Commercial Analyst - Natural Gas

Vitol • Houston, TX

4h • Onsite

About The Position

The Commercial Analyst (CA) role supports the day-to-day operations of the trading desk, ensuring a detailed position summary is maintained for the trader and the matrix as a whole. This role actively monitors exposures during the trading day by consolidating data from Vitol's MIS infrastructure and external sources for the trading matrix. The CA is also responsible for broader desk activities, including risk modeling of trades, ensuring proper documentation and consistent calculation of exposures, monitoring futures nearing expiry, and determining hedging strategies in coordination with Traders. The CA collaborates with all other Vitol departments to ensure accurate information is held in Vista throughout the transaction lifecycle, from execution to settlement. The CA is expected to provide commentary on daily profitability reports, explaining P&L movements by understanding P&L drivers and relevant market information. This role provides management information and decision support to the Trader through reports, modeling, and general analysis. Additional activities may include managing storage, internal projects like setting up new businesses, and working with MIS.

Requirements

• 2 or more years of experience in natural gas, power, or related energy markets
• Deal entry and/or deal reconciliation experience
• Understanding of both physical and financial power and natural gas traded products
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Analytical understanding and support
• Wholesale Power & Natural Gas fundamentals, i.e. generation, load, weather, fuels, transmission, gas flows, pipeline outages, etc.
• Ability to build and maintain daily, weekly, and monthly analysis reports for the traders
• Ability to build and maintain tools that capture, analyze, and display time-sensitive data to traders and effectively work with IT to accomplish needs

Nice To Haves

• experience in VBA is preferred
• Programming ability in Python, R, or other languages are a plus
• Growth in programmatic development capabilities is expected over time
• Energy asset valuation and deal structuring experience are a plus

Responsibilities

• Timely and accurate deal entry and deal reconciliation
• Intra-day PnL and position reconciliation for the Natural Gas desks
• Ability to work under pressure to resolve real-time issues confidently
• Ability to manage communications, priority, and expectations with Traders, Operators and Management
• Strong working relationship and communications with other internal departments
• Continued development of Vista reporting and/or process improvements
• Use Vitol’s software platforms, custom analytical models, and industry standard techniques to identify opportunities and risks in the North American Utilities markets
• Maintain, enhance, and monitor models and applications fundamental to our strategies and trading scenarios

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed