Carbon Analyst (f/m/d)
Location: Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Applications can only be submitted online via our portal. Please understand that we cannot consider applications that reach us by e-mail.
Job description
Your tasks
- Act as the Carbon Market Information Base for E.ON, ensuring consistency and transparency in key assumptions, inputs, and outputs across business units.
- Develop and maintain the “E.ON View” on carbon market fundamentals (EUA/UKA supply-demand balance, policy developments, abatement cost curves, etc.).
- Provide robust input to and help maintain fundamental modelling frameworks (e.g., long-term carbon price models, marginal abatement models, market balance projections).
- Monitor key developments in EU ETS (ETS 1, ETS 2, GoOs), UK ETS, CBAM, and other regulatory or compliance schemes and assess their impact on trading strategies and compliance outlooks.
- Deliver scenario-based analysis and market insights to support trading desks, risk teams, strategic planning, and investment assessments in particular with Green Desk .
- Collaborate closely with power, gas, and macroeconomic analysts to ensure carbon dynamics are fully integrated into commodity outlooks and strategies.
- Track auction dynamics, hedging behaviours, industrial demand, and regulatory drivers impacting carbon price formation and volatility.
- Produce regular internal updates and stakeholder briefings, translating technical insights into actionable commercial implications.
- Contribute to the evolution of E.ON’s decarbonization strategy through strong analytical support and structured carbon market insights.
Your profile
- Around 4-5 years of experience in carbon markets, emissions trading, energy policy, or commodity analysis-ideally within a utility, trading house, consultancy, or financial institution.
- Solid understanding of European carbon market mechanisms (EU ETS, UK ETS, CBAM), supply-demand modelling, and regulatory outlooks.
- Familiarity with energy market fundamentals (power, gas) and how carbon interacts with cross-commodity pricing and hedging strategies.
- Experience working with fundamental modelling tools or scenario analysis frameworks; proficiency in Excel is essential; coding (Python, R) is a plus.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate technical carbon market insights to both commercial and strategic stakeholders.
- Team player with a collaborative mindset and strong attention to detail; comfortable working across disciplines and organizational boundaries.
- Proactive, self-motivated, and curious about the role of carbon pricing in energy transition and net-zero strategies.
- Eagerness to grow by collaborating across E.ON’s international operations.
- Fluency in English (spoken and written); additional European languages are a plus.
E.ON is united in working on the most exciting issue that our generation needs to solve climate change! With all our employees and customers, we are a global community of innovators and changemakers, all with the belief that each one of us can make a difference for our environment, for our society and for our children - We shape the future.
To keep you motivated and healthy we are offering you the following benefits:
- Flexibility: hybrid work model, flexible working times, sabbatical or additional vacation opportunities allowing great work-life balance
- Working from abroad: up to 20 days in the European economic area
- Flat hierarchies: interdisciplinary and very cooperative working style providing room for own ideas
- Modern work environment: workplace according to digital and ergonomic standards
- Personal growth: life-long independent learning making use of a broad range of opportunities working with the newest technology and state of the art trainings
- Family service support: services in the areas of childcare, holiday care, nursing support or everyday assistance
- Nutrition & Health: wide selection of fresh meals and drinks in our subsidized bistro and canteen as well as various health offers (e.g. physiotherapy, flu vaccinations, mental health)
- Corporate Benefits: employee share program, pension scheme, employee discounts, special insurances (and much more)
- A central location: very good public transport connection, free parking and charging points for e-vehicles
- Individual mobility: private car and bicycle leasing as well as subsidized Deutschland Ticket
Inclusion
It is important to us that people with disabilities have access to a fair application process, providing them with an opportunity to shine. Therefore, our representative body for severely disabled people will be included in the process from an early stage. Please let us know via the application form if you require technical or organisational adjustments during the application process. We will strive to make the required aids available.
Should you not be able to apply online and want to speak someone in person, please contact your local recruiter.
What else you should know:
Type of contract:
Permanent contract
Employment type:
Full or part time
Work Model:
Hybrid
Company:
E.ON Energy Markets GmbH
Job number:
238057
As long as the position is advertised on our careers page, we are looking for suitable candidates (f/m/d). We look forward to receiving your application!
