Market Operations Specialist

Do you aspire to be part of the future of energy? Do you get your energy from both day-to-day challenges and longer-term development? Do you enjoy getting things done? 

If you answer yes, this could be something for you. 

Helen was born over a century ago out of a need to provide safer and cleaner energy in a smoky city of Helsinki. Today, as one of the main utilities in Finland, we continue that journey towards a carbon-neutral energy system. We are focusing on green flexibility to make a sustainable impact both on national level and supporting Helsinki’s commitment in becoming carbon neutral in 2030.  

In order to reach our goals, we are now looking for a Market Operations Specialist to strengthen the future automated trading capabilities. This will utilise the flexibility potential of Helen’s portfolio including customers’ assets as well as ours, and enable transparency and continuous follow up on trading performance as well as development of dynamic trading strategies. 

Your responsibilities are: 

• Developing forecasting capabilities to support automation of physical trading to wholesale and reserve markets 
• Supervising and monitoring bidding operations in the different markets and looking after and reporting the trading performance 
• Enhancing our market strategies and expanding our front-office capabilities together with the team 
• Continuously developing processes in market operations which tie together front- and back-offices’ operations holistically with growing exposure to all physical markets 
• Supervise regulatory changes, such as market design and grid code in the Nordics which have direct impact on our business 

Location for the position is in Helsinki, Finland while Helen offers flexible remote working opportunities.  

The ideal profile for the role: 

• MSc or BSc level education of a suitable academic field 
• Experience in energy industry and expertise in flexibility, wholesale, and reserve markets and/or physical trading
• Efficient communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills 
• Great organization and project management skills 
• Fluency in English is a must, basics of Finnish are preferred 

Some questions in your mind? You can enquire the position with the hiring manager, Kristiina Siilin (040-6531316, firstname.lastname(a)helen.fi). The best times to contact her are 9.4. from 14:00 to 16:00 EET and 15.4. from 12:00 to 14:00 EET.  

Interested? Excellent. Please apply through our recruitment portal by April 21st with your CV, motivation letter, and salary expectation. We hope to hear from you soon as we will start the process during the application period.  

Let’s join our forces!