Power Trader

Formative; Singapore; On-site; SGD 227,000 - 408,000; Full time

Job summary

Formative in Australia seeks an experienced screen-trading professional for the East Coast power desk. You will own execution, risk-taking and full-curve trading on NEM, with autonomy from day one.

Based in Singapore or Sydney, you will operate with data-driven signals and live fundamentals, manage your own capital within risk limits, and travel across the APAC region as required. This is fast-moving, performance-driven work with top fund-style compensation.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of speculative/proprietary trading experience, ideally in Australian power.
• Have managed capital and positions with real risk limits and own P&L.
• Deep NEM knowledge; data-rich, fundamentals-heavy market.
• Autonomous, calm under pressure, team player in a small group.
• Willing to travel regularly within the Asia-Pacific region.

Responsibilities

• Trade East Coast Australian electricity (NEM) across the full curve.
• Run your own speculative positions with full autonomy.
• Execute across ASX futures and OTC with multiple brokers.
• Hedge renewables and storage portfolio on futures.
• Interpret and act on proprietary analytics and live data.
• Communicate with the head of desk with minimal supervision.

Skills

Speculative trading

P&L ownership

NEM knowledge

Tech-driven

Autonomous

APAC travel

Job description

About the Company

Our client is a rapidly growing international energy trading firm, institutionally backed, with an established and expanding Asia-Pacific presence. The business was built in the last decade as a technology-first trading operation with no legacy systems and no legacy thinking. In Australia, the firm combines proprietary trading with a growing renewables portfolio of long-term PPAs and utility-scale storage, with further assets in the pipeline.

About the Role

This is a dedicated screen-trading seat on the Australian power desk created deliberately. The desk has separated origination and portfolio work from execution, and this hire owns execution and risk-taking. We ideally want someone to be based either in Singapore or Sydney.

Responsibilities

• Trade East Coast Australian electricity (NEM) across the full curve like spot, prompt quarters, and calendar years several years forward. Most funds cap trading at 6-18 months out; full-curve access is a deliberate differentiator of this seat.
• Run your own speculative/proprietary positions with full autonomy. You put trades on without asking permission, and you own the outcomes.
• Execute across ASX futures and OTC, dealing with multiple brokers simultaneously in a fast market.
• Hedge the firm's renewables and storage portfolio on futures, working alongside the origination team.
• Interpret and act on the firm's proprietary analytics such as model-driven price signals, live fundamentals data, combining them with your own market view.
• Work in constant, high-bandwidth communication with the head of desk, without supervision or babysitting.

This is a fund-style seat, not a utility seat: fast-moving, high-performance, results-driven, with compensation to match.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of speculative/proprietary trading experience, ideally in Australian power.
• You have managed your own capital and positions set against real risk limits, with your own P&L.
• Deep NEM knowledge: a bespoke, data-rich, fundamentals-heavy market.
• Earlier-career spot desk experience at a utility is a useful foundation, but this role is not suitable for candidates whose experience is limited to utility hedging or portfolio management.
• Tech-forward mindset: you want model-driven signals and live data feeds, and you know how to trade with them rather than against them. Spreadsheets-and-gut-feel traders will not enjoy this environment.
• Temperament that is autonomous, confident, calm under sustained pressure, and a genuine team player in a small, tight group.
• Willing to travel regularly within the Asia-Pacific region (approximately every 2-3 months).

Compensation and what stands out?

You will be in a ready-made seat: the data infrastructure, analytics team, risk framework and portfolio are already built. You trade from day one. Genuine autonomy and a full-curve mandate few desks in this market can offer. Compensation structured to match top fund rates: competitive base plus a meaningful share of a profitability-based bonus pool, with substantial upside in strong years. A modern, flat, motivated environment with leadership that trades, decisions are made fast.