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About the Role
CCI is seeking a Strategic Initiatives professional to support its commercial business. This role will focus on executing high-impact business initiatives, onboarding new commercial talent, and driving ETRM trade lifecycle automation, efficiency, and control improvements. The position involves partnering with various cross-functional teams to deliver strategic system enhancements, onboard new trading desks, assist with asset business onboarding/offboarding, and support global expansion efforts.
Responsibilities
- Lead onboarding and strategic projects across the global trading footprint, focusing on London and Geneva offices and businesses, including new trading desks, and market and product expansions.
- Assist the Principal Investments team with Trade Ops and Finance deliverables for asset investments or divestitures.
- Manage new business efforts, including documentation of business and system requirements, cross-functional facilitation, system setup and testing, project planning, and coordinating task completion across multiple departments.
- Establish operational risk and control processes, and documentation for new business and trading activity.
- Support the commercial business in diligence and approvals of new initiatives.
- Onboard and provide ongoing support to new commercial resources, including traders.
- Ensure cross-functional coordination across support groups, connecting new initiatives into existing global processes and working with functional area owners on the definition and implementation of non-standard workflows.
- Undertake ad-hoc strategic and corporate projects as required.
- Collaborate with and, at times, lead initiatives across the firm to design and implement solutions supporting organizational needs, including new product configuration, trading reference data architecture and setup, and process and data flow analysis.
- Oversee the configuration, integration, and optimization of ETRM systems to support front, middle, and back-office functions.
- Setup of new forward price and volatility curves and settlement quotes in the system.
- Liaise with developers for IT development and support as needed.
- Coordinate with the Data Integration team to organize and streamline reference data and develop reporting and analytics solutions.
- Leverage Python for automation prototypes, maintenance of existing processes reliant on Python code, and advanced analytics initiatives.
- Facilitate user acceptance testing, deployment, and training for new system features and enhancements.
- Maintain a strong understanding of data sources, uses, and controls across the enterprise, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
- Maintain documentation of new products onboarded, in addition to areas where the team has assisted in efficiency or enhanced control initiatives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Math, Economics, Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 10+ years experience in a combination of business analysis, project management, cross-departmental business management, trade support, risk, P&L, physical scheduling, or operations within the energy and commodities industry.
- Ability to effectively communicate with commercial teams and all levels of management, with the ability to autonomously lead both meetings and initiatives.
- Demonstrated trade lifecycle experience across one or more of the following commodity products: Electricity, Oil, or Natural Gas; with past exposure to Physical UK and European Power, Carbon, & Natural Gas, Physical Oil Trading, and / or Structured Transactions strongly preferred.
- Hands-on experience across the commodity transaction lifecycle including trading, positions, mark-to-market and P&L management (including FX exposure), confirmations, credit and margin management, scheduling, settlements, invoicing, and accounting.
- Understanding of forward and settlement pricing — including FX, IR, and volatilities — for the valuation of US power, gas, carbon and oil liquids futures, swaps, physicals, and options.
- Strong technical and analytical skills with prior ETRM system experience required.
- Experience with algorithmic or systematic trading preferred.
- Python experience preferred.
- Familiarity with Agile project management methodologies and product model approaches preferred.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders across the organization.
- Strong attention to detail and excellent organizational skills.
- Demonstrated track record of ownership, accountability, and delivery on complex, cross-functional initiatives.
- Demonstrates the ability to lead and execute.
- Must be able to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic and high-intensity environment including open-floor plan, with timely responsiveness and the ability to work beyond normal business hours when required.
Skills
- ETRM system experience
- Python
- Algorithmic trading
- Systematic trading
- Agile project management
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organizational skills
- Leadership
- Execution
Location
- London
- Geneva
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Benefits
- Competitive comprehensive medical, dental, retirement and life insurance benefits
- Employee assistance & wellness programs
- Parental and family leave policies
- 2 days annually to volunteer at selected charities
- Charitable contribution match program
- Tuition assistance & reimbursement
- Quarterly Innovation & Collaboration Awards
- Employee discount program, including access to fitness facilities
- Competitive paid time off
- Continued learning opportunities
About the Company
- CCI is a global energy commodity platform.