Trading Risk Manager

Summary

Join Sympower, a rapidly growing company in the flexible asset trading and optimization platform sector in Europe, and spearhead the design, implementation, and operation of market-risk controls, limits, analytics, and reporting. You will leverage your expertise in short-term power markets and asset-backed trading to ensure every trade decision is data-driven. Collaborate closely with traders, quants, and engineers to enhance risk controls and build the company's long-term risk management strategy. This role reports to the Finance department with a matrix report to the Head of Trading and Energy Markets. Sympower offers a competitive compensation package including paid time off, parental leave, wellness support, remote work budget, and professional development opportunities. The company is committed to creating an inclusive and values-based culture.

Requirements

• Fluent written & spoken English required, and additional European languages a plus
• Deep knowledge of European short-term power markets – DA, ID continuous, FCR, aFRR/mFRR, BRP imbalance settlement
• Minimum 5 years’ demonstrated hands‑on experience in a front line Risk-Manager function in power trading, optimisation or trading‑risk, ideally within an asset‑backed utility, aggregator, or power‑tech scale‑up
• Demonstrated success building or scaling risk frameworks, tools and processes in fast‑moving trading environments
• Quantitative rigour – solid grounding in probability, statistics and optimisation; familiar with VaR/CVaR, Monte‑Carlo, stress testing and scenario design
• Fluency with trading algorithms – you can read Python, understand optimisation parameters and talk on equal footing with quants, Traders and ML engineers (expert‑level coding not required)
• Regulatory fluency – working knowledge of REMIT, MiFID II Article 17 & RTS 6, EMIR trade reporting and Nordic and European TSO bidding & compliance rules
• Stakeholder skills – able to challenge traders constructively, brief executives crisply and translate quant speak into business language

Responsibilities

• Risk governance - Enhance Sympower’s risk policy, appetite and escalation paths; set up relevant interfaces with key stakeholders
• Focus on short-term power market specifics - PnL / Earnings-at-Risk (EaR) / VAR / stress analytics – build and own real‑time risk and EOD reports for risk positions
• Algo & model validation – independently test forecasting and optimisation models; define guard‑rails (max bid volumes, price collars, kill‑switch triggers) before code goes live
• Limit framework & monitoring – implement position, VaR, stop‑loss and liquidity limits
• Imbalance & BRP risk – model imbalance‑cost distributions and intra‑settlement monitoring to avoid TSO tolerance breaches and reserve non‑delivery penalties
• Regulatory controls – ensure REMIT inside‑information disclosure, algo‑trading controls and ACER reporting are watertight
• Data & tooling – specify risk‑data schema, select/extend an ETRM or specify requirements for in-house toolkit; provide key input to our system architects, data team and engineers to ensure robust integrations with exchanges, TSOs, and third‑parties data providers from a risk perspective
• Post‑trade performance analytics – decompose PnL into forecast error, execution slippage and asset availability; feed insights back to the trading and data‑science / Machine learning teams
• Leadership & scale‑up – mentor future Analysts, represent Risk in meetings with internal and external stakeholders, and foster a risk‑aware culture across the relevant teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating battery degradation curves or warranties into dispatch & risk models
• Prior exposure to Nordic BRP regimes to accelerate our geographic roll‑out
• Degree in a quantitative field such as Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or Financial Engineering; professional risk certifications (e.g. FRM, CQF) are an advantage

Benefits

• 30 Days Paid Holiday Leave
• 1 Day Paid Wellness Leave
• 1 Day Paid Birthday Leave
• Paid Maternity and Partner Leave
• Pawternity Leave
• Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
• Remote Office Budget
• Internet Allowance
• Development Plan & Budget
• Stock Appreciation Rights
• 2 Days Paid Volunteer Leave