Job Description

European Gas Analyst & Strategist

Company Description:

Caravela Energy Partners is a specialist hedge fund focused on gas, power, and emissions markets, with offices in Connecticut (USA) and Zug (Switzerland). The firm employs a fundamental, data-driven approach to energy markets.

Location:

Zug, Switzerland

Team:

European Power and Gas Trading

Reports to:

European Power and Gas Trader

Caravela Energy Partners is seeking a highly analytical European Gas Analyst / Strategist to support its European power and gas trading activities. The role focuses on developing and maintaining a robust fundamental view of European gas markets, translating complex data into actionable insights for trading and risk-taking.

You will work closely with the trading team to quantify key market drivers ranging from pipeline flows and LNG dynamics to storage, weather, and regulatory developments and contribute directly to investment decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Fundamental Modeling: Maintain and extend comprehensive supply-demand balances, tracking pipeline flows, model storage trajectories, analyze LNG dynamics to identify market imbalances.
• Price Forecasting: Estimate the price impact of market events, various weather scenarios, different supply shocks and other fundamental drivers for specific gas hubs and spreads of multiple gas markets.
• Strategic Insight: Translate complex data into specific trading strategies for the desk, highlighting risks and opportunities.
• Infrastructure Monitoring: Track outages, maintenance schedules, and new infrastructure developments to assess immediate market impacts.
• Cross-Commodity Analysis: Work closely with power and carbon analysts to analyze gas-to-power switching dynamics and interactions with EU ETS pricing.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience analyzing European natural gas fundamentals (or broader global gas markets).
• Strong academic background in a quantitative discipline (e.g., engineering, mathematics, statistics, finance, or computer science).
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Solid grounding in fundamental commodity analysis.
• Strong communication skills and ability to engage effectively with traders and analysts.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, commercial environment with a high standard of analytical rigor.
• Fluency in English.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonus structure.
• Opportunity to influence high-stakes decisions in the center of the global energy transition.
• Professional development in advanced quantitative modeling and fundamental analysis.