Real-Time Trader, West Power

Real-Time Trader, West Power

Dynasty Power actively participates in electricity and natural gas markets across North America. The West Desk trades physical and financial products in CAISO, PNW, DSW, Mountain West, SPP, and AESO. The successful candidate will be responsible for short-term trading, ie. real-time and next-day.

This position is on-site in the Calgary office.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the operation of Dynasty’s 24h real-time desk, which involves 12h rotational shiftwork.

• Build and maintain relationships with bilateral counterparties.

• Perform fundamental analysis on daily/hourly basis on ISOs and bilat regions.

• Monitor and execute physical and financial trades.

• Analyze ISO congestions and execute convergence/virtual trading strategies.

• Work with Mid and Back-Office to ensure accurate trade capture and settlement.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of experience in power trading and/or transmission operations.

• Proven track record of proprietary power trading P&L.

• Experienced in CAISO and/or SPP physical power transactions.

• Experienced in bilateral regions such as PNW, DSW, and/or Mountain West.

• Understanding of CAISO and SPP congestions, and other financial products.

• Understanding of market fundamentals such as load, renewables, generation, transmission, and gas.

• Curiosity and desire to understand the power market from first-principles approach.

Skills

• Strong analytical, quantitative, and modelling skills

• Effective communicator

• Programming skills is required (Python, VBA, SQL)

• Data Science skills are desirable

Dynasty Power offers a dynamic work environment, full benefits package, relocation benefits, competitive base, and competitive incentive plan in the industry.