This function reports to the COO Trading and will be key in realizing the transformation and future ambitions of Alpiq’s Trading Division. The COO team is a dynamic and growing group of professionals located over the 3 trading locations of Alpiq. The team drives strategic business change, trade support operations, new product development and is instrumental in solving operational, commercial, and strategic issues facing the business. In this role you will work closely with front office, analysts, middle office, risk management and IT.

Main Responsibilities:

• Engaging with front office, analysts, middle office, risk, IT and other functions to deliver continuous improvement and new features.
• Identify, understand, and translate existing gaps and dependencies into clear functional business requirements with the goal of improving data management, trading systems and trading architecture, analytics, and business processes for front office.
• Laying out the functional requirements for new business opportunities and drive implementation together with IT in the relevant trading systems.
• Project Management
• Becoming the functional knowledge expert on our core systems

Your Profile:

• Minimum 5 years of proven work experience in the energy trading domain, in either a trading house with physical power or trading/utility/energy consulting firm. Ideally in the role of a Business Analyst.
• In-depth knowledge of front-to-back end-to-end processes involved in trading financial and physical power and gas in the European energy market.
• Project management experience in projects involving stakeholders from different business areas.
• Experience with electronic trading platforms and exchange/trading venue connectivity, expertise in algorithmic trading is advantageous
• Master’s degree and a strong, all-round knowledge of IT, ETRM, and software integration/development.
• Highly collaborative: able to build relationships with traders, quants, IT, …
• Outstanding written communication skills and ability to respond rapidly, and analytically, to situations as they arise.
• Key required skills: analytic and structured thinker, result oriented with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Additional relevant skills: international mindset, determination, resilience, and team spirit.
• Languages: full proficiency in English, any other language is an advantage

Your benefits

• Generous annual leave incl. bridge days and free working days between Christmas and New Year
• Opportunity of 5 days flexible leave
• Very good social benefits and excellent pension fund contributions, optional additional savings contribution (tax free)
• Financial contribution to daycare center costs and voluntary family allowance
• Free barista coffee and fruit
• Various flexible work models
• Financial and/or time support for further education
• Complete benefits overview

What is also important to us:

Diversity and inclusion
At Alpiq, we believe in the power of diverse teams. We pay great attention to keeping our recruiting process free of any discriminatory bias and we actively use diversity as a selection criteria, when personal and functional requirements are met. We always strive to create an inclusive company culture, and an example of this is, that we try to offer part-time solutions for candidates who match our requirements. Is that important to you and are you really keen on a role, that is only posted as full time? If yes, then please reach out to us and we will check if we can find a solution that works for both sides.

Data protection
At Alpiq, data privacy is an important topic. Please therefore take note of the corresponding Privacy Notice that appears in the online application form and explains in detail the purpose for which we process your personal data. It is of great concern to us to inform you as transparently as possible and process your data only in a fair manner.

Application process
Even though we try to consider candidate needs individually, we are not always able to avoid standard communication, due to the high number of applications. Therefore, we kindly ask for your understanding. For more information about our recruiting process and some useful tips and tricks on how to apply, please follow this link.

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Federica Maraschio Contact: federica.maraschio@alpiq.com