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Tomas PITERKA

Zug

Summary

Enthusiastic and ambitious energy trading professional eager to contribute to company success through European energy markets knowledge connecting proprietary trading, origination perspective and portfolio management insights. Motivated to learn.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Trader/Portfolio Manager

EP Commodities AG
07.2022 - Current
  • Trading around the flow from EPP/EPH power plants in Italy – focus on mid and long term (from Month-ahead) & French Power and Gas - whole curve (VaR limit 500K EUR)
  • Own proprietary trading book – power, gas, EUA, coal, spark and dark spreads, location and time spreads – with the main focus SWE region (VaR limit 600K EUR)
  • Managing all activities related to hedging (execution, pricing and other trading services for power plants) and partially creating strategies and executing trades around the flow of the other group assets

Senior Trader

ČEZ
01.2021 - 04.2022
  • Manage own prop book and PnL within VaR limit 500K / risk capital - create strategies to generate profit on speculative positions
  • Tools - mostly Location/Time Spreads, outright positions, cross-commodity and fuel spreads and using option structures
  • Main markets - Italian and Hungarian Gas market
  • Other markets - Whole european gas and power market, JKM/TTF financially, Henry hub, EUAs, Brent
  • Other responsibilities - manage and execute Gas team's strategic book - oversee PnL and performance of our strategies
  • Discuss trading opportunities and relevant market information with analysts to highlight current market fundamentals and build and evaluate trading plan

Senior Trader/Originator

ČEZ
08.2019 - 12.2020
  • Manage own origination book and PnL within VaR limits - create strategies to generate profit on structured positions: gas storages, flows and capacities, locations spreads, non-standard/structured contracts, flexibility, market access
  • Developing new business and looking for opportunities
  • Main markets - Eastern gas markets (AT, HU, SK, PL, UA, BG)
  • Achievements: Set-up UA gas business and Ukrainian gas storage, Re-open PL wholesale trading and using transit capacities, RO and BG gas market
  • Discuss trading opportunities and relevant market information with analysts and trading department

Head of Long Term Trading & Origination

ZSE Energia, a.s.
06.2018 - 07.2019
  • Managing and optimizing long term portfolio - power/gas
  • Cross-commodity trading (standard and nonstandard/structured products, financial hedging, physical hedging, options)
  • Analyzing energy markets and developing strategies
  • Managing assets - gas storage, transit capacities (power&gas), long term CCGT power plant hedging (gas, power, emissions/EUA)
  • Legislation and regulation (monitoring and implementing into business set-up)
  • Origination
  • Team leading

Senior Trader

ZSE Energia, a.s.
09.2017 - 05.2018
  • Cross-commodity trading (power and gas) - standard and nonstandard/structured contract, spot-forward
  • Market monitoring, analyzing and reporting - developing, consulting and implementing strategies and looking for market opportunities
  • Managing assets - gas storage, transit capacities - analyzing, valuation and execution in the purchase process
  • Physical and trading portfolio management
  • Legislation and regulation – monitoring and implementing into business set-up
  • Origination – communication with counter-parties, negotiation and comment on contracts (EFET, nonstandard/structured bilateral), managing internal process and communication across departments, spreading business abroad – covering process from business model, registration and administration to physical dispatching set-up

Gas Sourcing Specialist

ZSE Energia, a.s.
04.2013 - 08.2017
  • Natural gas trading - standard and nonstandard contract, spot-forward
  • Market monitoring, analyzing and reporting – portfolio, sourcing strategies
  • Managing assets - gas storage, transit capacities - analyzing, valuation and execution in the purchase process
  • Covering whole area of physical gas portfolio management, legislation and regulation, origination, dispatching

Education

Faculty of Management

Comenius University
Bratislava
04.2014

Faculty of Mathematics And Physics

Charles University - Physics And Computer Science
Prague
06.2009

Skills

  • Strong trading discipline
  • Commodity risk management
  • Portfolio risk mitigation/hedging
  • MS Office
  • Matlab
  • Bloomberg / Refinitiv Eikon

Certification

European Energy Exchages Licenses

Interests

Reading / Sport / Family

Timeline

Senior Trader/Portfolio Manager

EP Commodities AG
07.2022 - Current

Senior Trader

ČEZ
01.2021 - 04.2022

Senior Trader/Originator

ČEZ
08.2019 - 12.2020

Head of Long Term Trading & Origination

ZSE Energia, a.s.
06.2018 - 07.2019

Senior Trader

ZSE Energia, a.s.
09.2017 - 05.2018

Gas Sourcing Specialist

ZSE Energia, a.s.
04.2013 - 08.2017

Faculty of Management

Comenius University

Faculty of Mathematics And Physics

Charles University - Physics And Computer Science
Tomas PITERKA