Analyst, Middle Office
Venture Global LNG (“Venture Global”) is a long-term, low-cost provider of American-produced liquefied natural gas. The company’s Louisiana-based export projects service the global demand for North American natural gas and support the long-term development of clean and reliable North American energy supplies. Using reliable, proven technology in an innovative plant design configuration, Venture Global’s modular, mid-scale plant design will replace traditional designs as it allows for the same efficiency and operational reliability at significantly lower capital cost.
We are seeking qualified applicants for the position:
Analyst, Middle OfficeLocated:
HoustonWe are seeking an Analyst, Middle Office Commodity Solutions to support our Commodity Systems including the ETRM, Price Repository, Commercial Applications and related interfaces.
General Description Duties & Responsibilities
Work with team members to produce high quality deliverables for business needs.
Develop ad hoc reports as required by business to manage position, risk, provide control and security data information, audit reports.
Provide reports for Back office (Accounting & Settlement).
Assess the ETRM and related systems architecture currently in place and work with technical staff to provide solutions and process improvement.
Daily Support:
Collaborate with stakeholders involved in the commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) / energy trading and risk management (ETRM) business.
Perform daily monitoring to ensure system functionality is working properly.
Inform various stakeholders about any technical problems.
Coordinate with Vendors as needed.
Support the business with system issues to ensure business processes are not interrupted.
Provide audit support for ETRM security, change management activities, and audit population reports.
Coordinate with Software vendor to understand system functionality including operations, security, and reporting to provide support to business.
Change Management and Regression testing:
Work closely with Front/Middle/Back Office, Operations and Finance business users to provide production support
Gather, document, and deliver requirements and use cases through to user acceptance and implementation.
Assist in developing technical requirements for ETRM based on new or changing business needs.
Assist in the integration of ETRM solutions with third party systems when needed.
Support the business in enhancements as needed as LNG implementation and other liquefaction facilities come online.
Assist in configurations required as our business expands including updates to contract templates, reporting, curve and location setup, etc.
Assist in regression testing and reviewing changes for Service Packs or patches for the Commodity Systems.
Perform other tasks as assigned.
Qualifications
Required experience
1+ years of experience in Commodity/Energy Trading Business domain with emphasis in Natural Gas and LNG trading.
1+ years experience in designing, coding, configuring, testing, and debugging reports, plugins, and interfaces.
Excellent MS Excel skills including task automation using macros and VBA, creating dynamic reports with PivotTables, building formulas, building charts and graphs.
Experience working with Java, JavaScript, VBA and other programing languages.
Experience with SQL/PostgreSQL is required.
Strong understanding of relational database concepts.
Strong Object-Oriented, analytical and problem-solving skills.
Good written and oral communication skills.
Excellent interpersonal skills.
Must be self-motivated, independent, and resourceful.
Preferred Experience
Experience working with an ETRM/ or CTRM system preferred.
Required Education
Bachelor’s degree or greater in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a directly related IT field.
Venture Global LNG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.