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Olten - 100% | Permanent
You will be joining a team of 6 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 and biogas units in Germany, France, Sweden, Finland and Italy.
Your responsibilities
- 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 French intraday market, develop intraday and day ahead proprietary trading strategies and manage the risk of the French sales and renewables portfolio
- Steer internally the setup of trading UK Interconnectors, develop intraday trading strategies and capitalize on market opportunities for UK, Belgium and Netherlands
- Participate in the development, design and operation of our new automated/ algorithmic trading strategies in the new built Algo Framework together with the team and our algo trader
- Daily Assessment of trading performance, analysis and back testing of executed strategies and of our automated and algo-based trading strategies.
- Participate in elaboration of proper design and workflows around our existing automated services and our analysis tools
- Knowledge sharing with colleagues and 24/7 shift team
- Collaboration and communication with Internal stakeholders (originators, sales, IT)
- 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
- Experience on French intraday power markets, including the management and trading of a renewable assets portfolio.
- Experience with UK interconnectors; experience with Belgium and Netherlands Intraday experience a big plus
- Strong analytical skills with a strategic mindset
- Open minded, multi-tasking and used to working under pressure
- 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, French a big plus
Your benefits
Competitive salary package
Market-oriented salary
Training and development
Diverse opportunities for career growth
Flexible work models
Various flexible work models
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