About the Role
Our LNG division is renowned for its international reach, engaging in physical and financial trading of cargoes across all continents. We are seeking a highly skilled LNG Trading Analyst to join our high growth front-office desk. This commercially focused role demands exceptional numerical skills, strategic thinking, and a talent for structuring innovative deals. Your experience in global energy markets, including Asia and other high-growth regions, will be instrumental in shaping our company's success.
Responsibilities
- Deliver pre-deal and structuring analysis.
- Assist in financial trading analysis, including options, derivatives, and financial engineering techniques.
- Build front-office tools to model trading opportunities and analyse pre-deal risk and reward.
- Maintain systems and processes to ensure accuracy and ease of use for initial LNG deal valuation and booking.
- Plan, interpret, and package P&L, exposure and position data to facilitate trading decisions.
- Reconcile exposure and act as a link between the front office and partnering functions (Product Control, Finance, and Front Office models).
- Provide structuring analysis to LNG Business Developers and support portfolio model development.
- Perform market analysis to identify target customers and understand decision-making processes.
- Interface with teams across Centrica Energy to develop LNG Analytics modelling capabilities.
Requirements
- Experience in LNG trading and the wider energy trading environment, with exposure to gas, power, and other commodities.
- Proficiency in assembling and disseminating ETRM information and transferring it into actionable business insights.
- Experience in LNG shipping and commercial LNG contracts.
- Strong analytical skills with attention to detail.
- Advanced Excel and programming skills (Python preferred; VBA, C++, and statistical packages are a bonus).
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Skills
- Numerical skills
- Strategic thinking
- Deal structuring
- Global energy markets
- Asia and high-growth regions
- Short-term LNG Trading
- Trading analysis
- Valuation
- P&L delivery
- Cash delivery
- Collaboration
- Stakeholder skills
- LNG Business Development
- Structured economic deals analysis
- NPV valuation
- Optionality valuation
- Extrinsic deal valuation
- Model development and adaptation
- Asian and new market trends
- Counterparty/competitor analysis
- Mid to long-term deal-making
- Financial trading analysis
- Options
- Derivatives
- Financial engineering techniques
- Front-office tools development
- Pre-deal risk and reward analysis
- LNG deal valuation
- Booking
- P&L data interpretation
- Exposure data interpretation
- Position data interpretation
- Exposure reconciliation
- LNG Analytics modelling capabilities
- Advanced Excel
- Python
- VBA
- C++
- Statistical packages
- Interpersonal skills
- Communication skills
Location
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Office-based
Experience Level
- High growth
- Front-office desk
Benefits
- Flexibility
- Support for family
- Financial support
- Physical support
- Emotional support
- UK's best Carers Policy
About the Company
- We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising how we power the planet.
- We're energisers. One team of 21,000 colleagues that’s energising a greener, fairer future by creating an energy system that doesn’t rely on fossil fuels, whilst living our powerful commitment to igniting positive change in our communities.
- At Centrica Energy, our mission is to move it. We’re energy movers by nature. We’re a global renewable energy trading company which helps move energy from source to use – powering businesses, homes, and societies as they transition to a new sustainable energy future.
- We make it, store it, move it, sell it and mend it.
- We’re made up of 12 different businesses, but united by our purpose as Centrica.
- Our journey to a greener, fairer future is powered by individuals like you.
- Through innovative green products, intelligent energy solutions and developing smarter ways to use and save energy, we’re not just part of the energy transition, we’re leading it.
- Our commitment goes beyond sustainability. Together we’re bringing our collective energies to create positive change in our local communities.
Equal Opportunity
- We’re looking for people to add to our culture – not fit in with it.
- We're building a community where you can be unapologetically you, where differences are celebrated, and where everyone can belong.
- Real inclusivity also means supporting the different realities our people face.
