Asset Operations & Trading Analyst

Asset Operations & Trading Analyst

Role: Asset Operations & Trading Analyst

Level: Graduate to early/mid-level hire

Location: Mayfair, London

Working pattern: Hybrid

Salary: £40,000 to £50,000

Type: Full-time

The business

This is an opportunity to join a UK-licensed non-domestic electricity and gas supplier operating across supply, generation and CHP optimisation. The business works at the intersection of physical energy assets, commercial trading and operational performance, using both real-world asset management and data-led optimisation to maximise value.

Asset Operations & Trading Analyst - The opportunity

The company is looking to hire an Asset Operations & Trading Analyst to support the day-to-day coordination and performance of its CHP portfolio. This person will sit between asset operations and trading, helping ensure sites deliver on heat and CO commitments while also improving trading outcomes across power and gas.

This is a cross-functional role with strong exposure to operations, commercial decision-making, analytics and process improvement. It would suit either a strong graduate with the right analytical mindset and interest in energy markets, or someone with early experience in operations, trading support, industrial systems, logistics or energy analytics.

What the role will involve

The successful candidate will play a central role in connecting what is happening operationally on-site with the commercial and trading decisions being made internally.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Acting as a key day-to-day contact between the business and CHP site operators
• Coordinating the delivery of heat and CO commitments across operational sites
• Monitoring constraints, outages and changing site requirements, and making sure these are reflected in dispatch and trading decisions
• Supporting the resolution of operational issues that affect performance or delivery
• Monitoring trading and dispatch outcomes across CHP assets, including electricity and gas positions
• Investigating missed value, underperformance and unexpected costs
• Building repeatable reporting, controls and monitoring processes to improve visibility and reduce commercial leakage
• Developing dashboards, KPI tracking and automated checks to improve operational and trading oversight
• Working with operational, market and optimisation data to support better decision-making
• Identifying data quality issues and helping improve the inputs used in trading and optimisation processes
• Working closely with optimisation and engineering teams to ensure real site constraints are reflected in commercial logic

Candidate profile

The business is open to hiring either a high-potential graduate or a junior analyst, depending on the strength of the individual.

They are likely to be looking for someone with:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability
• Confidence working with data, whether through Excel, SQL, Python, dashboards or similar tools
• A structured, organised and proactive approach
• Good stakeholder skills, with the ability to build trust across internal teams and external operators
• Commercial awareness and an interest in how operational performance impacts trading outcomes
• A genuine interest in energy markets, asset operations or optimisation problems

Nice to have

• 1 to 3 years of experience in an analyst role within energy, operations, trading, logistics or industrial environments
• Exposure to CHP assets, heat networks, industrial energy users or flexibility markets
• Familiarity with UK electricity and gas market structures
• Experience building dashboards, monitoring tools or operational reporting
• Experience improving processes, incident management or operational workflows

Why this role could appeal

This is a strong opportunity for someone who wants to work in a role with visible impact across both physical operations and commercial performance. The successful person will have the chance to improve how real energy assets are run and monitored, while building expertise across CHP, trading performance and operational analytics.

It is particularly attractive for someone who enjoys solving messy real-world problems, improving processes and working at the point where data, operations and commercial decisions meet.