Senior Quantitative Analyst, US

• Others

• Full Time

  Employment Type

• Non-Executive

  Experience Level

• Graduate Diploma

  Education Level

• United States | Closing On 18 Oct 2026

  Country

• Hybrid

  Working Arrangement

About Us

About the Company

The JERA Global Markets Group (JERAGM) is a leading utility-backed energy trader specialising in LNG, power, coal and freight.

As JERA's exclusive trading and optimisation platform for majority shareholder, JERAGM operates one of the most exciting energy portfolios in the world, which gives it an in-depth understanding of the way local, regional and international energy markets behave. This expertise enables us to capture trading opportunities, optimise portfolios, create value and enhance security of supply for our customers.

Headquartered in Singapore, JERAGM has a global talent pool of about 400 people across offices located in five strategic locations: Singapore, the UK (London), Japan (Tokyo), the US (Houston) and Australia (Brisbane).

Job Description

Position Description

This role forms part of JERA's growing North American Gas Trading business, which is expected to transition onto JERAGM's trading platform. This business is wholly owned by JERA Co., Inc. and will focus on US natural gas trading, optimisation and market development across North America. Successful candidates will join during the build-out phase ahead of the business's planned operational launch.

The Models and Valuation group is a centre of quantitative expertise for JERAGM. The group has a broad capability in a wide area of commercial modelling and decision support. This includes deal structuring and valuation, financial engineering, optimisation and decision support analysis. The group gets involved in a wide range of areas across the business supporting both the Front Office and Middle Office functions.

The Senior Quantitative Analyst is a senior individual contributor and the key Quant contact dedicated to JERAGM Americas. The role is a hybrid Front Office and Middle Office Quant position, providing commercial valuation, deal modelling and structuring analysis to Americas stakeholders, while also supporting risk, governance and control requirements in coordination with the Singapore HQ Quant team. The successful candidate will bring strong US pipeline gas and US power plant market knowledge, together with hands-on valuation expertise across physical and financial energy products.

Key Role Responsibilities

• Serve as the key Quant contact for JERAGM Americas, supporting both Front Office commercial activity and Middle Office risk, valuation and control processes in the US timezone.

• Provide quantitative support for deal structuring, valuation and commercial decision-making across US pipeline gas, gas storage, US power plant/VPP and related structured physical and financial transactions.

• Develop, review and enhance valuation models, market parameter methodologies and risk analytics used for both trading support and independent valuation oversight.

• Work closely with the Singapore Quant team to align Americas modelling approaches with global methodology, model governance and control standards.

• Communicate valuation results, assumptions, commercial drivers and risk impacts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Support independent review, validation and documentation of valuation methodologies, assumptions and controls for the Americas portfolio.

• Share technical knowledge with colleagues and help build quantitative understanding across JERAGM Americas and the wider Quant function.

Qualifications

Key Qualifications and Experience

Experience Required

• Significant experience in quantitative valuation, risk management or structuring within a commodity trading company, utility, investment bank or comparable energy-market environment.

• Experience supporting both commercial/front-office valuation needs and middle-office valuation, risk or control requirements.

• Strong practical knowledge of US pipeline gas markets, including transportation, basis, storage, optionality and physical/financial deal structures.

• Strong knowledge of US power markets and power plant economics, including generation optionality, heat rates, spark spreads, dispatch and VPP valuation.

• Proven ability to value structured commodity transactions, build robust valuation models, estimate valuation and hedge parameters, and explain commercial risks clearly.

• Strong understanding of the deal life cycle for option-style and structured transactions, including deal assessment, booking, model implementation, control review and expiry processes.

• Experience designing and implementing quantitative solutions that meet business, valuation, risk and control requirements.

• Experience sharing technical knowledge and supporting colleague development is desirable.

Technical Expertise

• Advanced knowledge of financial derivatives and option theory as applied to commodity markets, including:

• Stochastic price processes;

• Parameter estimation; and

• Valuation techniques, including closed-form and Monte Carlo methods.

• Good working knowledge of Value at Risk methodologies and related risk measures.

• Understanding of mathematical optimisation techniques used in portfolio analysis, asset optimisation and fundamental modelling.

• Strong programming capability in development and scientific languages such as Python, including NumPy and pandas.

• Experience using or deploying solutions to cloud platforms such as Azure would be helpful.

• Advanced Excel & VBA capability is expected.

Person Specification

• Commercially minded and technically strong, with a focus on applying quantitative expertise to practical business problems.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain complex technical information clearly to varied audiences.

• Intellectually curious, analytical and proactive in investigating problems and developing practical solutions.

• Able to collaborate effectively across borders, cultures and office/virtual working environments.

• Team-oriented and motivated to contribute positively to a high-performance working culture.

• Postgraduate degree in finance, mathematics or a related quantitative discipline.

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced trading floor environment.

Role Opportunity

This role offers an opportunity to be the key Quant contact for JERAGM Americas, supporting both Front Office commercial valuation and Middle Office risk, governance and control needs in a growing commodity trading business.

Posted On 20 Jul 2026