Nordic Power Analyst | Trading Analyst

Company Description

Vattenfall is a European energy company with approximately 20.000 employees. For more than 100 years we have electrified industries, supplied energy to people’s homes and modernized our way of living through innovation and cooperation. We are looking for talented individuals who, in addition to their passion for their own role, also have strong team spirit and want to contribute to supporting a meaningful corporate mission.  

Right in the heart of Vattenfall, at Business Area (BA) Markets, you will find an inspiring international environment, with a culture of care and personal growth, enabling you to be who you are, having fun, building strong relationships and learning every day. Find out what our colleagues think about our culture: https://youtu.be/-9qGrDUCptA

We employ around 500 professionals who are active across Europe with offices in Sweden, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to drive the energy transition together. Our role in Vattenfall is to maximize the value of the overall portfolio by optimizing and dispatching, hedging, and sourcing for Vattenfall's sales and generation volumes. We serve as Vattenfall’s single access to energy commodity markets and trade electricity, emissions, fuels, freight, and renewable certificates.  

Within Markets the Business Unit (BU) Trading is the energy trading hub of the Vattenfall Group. BU Trading is responsible for all trading activities around Vattenfall´s asset and customer flows to maximize value creation and improve sourcing costs. It provides market access services for the Vattenfall Group which means managing all hedging flows, from generation assets or customers, by Market Access. Next to handling our flow business, BU Trading also has a proprietary mandate. Our working environment is based on a collaborative approach, as we strongly believe that through teamwork, we can develop the most successful trading strategies.

Job Description

Do you like to work in the dynamic environment of the trading floor? Do you want to contribute to high quality analysis and the success of the trading function using your analytical capabilities and commer­cial comprehension? Then this job could be something for you.

For our office in Stockholm we are looking for a Nordic Power Analyst | Trading Analyst (m/f/d) in the Trading Analysis department.

The Trading Analysis department within the Business Unit (BU) Trading works closely with the trading desks and takes the leading role in providing market insights, (fundamental and quan­titative) analysis, and ultimately commercial decision support across all commodity areas. 

Your main tasks and responsibilities as a Nordic Power Analyst | Trading Analyst:

• Conduct commercially relevant fundamental and quantitative analysis to support traders, and play an active role in developing trading strategies for the Nordic power markets across tenors
• Keep track of the latest market developments, identify key fundamental drivers and regime shifts, develop price views and sensitivity analyses, and provide related communication and advice to traders through various communication channels
• Further develop the fundamental and statistical markets modelling and interface with other trading analysts and supporting functions on business-driven model development and policy analysis
• Play an active role in further developing and automating routines, procedures, and applications for analysis related information and data
• Lead and mentor junior analysts and working students
• Be part of the Trading Analysis department and contribute to its analysis output as well as the commercial success of BU Trading.

Qualifications

Our ideal Nordic Power Analyst | Trading Analyst has the following qualifications and capabilities:

• Strong academic background with a Master’s degree or higher in, e.g., business, economics, engineering, mathematics, physics or other relevant quantitative subject
• 2+ years’ experience in analysis for Nordic power markets (or adjacent power markets) in a com­mercial or trading environment at market research companies, energy companies, trading houses, banks, or hedge funds with a proven track record
• Experience with fundamental and statistical models for power markets, and ability to steer business-driven model development and policy analysis in the supporting functions
• Strong statistical, analytical, and programming skills (esp. Python)
• Fluency in English and ideally Swedish (or Norwegian alternatively) – both written and spoken
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate with various internal stakeholders and the willingness to share your knowledge
• Result oriented, independent working method with high reliability, self-motivation, and readiness to take on responsibility
• Proactive team player with strong eagerness to learn.

Additional Information

Our Offer 

This is an excellent opportunity for ambitious and talented individuals who want to progress their career within a challenging and international work environment, and the possibility to work with some of the best people in the field. You will be working in interdisciplinary teams and you can always count on support from committed colleagues. We offer attractive employment conditions and opportunities for personal and professional development.

Location  
Solna, Sweden

For more information about the recruitment process you are welcome to contact our recruiter Jil Ungethüm: +49 40 790221378. 

The trade union representatives in Sweden can be reached via Vattenfall´s switchboard +46 8 739 50 00. Sven-Gunnar Gremlin, Akademikerna and Anders Bohlin, Unionen.

We welcome your application in English no later than September 14th, 2026. We kindly request that you do not send applications by any means other than via our website and that you refrain from submitting a cover letter with your application. You apply quickly and easily by answering screening questions and attaching your CV.
 
At Vattenfall we are convinced that diversity contributes to build a more profitable and attractive company and we strive to be a good role model regarding diversity. Vattenfall works actively for all employees to have the same opportunities and rights regardless of gender, ethnicity, age, transgender identity or expression, religion or other belief, disability or sexual orientation. Click here for further information. 

The security of Vattenfall and its employees is essential. For that reason, a pre-employment screening will be part of your recruitment process. The screening is based on the role you will fulfill within Vattenfall. 

Since Vattenfall is a part of the Swedish critical infrastructure, many of our services are security classed. If this position is security classed the final candidates might be subjected to a security vetting process, according to the Swedish legislation. 

We look forward to receiving your application!