Sr. Gas Trader

The role

The Sr Natural Gas Trader will trade energy commodities, options, heat rates, and energy products. This person will optimize the Gas portfolio to capture trading opportunities and monitor risk.

What you will do

• Work and optimize the Gas portfolio to capture trading opportunities and monitor risk.
• Transact physical gas, transport, storage, and financial basis.
• Identify trading opportunities from books, Sales-Trading flow, or market movements.
• Quote competitive prices daily to the sales-trading team.
• Work with Mid-office for daily reconciliation and Risk for VAR monitoring.
• Stay updated on market activity through engagement with traders, brokers, and platforms.
• Trade natural gas on a daily, monthly, and term basis.
• Utilize fundamental market analysis to manage transportation and storage hedges.
• Develop quantitative and fundamental view of relevant gas markets.
• Optimize the value of the US portfolio in long, mid, and short-term markets.

Required qualifications

• Minimum of 5+ years of progressively responsible experience in natural gas trading.
• Expertise in managing term physical and financial positions related to transportation and storage.
• Bachelor's in Business, Finance, Economics or any hard science quantitative.
• Prior Gas Trading experience with expertise in fundamental analysis, risk management, and market pricing.
• Experience pricing structured, non-standard contracts in energy markets.
• Strong knowledge of gas fundamentals and market rules/structure.
• Solid P&L experience from a trading background.
• Experience managing long-term contracts with a variety of customers and trading partners.
• Experience in deregulated electricity markets.
• Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills.
• Ability to assess mathematical derivative pricing models.
• Strong analytical skills.

Nice to have

• Wholesale experience is a plus.
• Advanced degree a plus.

Before you apply

• Eligible to work in the USA for any employer without sponsorship.
• External recruitment firms will not be accepted; do not contact internal members to discuss the position or solicit candidates.

About the company

174 Power Global is an affiliate of Hanwha Group that designs, builds and manages solar power plant solutions. Chariot Energy is a retail energy provider based in Houston, Texas.