Senior trader Work, Jobs in Liverpool, Msy (with Salaries)

Senior Trader
Government Commercial Agency —Liverpool
- £48,027 - £53,310 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Excel
- Presentation skills
- IT
- Annual leave
- Work from home
2d
Senior Accountant
The Accountancy Partnership —Birkenhead
- £27,820 - £48,915 a year
- Full-time
- QuickBooks
- Organisational skills
- Financial services
- Referral programme
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Semi-Senior Accountant
Forshaws Chartered Accountants —Southport
- £27,000 - £30,000 a year
- Full-time
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Computer literacy
Quick apply
Senior Warehouse Operative
Crest Medical —Warrington
- Up to £28,500 a year
- Full-time
- Supervising experience
- Continuous improvement
- Warehouse experience
Quick apply
10d
Part Time Trader
Sporting Group —Wigan
- Part-time

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Senior Trader

Government Commercial Agency -
Liverpool

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Job details

Permanent | Full-time
£48,027 - £53,310 a year
2 days ago

Benefits

Annual leave
Company pension
Work from home

Qualifications

Microsoft Excel
Presentation skills
IT
Communication skills

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Reference number

469764

Salary

£48,027 - £53,310

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

Job grade

Senior Executive Officer

Band 4

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Commercial

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time

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Location

Liverpool

About the job

Job summary

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Call to action

Would you like to use your energy trading and wider energy industry knowledge for public good? Then become part of the expert team within the Government Commercial Agency (GCA) managing over £1bn p.a. commodity exposure and providing energy industry expertise for the central government and wider public sector.

Job Summary

You will work as one of 4 senior traders reporting to the Trading Manager. The team works collaboratively to hedge energy demand for aggregated portfolios and individual public sector organisations, delivering value for money within risk parameters. The team oversees the full operational lifecycle of trading products and provides customer communications to ensure seamless portfolio delivery.

As subject matter expert, you will provide strategic technical guidance to the wider energy team, playing a pivotal role in evolving areas such as corporate Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) and direct wire offerings, to meet the shifting needs of our public sector customers.

Job description

Key Accountabilities:

Effectively and proactively execute electricity and gas hedging to deliver value to public sector customers, whilst adhering to relevant risk strategies
Provide expert level understanding of UK power and gas markets, their underlying fundamental driver and policy frameworks
Undertake or oversee all back office and forecasting tasks needed to support all aspects of customer price-setting activities
Draft accurate, informative and timely customer reports
Support, and represent if required, at strategic meetings with key stakeholders
Providing expertise to the wider energy team on key GCA development areas, such as direct wire, corporate PPAs, flexibility

Person specification

Essential Criteria (to be assessed at application stage):

Trading / Hedging Execution: Proven experience in the proactive execution of gas and electricity hedging, with a demonstrable track record of adhering to formal risk parameters
Market Analysis: Proven ability to successfully utilize fundamental and technical analysis to inform trading decisions
Stakeholder Influence: Strong communication skills with a proven ability to translate complex market movements into clear, easy to read reports for a wide range of stakeholders
IT capability and quantitative aptitude: Proven experience of Microsoft Excel for energy modeling, including the use of advanced formulae, pivot tables, and data visualization to analyze market trends; High standard of general IT literacy. Demonstrable experience in managing and interpreting large, complex datasets to support price-setting or forecasting
Specialist Energy Structures: demonstrate knowledge and / or experience of non-standard assets, for example direct wire, corporate PPAs, flexibility / DSR

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Communicating and Influencing
Making Effective Decisions
Seeing the Big Picture
Managing a Quality Service

Technical skills

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Understanding of UK energy policy landscape
IT capability and quantitative aptitude

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £48,027, Government Commercial Agency contributes £13,913 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides .

Valuing our people:

Competitive salary
Generous pension scheme
A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus
Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location
Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6)
Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holidays

Want to make a difference? Find out more about the rewarding work that we do in our candidate pack.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

We want to make our recruitment process accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you, please contact [email protected]

Working flexibly, delivering outcomes

GCA operates a smarter working model that balances flexibility with collaboration. Successful candidates are expected to spend at least 26 days per quarter (approximately 2 days per week, pro-rata) at their contracted office, another GCA site, or off-site for meetings. For the remainder of the time, you may work from home or another suitable location that meets business needs.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles , and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

Selection Process

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, which the Civil Service may use to fill future suitably similar vacancies across government for candidates who are considered appointable following interview. Should you be placed on a reserve list and want to be removed please contact [email protected].

Please note that as part of this recruitment process, if you are unsuccessful at the interview stage but are close to the benchmark score you may be considered for and offered a role at a lower pay band within the same job family.

#GCAIND

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check .

See our vetting charter .

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

UK nationals
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles .

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

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This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : Recruitment team
Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

Email : [email protected]

Further information

Our recruitment processes are underpinned by the principle of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners Recruitment Principles details of which can be found at http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact [email protected] in the first instance.
If you remain unsatisfied with the response you receive you can then contact the Civil Service Commission at [email protected]

https://www.gca.gov.uk/careers-with-gca

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