Short Term Power Market Analyst F/H

Join EDF Trading, a leading energy company, as a Short Term Power Market Analyst. In this role, you will provide data analytics and risk analysis on the short-term power market, support price forecasts and trading strategies, and ensure compliance with regulatory requirements. You will also be responsible for the entire life cycle of applications and models, from research and design to development and maintenance. The position is based in London and requires fluency in French and English, a master's degree with a strong statistics or mathematics component, and advanced skills in data science, Python, web development, and source code management.

• Provide data analytics and risk analysis on short-term power market to support the trading desk.
• Follow the Day-Ahead and Week-Ahead optimisation shifts, communicate time-critical information to traders.
• Responsible for the whole life cycle of an application or a model, from research/design to development/implementation.

**Experience required**

Ability to work under pressure, timeliness, accuracy and the ability to understand the wider commercial implications of the work are critical to be successful in this position.

The analyst will use his/her expertise to support the short-term power traders while at the same time ensuring an effective operational relationship with the asset managers at EDF. He/she will be expected to take the initiative to continuously improve existing processes, tools and models with the aim of improving the overall management of the EDF portfolio and wholesale market positions.

It is as well necessary to be proactive in the research of market modelling improvements to succeed in this position.

**Technical requirements**

Fluent in French & English

• Educated to master’s degree level, preferably with a high statistics or mathematics component
• Experience of building/developing stochastic or deterministic optimisation procedures/models

Advanced skills in

• Data science
• Python (Api, Data management, statistical modelling)
• Web development (javascript)
• Source code management (Git)

Full understanding of the ways of working of the power market

• Power asset management and optimisation
• Power market coupling algorithm

**Person specification**

As well as having strong analytical skills, attention to detail and enthusiasm the candidate needs to have a commercial approach to his/her duties. Similarly, a flexible approach to problem solving and the ability to work under pressure are essential.

Applicants for the role will also be expected to have strong communications skills with the confidence to work effectively with both power traders and asset managers.