LNG Financial Trader

About the role

The LNG Financial Trader will be responsible for pricing, valuing, and managing financial exposures linked to physical LNG portfolios and optionality. The role focuses on developing and executing trading and hedging strategies across European natural gas markets, Henry Hub, and JKM basis markets.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and execute trading strategies on European and Henry Hub natural gas and LNG‑linked (JKM) financial markets, including futures, swaps, options and other derivatives.
• Price and manage financial optionality embedded in LNG supply, transportation and marketing portfolios.
• Monitor US gas fundamentals—production, storage, pipeline flows, LNG export demand, weather impacts and supply‑demand balances.
• Identify and act on trading opportunities arising from market dislocations, regional basis movements, volatility and global gas dynamics.
• Manage hedging strategies for LNG exposures using a range of financial instruments.
• Leverage quantitative models, analytics and market data to support valuation, risk management and trading decisions.
• Collaborate with LNG commercial, origination, risk management, scheduling and analytics teams to optimise portfolio performance.
• Maintain relationships with brokers, exchanges, counterparties and other market participants.

Required profile

• Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Finance, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics or a related field.
• Proven experience in European and US natural gas trading, LNG trading or gas derivatives trading.
• Strong understanding of Henry Hub pricing, US natural gas fundamentals, basis markets, storage dynamics and LNG export economics.
• Experience managing financial risk associated with LNG portfolios and physical optionality.
• Knowledge of futures, swaps, options and structured gas products, including volatility and options valuation concepts.

Required skills

• Python
• R
• VBA