A leading international energy company with activities in exploration, production, transport and marketing of oil and natural gas are looking to for a Trade Control Analyst to join the team in Central London.

This role is for Trade Control Analyst within the Middle Office (Trade Control) unit, involved in day-to-day trade control activities, particularly around Gas, Power, Emissions, Coal and LNG (GPE) trading activities.

The role will work closely with a number of other departments, in particular Front Office (FO), IT, Back Office (BO) and other departments. The Trade Control team performs daily price and transaction validation and controls activities and will work very closely with the Front Office and other streams within Middle Office, as well as other parts of the business.

Key Responsibilites

• Perform all trade control activities covering Gas, Power, Emissions and LNG business, including but not limited to trade validation (including modification and cancellation review), anti-fraud and trading mandate control, daily EOD run, market data validation, EOM procedures, on-going projects etc.
• Carry out all SOX controls as foreseen by company's policies & procedures by ensuring all daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly controls per RCM are appropriately and timely performed, documented and challenged, where necessary, with full audit trail. Ensure new controls are appropriately and timely implemented, where necessary.
• Contribute to the change management process during the course of the year contributing to the implementation of an efficient "trade control department" aligned to industry best practices.
• Actively look out for opportunities to streamline procedures and processes within Trade Control, propose improvements, drive changes together with ICT and BCI for an efficient implementation;
• Act as a gatekeeper of all transactions in Endur, maintenance of static data in ETRM systems (calendar, broker, mappings, curves, books set-up etc).
• Daily validation of accuracy and correctness of market data being used to generate pnl (IPSE Quality Control Module).
• Contribute to the End of Day process in ETRM systems
• Provide support to the Month End processes in coordination with Finance, Accounting and BO;
• Contribute to Market Risk and Finance on new curves definition and implementation.
• Act as dedicated MO interface with confirmation/ contracts/ operations Department;
• Ensuring that all Trade Control KPIs are properly implemented and followed with zero incidents;

Candidate Requirements

• University degree preferably in Economics, Finance, Statistics or Quantitative discipline;
• Understanding of the energy markets is essential, preferably GPE markets
• Banking/ Financial Service / Commodity or Trading background is beneficial;
• Controls oriented mindset i.e. strong awareness of inherent risks, controls environment and the need for continuous monitoring of control activities.
• Logical thinker whilst focusing on design effectiveness of processes to provide innovative solutions.
• Experience of participation in projects, running and delivery of projects, focus on continuous improvements, identify the need of new projects, implementation of best practices, achieving excellence.