Power Trader

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Job Summary:

The successful candidate will be responsible for a variety of portfolio management and trading initiatives for the West Power Desk. Specifically, the position will be responsible for assisting in the management of retail portfolios; the pricing, analysis, and trading of power positions; assisting sales and pricing teams with modeling and market information, and pricing and modelling of structured deals with Origination. The West Power Team is looking for a highly motivated individual to join the team and support commercial operations in the CAISO and the WECC.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities:

• Assist with the management of short-term and long-term physical and financial wholesale power positions as well as related tasks (marking curves, scalars…etc)

• Deploy risk to generate P&L while adhering to internal risk limits

• Assist with CAISO Congestion Revenue Right (CRR) allocation and auction processes

• Develop comprehensive models to analyze commodity markets, price new business opportunities and advise customers

• Identify opportunities for new business with wholesale counterparties including Community Choice Aggregations, utilities, as well as other wholesale energy companies

• Assist Regulatory and Compliance Teams as required to ensure a prompt and comprehensive response to regulatory developments as well as timely compliance to existing regulations

• Provide research as needed to identify possible strategic business opportunities

• Support NRG's retail customer business as required

Minimum Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree, preferably in mathematics, engineering, or other quantitative field from an accredited college or university

• An understanding of physical and financial power markets

• Strong spreadsheet, programming, and presentation skills

• Strong analytical skills with strong IT and/or data management skills

• Statistical proficiency

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proficient coder of SQL, and an object-oriented programming language (Ruby, Python, VBA)
• Previous experience in power trading, ideally in the WECC, CAISO and/or SPP
• Previous experience in scheduling, reserving transmission, and NERC e-tagging physical power transactions

Additional Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to work with customers and people at all levels of the organization

• Strong team player with ability to take initiative and work independently

• Flexibility and ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines

• Effective verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and adhere to deadlines while maintaining attention to detail

• Must be a creative thinker with strong investigative and analytical skills

Working Conditions:

• Hybrid office environment, 1-2 days working from a home office

• Evening and weekend work, while not the norm, may be required as business needs dictate

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing. EOE AA M/F/Protected Veteran Status/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.

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Nearest Major Market: Houston