Third Party Asset Trader (all genders)
You will be joining a team of 7 traders and 2 algo traders with high commitment and a strong trading skill-set that operates on a 7/7 day shift basis during working hours (and work closely with our analysts, originators, meteorologists, 24/7 intraday desk) in Olten, Switzerland. We manage a direct marketing virtual power portfolio, that consists of renewables assets, batteries and biogas units in Germany, France, Sweden, Finland and Italy.
Your accountabilities
- Trade a virtual power plant portfolio of wind/solar in DE, FR, FI, SE on a 7/7-day shift basis in Intraday and Day Ahead market (during office hours).
- Focus on German intraday market, develop intraday and day ahead proprietary trading strategies and manage the risk of the German direct marketing and PPA portfolio
- Participate in ancillary markets for our prequalified assets leveraging opportunities in frequency containment reserves (FCR), automatic frequency restoration reserves (aFRR), and manual frequency restoration reserves (mFRR).
- Participate in the conceptualization of algorithms in Germany and in all other intraday markets that we are active together with the team and our algo traders
- Daily Assessment of trading performance, analysis and back testing of executed strategies.
- Participate in elaboration of proper design and workflows around our existing automated services and our analysis tools.
- Prepare regular performance reports and provide insights into trading activities and market developments.
- Knowledge sharing with colleagues and 24/7 shift team
- Collaboration and communication with Internal stakeholders (originators, quant team, other support roles)
- Help us to further develop our future set up for becoming a leading renewables team in an algo trading environment on continuous intraday power markets
Your profile
- University bachelor or master’s degree in engineering, Economics, IT or similar
- Minimum 3 years trading Intraday experience in German DA, ID and ancillary markets, including the management and trading of a renewable assets’ portfolio. Any additional intraday market is a plus.
- Experience in battery management and knowledge of ancillary markets and their mechanisms
- Strong analytical skills with a strategic mindset
- Open minded, multi-tasking and used to working in a fast paced, high-pressure environment
- Strong Team-player and problem-solver
- Excellent commercial mind-set and very good communicator
- Good programming and IT skills (ideally Python)
- Proficient level of English and German.