Position Description
The responsibilities of this role include, but not limited to:

•The Japanese Short-Term Power Trader is part of the trading team within JERAGM’s Japanese Power business. The person will play a key part in building-out a Japanese Power trading desk in close coordination with the Head of Japanese Power Trading.

•The person will be responsible for supporting the Japanese Power optimisation and trading activities as well as leading the development of JERAGM’s hedging and risk management service offerings to internal and external stakeholders.

•The role will involve taking responsibility for developing hedging and optimization trading strategies as well as monitoring Japanese power and other related commodity market conditions and trade execution across multiple global commodities exchanges, trade idea generation, trade booking in relevant systems, real time exposure confirmations, P&L analysis, daily risk exposure checks with middle office teams, and other related trading desk requirements.
• The person will coordinate closely with other members of the Japanese Power business and other JERAGM’s functions, in a collaborative and open manner.

■Key Role Responsibilities
This role reports to the Head of Japanese Power Trading.
Core responsibilities include:
•Contribute to develop and execute trading strategies set up by the desk from the Intra-Day up to the Month+1.
•Daily reconciliation of position and validation of PnL.
•Responsible of marking of Short-Term curve.
•Conduct pricing/execution/hedging strategies within risk limits to support the Japanese power optimisation and trading activities and facilitate hedging requirements from JERA and third parties.
•Leverage on internal and external hedging flow to generate P&L by trading across multiple energy assets/indices including but not limited to Japanese Power, European Gas, US Gas, Oil & LNG derivatives.
•Deploy trading strategies within the risk mandate to capture value from dislocations in fuel markets.
•Continuous daily analysis monitoring of supply demand fundamental, including in-depth weather analysis.
•Contribute to enhance analytics and innovate.
•Develop relationships with third parties active in the Asian financial markets to develop direct trading relationships and with a focus on developing within Asian hours liquidity in relevant financial products
•Manage physical and financial books to continuously re-optimise the physical positions, monitor/amend hedges (including currency exposure) and clear trades.
•Work closely with product control/Risks on curves input and ensure the accuracy of the daily P&L.
•Provide fit for purpose information for other management reports.
•Maintain a deep understanding of the prompt market and drivers to trade around the short-term curves.
•Daily gathering of market intel and promptly sharing across the Japanese Power team.
•Work closely with Origination and Portfolio team to support the portfolio optimisation and the development of a mid-term third party portfolio
•Function as a team-player and foster a collaborative and open working environment across the Japanese Power business and other functions of JERAGM.