Market Performance Analyst, Energy Trading
Akaysha EnergyCremorne, Victoria
Full Time
Posted November 28, 2024
Energy Storage
Remote
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Job Description
The role involves analyzing and optimizing energy trading strategies within Akaysha Energy's trading team, focusing on performance evaluation and risk assessment for battery energy storage systems in the National Electricity Market (NEM). Candidates will collaborate with market analysts and traders to enhance trading outcomes and contribute to the company's renewable energy projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Daily review of Akaysha’s energy trading performance
- Evaluation and optimisation of energy trading strategies
- Development and preparation of internal performance reports on trading performance
- Development of trading risk assessment methodologies and frameworks
- Management of data sources relevant to trading insight and analysis
Requirements
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills
- Understanding of energy markets, trading strategies, and trading risk management principles
- Ability to talk the language of wholesale trading in the NEM
- Familiarity with and capability to develop and extend data analysis tools ideally Python-based
- Ability to define and distil analysis, modelling and simulation conducted by other analysts and teams
- Experience with BESS bidding in the NEM (highly advantageous)
- Experience with spot trading using autobidders (highly advantageous)
- Experience in the operations team of an electricity generation asset (highly advantageous)
- NEM spot derivatives trading or NEM market analysis experience (highly advantageous)
- Experience developing risk models and analysing risk metrics for electricity trading (highly advantageous)
- Experience wrangling data sources into reporting platforms (highly advantageous)
- Detailed knowledge of NEM dispatch processes, network constraints, price elasticity (highly advantageous)
- Experience modelling energy derivatives (highly advantageous)
- Must be an Australian citizen, hold permanent residency status or have existing AU working rights
Benefits & Perks
above-market performance bonuses
flexible working arrangements
training and development opportunities
hybrid working style
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