Alastair Hope
Redditch,Worcestershire
Summary
Dedicated and enthusiastic Energy Trader/Analyst with 7 years of experience. Demonstrated history of meeting building price views to beat financial targets whilst managing risk. Thrives under pressure and adapts to challenges with ingenuity and resilience. Strong team building a mentoring skills with success in both corporate and sporting environments.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work history
Senior Trading Analyst
Eon Energy
Coventry, Warwickshire
07.2023 - Current
- Formed and held Forwards Morning Meeting, highlighting risks from weather, gas margins, LNG view and spreads, Conti-storage forecasting, and coal-switching channels among other drivers
- Coordinated and executed/traded corporate flow volume, beating onscreen prices for customers whilst optimising
- Maintained in-depth knowledge of LNG industry and modelled JKM/NBP price spreads and destination profitability for US and Qatari LNG to help form price view for Lead Traders
- Uncovered trends and patterns and reported to senior decision-makers in both fundamental and technical analysis
- Started to use Python in conjunction with Reuters Eikon RDMS to speed up morning prep and data visualisation
- Contributed to beating Forwards target across gas and power desks by 5x
- Provided market commentary to key stakeholders in residential hedging and corporate business
Lead portfolio manager
Eon Energy
Coventry, Warwickshire
08.2018 - 06.2023
- Advised, designed and executed hedging strategies for large corporate flex customers (50MW+)
- Assess customers risk appetite holding risk workshop to understand the companies structure and needs, talking through different types of strategy and performance measures
- Designed and modelled out morning report to customer, and was lead contributor to provide key analysis and insight in to wholesale gas and power markets
- Achieved over 58% in outlook performance for 4 years running for gas, power, and EUAs
- Created and provided proxy-hedging service for customers with CHPs being built, reducing price risk for both customer and EON UK.
- All customers protected through recent gas crisis, coming in well under competitors rates and the EBRS
- Led team of 5 portfolio managers holding position reviews, and mentoring PMs through different soft and technical skills
- Helped sales managers with strategic customers to ...
Education
MSc - Sport Psychology
Staffordshire University
Stoke-on-Trent 09/2013 - 05/2016
Bachelor of Science - Sport Psychology
Staffordshire University
Stoke-on-Trent 09/2005 - 05/2009
Skills
- Leadership
- Communication skills
- Knowledge of Energy Markets and Trading/Hedging
- Expert Excel proficiency and model building
- Expert in Thomson Reuters Eikon application
- Proficient in technical analysis
- Strong knowledge of energy fundamentals and analysis
- Beginner Python proficiency
- Market trends analysis
- Hedging and positioning (inc proxy hedging)
- Strong understanding in weather and meteorology
- Strong commercial and numerical acumen
Timeline
Senior Trading Analyst
Eon Energy
07.2023 - Current
Lead portfolio manager
Eon Energy
08.2018 - 06.2023
MSc - Sport Psychology
Staffordshire University
09/2013 - 05/2016
Bachelor of Science - Sport Psychology
Staffordshire University
09/2005 - 05/2009
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