Power Trader

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.

Next steps

Initial screening is handled by Formative, followed by interviews with the desk and regional leadership. The client's identity is disclosed to shortlisted candidates under confidentiality and this process will move quick as we want a successful candidate to start ASAP, no later than early 2027.

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