists and analysts in order to integrate into our strategies the relevant data needed to build trading models
  • Participate to the automation of the activity
  • Any other duties as directed by manager.

 

Experience required
  • Understand the European electrical transmission system and the interconnections between the various European grids.
  • Strong understanding of EDF system optimisation.
  • Understand power plant operating principles.
  • Fluent in English. A good working level in any other European languages (French, German, Dutch, Spanish and Italian) also appreciated

Technical requirements
  • Developing skills: VBA, Python, Java, C# (a plus but not mandatory)

Person specification
  • Disciplined, decisive and able to work under pressure.
  • Must possess an attention to details
  • Analytical, highly motivated with ability to work on own initiative.
  • Good communicator and team player.
  • Position requires flexibility in work hours and days due to market requirements

Hours of work:

Shift rota including nights

 

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