Power Trader / Risk Analyst
LeoForce
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Job summary
LeoForce in Houston is seeking an Energy Trader to join its trading organization. The successful candidate will combine market knowledge with quantitative analysis and disciplined risk management to identify and execute profitable trading opportunities.
You will develop strategies across energy markets, analyze fundamentals, manage risk, and collaborate with analysts and operations to translate market views into commercial decisions.
Qualifications
- Experience in energy/commodities trading
- Strong knowledge of price formation and fundamentals
- Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving abilities
- Ability to translate market data into commercial decisions
- Understanding of trading risk and position management
- Ability to operate in a fast-moving commercial environment
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute trading strategies across energy markets
- Analyze supply, demand, commodity flows, pricing relationships and other fundamentals
- Identify physical and/or financial trading opportunities
- Manage trading positions and associated market risk
- Monitor market developments and adjust positioning as conditions change
- Work closely with analysts to develop actionable market views
- Collaborate with operations, risk, finance and other commercial functions
- Evaluate new products, markets and commercial opportunities
- Maintain disciplined risk management across trading activity
Skills
Job description
Location: Houston,TX, US
Experience: Mid Level
Salary: $150,000 - $250,000 per year
The company is seeking an Energy Trader to join its Houston trading organization. The successful candidate will combine strong commodity-market knowledge with commercial judgment, quantitative analysis and disciplined risk management to identify and execute profitable trading opportunities.
- Develop and execute trading strategies across relevant energy markets
- Analyze supply, demand, commodity flows, pricing relationships and other fundamental market drivers
- Identify physical and/or financial trading opportunities
- Manage trading positions and associated market risk
- Monitor market developments and adjust positioning as conditions change
- Work closely with analysts to develop actionable market views
- Collaborate with operations, risk, finance and other commercial functions
- Evaluate new products, markets and commercial opportunities
- Maintain disciplined risk management across trading activity
- Demonstrated experience in energy, commodities or closely related trading markets
- Strong understanding of commodity-market fundamentals and price formation
- Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving capability
- Experience analyzing market data and translating research into commercial decisions
- Understanding of trading risk and position management
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving commercial environment
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
A major global independent commodities trading organization is expanding its Houston trading platform and seeking an Energy Trader to join its commercial team.
The organization operates across global physical energy markets, combining trading with logistics, financing, risk management, market analysis and strategic infrastructure. Its business model is built around identifying geographic, product and time-based opportunities across complex commodity markets.
- Join a major global independent energy and commodities trading platform
- Operate from Houston, one of the organization's principal global trading offices
- Work within a business spanning physical energy, logistics, infrastructure and financial markets
- Apply fundamental market analysis directly to commercial trading decisions
- Collaborate with trading, analytics, risk, operations and commercial teams
- Gain exposure to sophisticated global commodity flows and market dynamics
- Join an organization continuing to expand its U.S. energy and power capabilities
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