Trading Operations Analyst

Marathon Petroleum Corporation•Houston, TX

About The Position

A Trading Operations Analyst ensures trades move accurately and efficiently through the transaction lifecycle. The position involves 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 executed and recorded correctly. The role provides exposure to physical and financial trading activities and opportunities to develop an understanding of market fundamentals and commercial processes. Additional responsibilities include ad hoc analysis supporting trading decisions. The position is based in Houston, Texas, with travel up to 10%. Relocation is available. The role requires a bachelor's degree in a specified or related discipline and at least three years of relevant experience.

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

Supports Trading profit and loss or supply and demand models by tracking daily positions and reconciling differences among Traders, Commercial Risk, Operations, Producers, and Customers.
Develops models and commercially focused tools, dashboards, and reports.
Assists with analytical support for modeling and evaluating new business opportunities and developing strategies.
Performs ad hoc analytical work and prepares presentations as required by Commercial and leadership.
Acquires and maintains external and internal information and resources to develop market intelligence supporting Commercial and MPC business units.
Develops relationships with key external contacts in support of the business.
Interfaces with back- and mid-office teams on new customer setup, commercial activity reconciliation, and issue resolution.
Supports trade capture and validation, position reconciliation, inventory and exposure reporting, coordination with schedulers and counterparties, operational issue resolution, settlements, and trading-system data quality.