The Trade Control team is part of Group Risk Management – it has the function of back office for the energy trading floor. The main purpose of the team is to ensure Vattenfall’s trading contracts are accurately captured within the trading system – thereby providing a sound basis for the calculation of risk exposures and Profit & Loss. As a team member of the Trade Control department you will work together quite intensively with our front office and various other supporting departments like legal, credit risk, markets risk, IT etc. It is an excellent starting base for a career in the energy trading environment.
Your main tasks and responsibilities will be the following
- Trade validation: ensure that the trades are correctly entered into the trading system
- Reconcile our positions to exchanges and clearing banks
- Manage the confirmation process with our counterparties
- Where mismatches occur liaise with Front Office and counterparties to ensure they are quickly and efficiently resolved
- Fulfil other tasks connected with the functional responsibility
- Improve and develop our processes
- Operating the daily transfer of green and emission certificates
This is a temporary position that runs from 1st of September 2025 to 30th of April 2027.
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 now want to make fossil-free living possible within one generation. To be able to reach this ambitious goal 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.
Qualifications
As a successful Trade Control Analyst, you are a strong team player and a very reliable in delivering on agreed targets. Further, you are flexible at any time with a positive attitude. Besides that, you convince with the following skills and competencies:
- University degree in Business Administration, Economics or equivalent education
- Work experience in the field of back office or similar function
- High competence in business administration
- Basic competence/knowledge in corporate finance and accounting
- Good knowledge of usual IT Trading systems
- Fluent in English (written & spoken)
- Good communication and analytical skills
- Stress resistant and able to work under time-pressure
- Accurate, and a high sense of responsibility
Additional Information
Location for this position is Solna, Sweden.
For more information about the position, contact the recruiting manager, Lena Hovland, lena.hovland@vattenfall.com. For questions about the recruitment process, please contact the recruiter, Amanda Pehrson, amanda.pehrson@vattenfall.com.
Union representatives are Rolf Ohlsson, rolf.olsson@vattenfall.com (Akademikerna), Christer Gustafsson, christer.gustafsson2@vattenfall.com (Ledarna), Juha Siipilehto, juha.siipilehto@vattenfall.com (SEKO) and Anders Bohlin, anders.bohlin@vattenfall.com (Unionen). You can reach all of them via Vattenfall's switchboard, 08 739 50 00.
Please submit your application no later than 11th of July, 2025. We do not accept a personal letter in the application. You apply quickly and easily by answering selection questions and attaching your CV. We only accept applications through our website.
Please note that we will review applications continuously throughout the recruitment process.
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