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About the Role

The Contracts and Settlements department enables EDF Trading to control commercial activities and process a large volume of transactions. This role will validate trades, ensure timely dispatch of confirmations, and maintain the integrity of the company's traded position and PnL.

Responsibilities

• Reconcile broker recaps and investigate any mismatches.
• Draft and ensure the timely dispatch of all counterparty confirmations.
• Receive and reconcile all counterparty confirmations, investigating and resolving discrepancies.
• Escalate issues to management as appropriate.
• Follow up outstanding and overdue confirmations to ensure receipt within contractual deadlines.
• Monitor electronic confirmations for failures and resolve through to successful match.
• Promote and encourage counterparties to use the electronic matching platform.
• Ensure all processes and procedures are constantly reviewed, documented, and updated.

Requirements

• Good working knowledge of Operations within Energy Markets.
• Knowledge of trade lifecycle processes including booking, amendment, contracts, and settlements.
• Demonstrates analytical skills which can be used in an agile and dynamic working environment.
• Able to follow procedures, identify problems, propose solutions and follow up on resolution.
• Fluent in English with the ability to communicate messages clearly and concisely, both verbally and in writing, with colleagues including senior management.
• Proven problem-solving skills and curiosity.

Skills

• Excel skills are an advantage.

Location

• London
• Paris
• Singapore
• Houston

Work Type

• Hybrid working

Experience Level

• 1-3 years’ experience in applicable role
• Prior experience of working in a Confirmations role (ideally in Gas, Power and Emissions markets)
• Prior experience of working in a Middle / Back office operations role (ideally in Gas, Power and Emissions markets)

Education Level

• Degree level educated or equivalent work experience

Benefits

• Hybrid working
• Personal pension plan
• Private medical and dental insurance
• Bi-annual health assessments
• Corporate gym memberships
• Electric car lease programme
• Childcare vouchers
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Volunteering opportunities

About the Company

• EDF Trading is part of the EDF Group - a world leader in low-carbon, sustainable electricity generation.
• Energy markets evolve rapidly, so our team needs to remain agile, flexible, and ready to spot opportunities across all the markets we trade in power, gas, LNG, LPG, oil, and environmental products.
• Trading for over 20 years, it’s experience that makes us leaders in the field.
• EDFT employees are self-disciplined, hard working, inquisitive, trustworthy and truthful.
• We are committed to equipping our employees with the tools that will enable them to fulfil their job to the highest standard.
• We offer a wide range of technical and personal development courses both in-house and through third-party providers.
• We are proud of our work ethic and cultural diversity.
• We are high-performing people working together to achieve common goals.
• Innovative and flexible in our thinking, we are able to adapt and change, which is critical to our success.
• Issues are met with feedback, solutions and discussion. Mistakes at EDFT are seen as experiences not failures.
• There is no ‘typical’ day. I work on a wide range of compensation, benefit and mobility projects throughout the year. One thing’s for sure though, I’ll have my head in a spreadsheet at some point.

Equal Opportunity

• Gender balance and inclusion are very high on the agenda at EDF Trading.