Flexible Trading Analyst

Company Name: Gazprom Marketing & Trading
Location: England

About Us

From origins as a small, independent gas supplier in the North West of England, we have grown to become a major business energy supplier. After just ten years, Gazprom Energy has become the largest business gas supplier in the UK and we currently supply 34,000 business customers at over 80,000 sites across Europe.

Manchester is home to our European headquarters, a base from which we have expanded into France and the Netherlands. Our teams across Europe are united by the shared ethos of being helpful and making life easier for our customers. In 2015 we won the coveted Energy Supplier of the Year award at the Energy Awards 15, as well as achieving Gold standard in people management by Investors in People for the second time running.

Our culture is defined by our people. Through living our values every day we continue to create a culture that enables us all to succeed. We work as one team with our customers, our parent company and each other in order to understand each other's needs. With an unstoppable passion for excellence, growth and learning, we're committed to creating an environment that fosters the development of knowledge, skills and experience, so that our people can thrive and prosper in their careers with us. We believe that we have the best team in the industry which makes us a trusted partner across international capital and energy markets. Our diverse employee base, with a wealth of expertise, knowledge and experience makes GM&T a truly exciting place to work. We encourage new ideas and initiatives as innovative thinking is central to how we do business. Most importantly, we are a growing and developing business where inspired individuals can make a difference and help shape our future.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Monitor customer positions and transact with our flex customers
• Perform trade entry whilst maintaining a high standard of data accuracy
• Work with wider commercial teams to deliver margins in line with financial forecasts
• Support the development of systems and processes required to deliver a market-leading customer Flexible products platform
• Create and maintain strong, collaborative customer/broker relationships
• In conjunction with the Risk team, develop and execute risk frameworks to manage the market risks associated with Flexible products
• Develop counterparty level SLAs including detailed frameworks and internal processes aimed at mitigating operational risk
• Develop market-leading reporting suites
• Utilise data analytics to identify areas of gross margin generation
• Develop robust and collaborative customer relationships
• Present information on energy markets to sales teams and external customers
• Support innovation in internal and external processes
• Support the billing of Gazprom Energy's flex portfolio

Skills & Competencies

• Excellent understanding of the UK/European energy industry and marketing and trading activity specifics (products, customers and counter-parties)
• Good presentational skills
• Effective written and verbal communication skills, able to communicate complex issues in a clear, understandable manner to customer facing business units
• Strong numerical background
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Attention to detail
• Experience of stakeholder management with proven negotiation skills.
• Strong people management and development skills
• Able to engage and influence across the organisational structure
• Be able to cope in a high pressure environment

• Excellent IT skills; programming experience in VBA/SQL and/or robotic automation would be beneficial

• Energy Risk/Trading background

Experience

• Previous experience of trading or analytics role within an energy organisation

• Seniority level

  Associate

• Employment type

  Full-time

• Job function

  FinanceSales

• Industries

  Oil & Energy