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Trainee, Legal

Perm/Temp:  Regular

Espoo, FI

Do you want to join Fortum to power a world where people, businesses and nature thrive together? 

 

Fortum Group Legal team is responsible for Fortum’s corporate and business legal affairs, ethics and compliance and data privacy within the Fortum Group. We are a team of over 50 high-level professionals located in Finland, Sweden, Poland and Norway.  

 

About the role 

We are looking for an enthusiastic and ambitious legal trainee to join our Corporate Customers and Markets (CCM) Legal and Compliance team as legal trainee. You will be based in our company headquarters in Espoo and work together with our global Legal team and also other professionals, with a great opportunity to learn from experienced team members. 

 

CCM business unit is responsible for hedging and value creation in both physical and financial power markets, locking in revenues for Fortum’s power generation and managing supply for Fortum’s Consumer Solutions business unit. CCM is also the customer interface for large industrial customers and pursues value through power demand creation in the Nordic market. Long-term contracts and PPAs with industrial customers are important instruments for CCM. 

 

Our legal trainee program offers law students a unique opportunity to gain valuable hands-on experience in working at a large publicly listed company. You will have your own mentor to guide you through the practicalities of working at Fortum. As legal trainee, you will primarily support our CCM Legal and Compliance team in a wide variety of assignments. Your tasks will include, for example, drafting documents, conducting legal research, preparing presentations and analyses on the application of different laws, as well as providing other day-to-day legal support to our lawyers and compliance experts. A part of the tasks can also be tailored based on your personal interests and previous work experience. We offer you a challenging and rewarding working environment.  

 

This traineeship is offered on a part-time or full-time basis, depending on your preference, and has a fixed duration of 6 to 7 months. The starting date is flexible, but we hope that you will be able to start your traineeship as soon as possible.

 

About you 

You are currently a law student at the final stages of your law studies at a Finnish law school. 

 

Below is a list for you to check if you could be a match for us:  

  • you have completed at least 180 ECTS of your legal studies (however, your master’s degree will not be completed yet at the time of starting the traineeship);  

  • you have an excellent command of both written and spoken English and Finnish and/or Swedish, and great communication skills in general;  

  • you like to take initiative and also have attention to detail;  

  • you are quick to analyse new information and to grasp the big picture; 

  • you are able to manage multiple tasks and work well under time pressure; 

  • you have a can-do attitude and you are not afraid of working independently; and 

  • you are eager to deepen your understanding of the energy sector, contract law and financial regulation. 

 

In addition, you could benefit from having:  

  • previous work experience gained at a law firm and/or as part of a company in-house legal team;  

  • experience in drafting and reviewing agreements; 

  • experience in financial regulation and/or environmental and energy law and 

  • international experience, e.g. exchange studies. 

 

We offer you 

For you, working at Fortum means exciting opportunities to develop your expertise and create a meaningful career. With mutual trust, believing in people, and taking care of everyone’s wellbeing, we can reach even better results. Flexibility is the new normal and we apply a hybrid way of working wherever possible.  

 

Interested?  

Please submit your application (with a transcript of your studies) by 17 February 2025 at the latest. For more information about the position, kindly contact Senior Legal Counsel Laura Kataila, tel. 0407191061, or by email: laura.kataila@fortum.com. We may start interviewing candidates during the application period. Therefore, we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.  

 

To be selected to the position, the applicant must go through background clearance and health examination including drug testing.  

 

At Fortum, we are committed to building diverse teams where everyone feels included and is treated equally.

 

 

We are Fortum
Fortum is a Nordic energy company. Our purpose is to power a world where people, businesses and nature thrive together. We are one of the cleanest energy producers in Europe and our actions are guided by our ambitious environmental targets. We generate and deliver clean energy reliably and help industries to decarbonise their processes and grow. Our core operations in the Nordics comprise of efficient, CO2-free power generation as well as reliable supply of electricity and district heat to private and business customers. For our ~5 000 employees, we commit to be a safe, and inspiring workplace. Fortum's share is listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. fortum.com 

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