Renewable energy trading desks live on data that has to be right the first time. A reporting error that reaches a regulator is not the kind of mistake you get to quietly fix later, and that reality shapes almost everything about this role.
We are looking for a Senior Renewable Energy Trading Analyst to join a fully remote team, open to candidates anywhere in the world. There is no office tied to this position and no city requirement attached to the listing. The environment and climate sector has grown fast enough that a lot of the reporting infrastructure around it is still catching up, which means this role carries more judgment and less pure box-checking than the word compliance might suggest. Standards and reporting expectations differ by market and by regulator, and part of the job is knowing which framework applies to which piece of data before you start building a report around it.
Trading volumes themselves can swing sharply with weather and grid demand, which means the underlying numbers this role reports on are never quite as stable as a typical finance dataset.
This is a senior role, so we are looking for someone with 42 months of experience already under their belt in renewable energy trading or a closely adjacent analytical field. A bachelor's degree in environmental science, sustainability, or a related area is expected as the baseline. People who do well here usually came up through either an energy markets team or a sustainability reporting function, and they tend to double-check a figure even when nobody asked them to.
If your background includes GRI or ESG frameworks specifically, that experience maps closely to what this role needs on day one. Analysts moving over from a pure trading desk without a sustainability reporting background can still succeed here, but expect a steeper first few months while the regulatory side becomes second nature. On the other side, someone with strong ESG reporting chops but limited trading-desk exposure may need extra ramp-up time on the market mechanics before the two halves of the job click together. Either way, the first few months typically involve shadowing the existing reporting calendar closely before taking full ownership of a reporting cycle independently.
Some of this work is recurring and predictable, tied to a reporting calendar you will get familiar with quickly. Other parts show up without warning, like a data anomaly that needs explaining before a report goes out the door. A single mismatched figure between an internal record and a submitted report can trigger a lengthy back-and-forth with a regulator, so catching it early matters more than almost anything else on the job. Picture a quarter where trading volume in one region spikes unexpectedly.
Before that gets written into a regulatory filing, someone needs to confirm it is a genuine market shift and not a data pipeline error, cross-check it against a second source, and document the explanation clearly enough that it holds up if a regulator asks a follow-up question months later.
Strong data analysis ability and comfort with regulatory reporting are must-haves for this role:
A lot of the modeling work still happens in Excel before it moves into a formal report, so comfort there matters more than people expect going in. Familiarity with a specific reporting platform is welcome but not required, since most of that can be learned once the underlying data logic is understood. Comfort reading a regulatory bulletin or a standards update and translating it into a concrete change to a reporting template is a skill that develops on the job, though prior exposure to any formal compliance reporting shortens that learning curve considerably. Nice-to-have extras include exposure to carbon accounting or emissions-tracking work, since those areas increasingly overlap with renewable trading disclosures.
None of these nice-to-haves are dealbreakers on their own, but a candidate with two or three of them alongside the core requirements will generally ramp up noticeably faster than one without.
The team runs on a fairly standard working schedule with some flexibility built in around reporting deadlines, when hours can get heavier for a few days at a stretch. Coordination happens through video calls for planning and shared documents for the ongoing reporting work itself. Remoteroles has listed a number of Environment and Climate roles recently, and this one in particular tends to appeal to analysts who want their day-to-day work to connect to something with real regulatory weight behind it. Outside of deadline periods, the pace is manageable and mostly self-directed.
Most collaboration tools here are the standard set, a shared document workspace, a chat channel for quick questions, and video for anything that needs real back-and-forth, so nothing about the setup requires learning a niche piece of software.
Benefits for this full-time position include:
Additional perks can vary depending on the specific employer you end up working with. At 96,000 dollars a year, the compensation reflects the seniority and regulatory responsibility built into the role, and it sits comfortably above what a junior sustainability analyst without trading exposure would typically see. A few years in this kind of role often lead toward a senior compliance or ESG reporting leadership position, particularly as more regulators expand what companies are required to disclose.
If this sounds like a fit, send in your resume along with a short note on your experience with renewable energy trading data or regulatory reporting more broadly. We review applications on a rolling basis, and candidates who move forward will typically hear back within a couple of weeks. A short screening call usually comes first, followed by a deeper conversation about a specific reporting scenario from your past work.