Retail Trading Analyst - Houston, United States - EDF Trading Ltd.

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** Retail Trading Analyst**

**Job Category****:** Trading & Trading Support **Requisition Number****:** RETAI001782 Showing 1 location **Job Details**

**Description**

**Company Info**

EDF Trading North America, LLC is a major participant in wholesale energy markets, and our retail business delivers customized energy solutions for large commercial and industrial consumers, power generation and retail energy providers.

We operate in every market and provide coast to coast coverage of financial and physical products in power, natural gas and NGLs, environmental products and financial crude oil products. We provide our customers with products and services that deliver access to markets, optimize their energy portfolio, hedge risk and manage assets. Our Wholesale Business operates throughout the value chain in the North American wholesale power markets and we are one of the leading wholesale natural gas marketers. Additionally, we provide environmental, congestion management and value added derivative products. With extensive pipeline agreements, we can manage natural gas offtakes, deliveries, capacities and supply anywhere across the continent. For Our Retail Business we provide wholesale fuel supply and structured products for its extensive base of electricity and natural gas customers including gas-fired power plants, large scale commercial and industrial retail consumers and retail energy aggregators.

Our Retail Business is our customer-facing operation providing integrated energy management services to commercial and industrial, power generation, and retail supply customers. Taking into account a customers entire energy portfolio, solutions are structured to provide competitive market pricing and to optimize energy usage and generation assets. We offer a complete suite of services to energy-intensive retail customers, from energy supply and hedging to on-site generation management and demand response. And we provide wholesale market access and ISO interface services to a broad network of retail energy providers with footprints across the deregulated markets. For power generation customers, we provide energy management services that encompass fuel supply, scheduling, dispatch, market analysis and risk management all within a single contract. Focused on service, we created a digital integrated platform and customer interface that allows transparent views into energy portfolios and invoices, market prices, analytics and weather.

EDF Trading North America, LLC is part of the EDF Group, a global leader in low-carbon energies.

The successful candidate hired into this position will have excellent leadership presence and hands-on application implementation experience. They should have deep technical knowledge, both to drive how technology addresses business needs, as well as to drive the appropriate architectural technical implementations.

**Responsibilities:**

Support the retail supply traders to provide market access, price discovery and transaction execution in approved products for EDF Trading internal clients and external clients

Responsible for energy hedging and optimization analysis for EDFs portfolio of retail customers

Support and build reporting explaining retail risk exposures

Backtest trading strategies for the summer/winter and such as proxy hedging where tradable products are not available

Analyze exposures and capital at risk for load following energy and other tradable commodities

Explain forecasted load deviations and exposures in prompt and cash months

Book energy and non-energy trades consisting of a variety of standard and non-standard products which include shaped schedules, odd-lots deals, off-hub locations

Support the retail load forecasting process and further develop associated exposure reporting and stress testing to advance the needs of the retail supply traders

Understand and comply with all internal policies as well as those of CFTC, SEC, FERC, and any other regulatory body or exchange

**Requirements & Qualifications:**

Bachelor degree required in a quantitative field such as math, statistics, IT, quantitative finance or engineering

Minimum 2-3 years of experience in an analytical retail supply; load modeling experience preferred

Working knowledge of ISO markets, the electric power grid and marketplace

High level of proficiency in Excel VBA and SQL required

Knowledge of OpenLink Endur or other ETRM systems preferred

Analytical skills required for risk assessment

Strong individual contributor with consultative style and aptitude for collaboration and teamwork

Skilled at working across multi-disciplinary functions and departments

Proficient in collecting, querying, organizing and analyzing complex data, evaluating information and drawing logical conclusions

**Note: EDF is an EEO employer**

**We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for all positions without regard to race, color, age, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.**

**EDF participates in the E-Verify Employment Verification Program.**

**EDF is not currently accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at EDF via-email, the Internet or directly to hiring managers at EDF in any form without a valid written agreement in place for that specific position will be deemed the sole property of EDF. As a result, no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by EDF.**

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