Senior Analyst, Structured Trading

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Senior Analyst, Structured Trading

AES Clean Energy Services, LLC

1201 Fannin Street, Suite 500, Houston, TX 77002

• Analyze ERCOT [Electric Reliability Council of Texas] real time and cash markets for weather risk, price risk, trading opportunities.
• Design and develop stack models to simulate generator dispatch behavior and merit order in ERCOT.
• Develop and execute trading strategies in ERCOT to achieve defined PnL [Profit and Loss] targets.
• Support term trading strategies to manage asset energy exposure in ERCOT.
• Build and maintain fundamental natural gas models to identify correlations and impacts on power markets.
• Evaluate capacity and resource adequacy markets across U.S. ISOs [Independent System Operators], working closely with trading, regulatory, and fundamentals teams.
• Analyze basis and congestion markets and design risk-mitigating strategies to manage portfolio exposure.
• Develop and execute strategies to participate in Congestion Revenue Rights (CRR) auctions for both hedging and proprietary trading purposes.
• Register AES legal entities to be market participants in de-regulated power and congestion markets.
• Monitor and manage collateral exposure for trading activity.
• Develop commercial risk modeling including historic and parametric Value at Risk (VaR) models to benchmark risk valuations.
• Mark forward curves for valuation of energy, basis, and capacity positions.
• Work with Pricing to value merchant exposures on M&A [Mergers and Acquisitions] and development assets in ERCOT and MISO [Midcontinent Independent System Operator] territories.
• Deliver model improvements and automation to shorten turnaround times necessary to meet aggressive business growth targets.
• Contributes towards contract negotiation for complex deal structures.
• Work with ETRM [Energy Trading and Risk Management] team to ensure adequate booking and representation of signed contracts.
• Work with Risk Management team to follow internal processes and guidelines for model validation and risk quantification.
• Develop an understanding of commercial impacts affecting AES CE business, grow their own skills and progress along the career path.
• Own analyses and recommendations used in trading, hedging, and investment decisions, including during periods of market stress.
• Train and develop junior members of the team.

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent degree in Engineering, Economics, Finance or related quantitative field and 5 years of experience with commercial analysis for the energy industry.
• Experience…