Trading Operations Analyst

Marathon Petroleum Corporation•Houston, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

A Trading Operations Analyst ensures that trades move accurately and efficiently through the transaction lifecycle. The role includes trade capture and validation, position reconciliation, inventory and exposure reporting, coordination with schedulers and counterparties, operational issue resolution, settlement support, and maintaining data quality across trading systems. The analyst works closely with traders, providing timely market and operational information, identifying discrepancies, monitoring risk-related data, and helping ensure transactions are correctly executed and recorded. The position provides exposure to physical and financial trading activities and supports development of knowledge of market fundamentals and commercial processes. It also performs ad hoc analysis to support trading decisions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Marketing, Economics, Engineering, Marine, or a related discipline.
Three or more years of experience in Commercial, Risk, Trading Analytics, Marine, Scheduling, or Marketing.

Responsibilities

Support Trading profit and loss or supply and demand models by tracking daily positions and reconciling differences between Traders and/or Commercial Risk, Operations, Producers, and Customers.
Develop models, commercial-focused tools, dashboards, and reports.
Assist with analytical support for modeling and evaluating new business opportunities and developing strategies.
Perform ad hoc analytical work and prepare presentations as required by Commercial and leadership.
Acquire and maintain external and internal information and resources to develop market intelligence in support of Commercial and MPC business units.
Develop relationships with key external contacts in support of the business.
Interface with back- and mid-office teams on new customer setup, reconciliation of commercial activities, and issue resolution.
Support trade capture and validation, position reconciliation, inventory and exposure reporting, coordination with schedulers and counterparties, operational issue resolution, settlements, and trading-system data quality.