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Key Responsibilities
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Benefits
Nodal Exchange, the largest power futures exchange in North America, is a derivatives exchange providing price, credit and liquidity risk management to participants. Nodal Exchange is a leader in innovation, having introduced the world’s largest sets of environmental and electric power futures and options contracts. All transactions on Nodal Exchange are cleared through its wholly owned subsidiary, Nodal Clear, using its award-winning portfolio-margining methodology. As leaders in innovation, Nodal Exchange and Nodal Clear have built in-house most of the trading and clearing platforms that fuel our business. Nodal Exchange is part of the EEX Group which is in turn part of the Deutsche Börse Group.
We are now looking for talented, innovative individuals to join our team in Tyson’s Corner, VA (DC Metro area). This position is expected to work regular full-time business hours onsite (hybrid) in the Tysons Corner office.
Key Responsibilities
Primary responsibilities include:
- Analyze multi-million row datasets, produce reports to communicate with senior management, and create tools to automate workflows
- Conduct research and synthesize information from a variety of sources, including the internal data, model outputs, and market/industry data and research reports, to monitor the competitive landscape and support the development of new environmental contracts and services
- Develop and assess risk management approaches for customer portfolios, including pricing and risk management models for existing and new environmental derivative contracts
- Manage inquiries from both internal (senior management and the Board) and external (customers and regulators) sources regarding the exchange operations
The ideal candidate will possess both a significant attention to detail, as well as an ability to synthesize broader patterns and business logic into recommendations to support the business development and risk management of the Exchange and the clearing house. Our business is data-oriented and strong analytical and quantitative skills are a must. Strong knowledge in Environmental Markets (such as carbon emissions, renewable energy certificates, and renewable fuels markets, etc.) is a must. Previous experience in financial risk management is a plus.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in quantitative finance, economics, statistics, applied mathematics, engineering or comparable area
- 5+ years of experience working in quantitative analytical roles, ideally in financial service markets
- 2+ years of experience in the Environmental Markets
- Outstanding quantitative skills
- Strong knowledge in Environmental Markets
- Proficient in scripting language, such as Python or R (at least one is required)
- Strong problem-solving ability
- Strong communications skills
- Detail orientation
Preferred:
- Experience with database queries and code-based analytics
- Experience in financial risk management
Benefits
What We Offer Our Employees:
- A collaborative workplace culture where we value your contributions and ideas
- A comprehensive benefits plan which includes, but not limited to immediate access to low-cost health insurance plans (highly company subsidized with an employee cost as low as $10/month), a retirement savings plan with a competitive company match, and PTO that includes vacation, holidays, floating holidays, and unlimited sick leave, and company-paid life and disability insurance
- Contemporary workspaces designed to inspire innovative thinking in a fun, relaxed environment
- Catered weekly breakfast and lunch
- Free full-service gym access onsite
- Workplace flexibility - we value work/life balance, designed to fit your team, and your and your family’s needs
Nodal Exchange, LLC does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, parental status, marital status, citizenship, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military status, veteran status, physical or mental health, hairstyle historically associated with race, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law with respect to recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, or in any other terms and conditions of employment. Nodal Exchange is an E-verify participant
