Do you have experience building quantitative models? Are you skilled in mathematics and statistics? And are you curious about energy markets? Then grab this opportunity to become the new quantitative analyst for our Intraday Analysis team and get the unique opportunity to join a leading analysis team in short-term power trading!

Here’s what the job entails

In the role, your primary function is to support the development and optimisation of strategies and machine learning models for the Flexible Asset Management team. This means that you will gain valuable experience with trading and optimisation of flexible assets.

Concretely, your areas of responsibility will include the following:

• build and maintain quantitative models
• understand the energy markets and the drivers behind them, including regulations, market developments, RES outbuild and data screening
• test hypotheses and build trading strategies for the Flexible Asset Management team
• contribute to the continuous development of the intraday infrastructure
• perform ad hoc analysis tasks

Meet the team

As our new quantitative analyst, you will join our Intraday Analysis team, supporting our intraday trading teams by developing complex trading strategies and quantitative models. We are a team of 14 specialists in short-term power trading with backgrounds in economics, mathematics and engineering.

We are a motivated team of energy experts, approaching challenges with an analytical mindset and a curious outlook. You will join a dedicated team that always seeks to improve our strategies and processes to become even better at what we do.

"You will join a dedicated analysis team in short-term power trading and gain first-hand experience with the energy transformation from renewables to flexible assets such as batteries and combined heat and power plants (CHPs)" - Peter Lumbye Thomsen, Head of Intraday Analysis.

But enough about us… over to you!

As you will be working with a lot of different data, we imagine that you take a curious approach to data analysis – it is key that you are motivated to understand the data and how we can utilise it. Also, as we operate in an ever-changing market, we are looking for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment and has the ability to adapt their actions and way of thinking to market conditions.

Furthermore, we expect that you:

• have a relevant educational background within Mathematics, Engineering, Physics, Economics, Finance or similar
• have programming experience, e.g. with SQL, R or Python
• are curious about the energy markets – and have a deep interest in building and optimising machine learning models
• are proficient in English – both written and verbal

Please note that it is not a requirement to have prior knowledge of the energy industry to enter this role.

We’ll take good care of you

At Danske Commodities, we take great care of our people. Joining us means you’ll get a lot of great perks – including social events, cultural experiences, tasty food and benefits to better your health, your life and your future.

Here are some of the benefits we offer our employees:

• Flexible working hours
  including the option to work from home up to two days per week
• Vast development opportunities
  with the help of your own individual development plan, access to our DC University with 50+ courses as well as remote courses through Harvard Learning
• Global career prospects
  as part of the Equinor group with +20,000 colleagues across the world
• 10% paid pension
  as well as a beneficial health care and insurance package
• Great parental leave conditions
  including 26 weeks of paid maternity leave and 16 weeks of paid paternity leave as well as the opportunity to join the network Inspired Beyond Babies
• Unlimited paid children’s sick days
  no limit on paid absence days in relation to child sickness
• Extra days off
  five, to be exact, as well as a Yay Day (an additional day off dedicated to ‘me time’) every year – adding to the standard five weeks off each year
• Senior days
  if you’re over 55 years old
• Bonus scheme
• Share savings
  meaning you have the opportunity to participate in our parent company Equinor’s attractive share savings programme
• Paid at home internet and equipment
  including a mobile phone with paid subscription and IT equipment for when working from home
• 100+ yearly social and professional events
  including DC Sports and DC Talks events, gatherings in our book club, bicycle club, student network, wine club, CS:GO team and more
• Free Spotify Premium subscription
• Various free tickets
  to family-friendly and cultural attractions
• Discounts
  at hotels, restaurants, sports clubs and more
• Organic food
  including a light breakfast, lunch buffet and snacks throughout the day
• An office in the heart of Aarhus
  right next to the central train station

Recruitment process and relocation

You can read more about our recruitment process here. Please note that if you are an international candidate, we will reimburse travel expenses in connection with potential interviews and support you with the relocation process.

What we’re about

We're a tech-driven energy trading company present in 40 markets across five continents. Our +500 people are driven by a need to constantly better things. If you are too, we could very well be the right place for you. You'll join a collective of thinkers and doers. Aspiring chefs, runners, parents, beekeepers, gamers – the list goes on. We're highly specialised experts within our fields. But it’s actually our diversity of ideas we’re most proud of, which is why we continuously work on strengthening an inclusive culture where diverse teams thrive.

Deadline

31.01.2024. We will be screening candidates on an ongoing basis.

Get in touch

Peter Lumbye Thomsen
Head of Intraday Analysis
+45 2782 0399
pth@danskecommodities.com