Analyst - Energy Deals Desk

Main Purpose:The Deals Desk is a middle office team providing market and risk analysis globally. The team’s primary responsibilities revolve around monitoring all elements of the risk and exposures related to commercial activity and report it directly to the Management Board on a daily basis.

Commercially, the team adds value by providing traders with risk assessments and analysis which highlight their exposure, optionality and P&L. These reports are essential to help them make the right commercial decisions and optimize the opportunities their portfolios generate, all the while providing Deals Desk employees with an unprecedented office learning experience in the world of trading.
The deals desk team is responsible for maintenance and enhancement of core P&L data to increase accuracy and timeliness of the daily trading resultsKnowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

Knowledge and Skills & Abilities

Candidates preferably with at least 1-5yrs work experience with the following: •

• MBA in Finance
• Degree in Engineering is desirable
• Should be meticulous and innovative
• Have reasonable market analysis skills
• Should be proficient excel abilities
• Familiarity with using multiple systems is a plus
• Strong organisationalskills
• Should have excellent English communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast paced high pressure environment

Key Responsibilities

Be responsible for the production and reporting of daily trading positions and management P&L, production and monitoring of daily trading P&L and volumetric exposure reports, post deal review and system reconciliation. Enter inception P&L for all new trading strategies, and maintain the economics on these strategies from cradle to grave

• Independently justify the economics applied to each trading strategy.
• Apply forward curve on daily basis for physical and derivative markets to current position and to explain the impact on the trading P&L.
• Produce daily commentary for board of directors / traders to explain the change in the trading profit and loss due to market changes/change in estimated / actual economics for each deal.
• Analyse exposure and M2M profit and loss on physical/derivative portfolios
• Ensure all market price risk is captured and hedge actions executed
• Assess implication of changes to future physical deliveries and report and discuss impact of hedge strategy
• Creation and maintenance of ad-hoc reports to assist in any area of position reporting /structure /hedging ( data integrity / trade entry / irregular business structures).
• Full responsibility for integrity of data in trading systems that is used to generate the above items

Key Relationships

• Deals Management, Physical/Derivative Traders, Operators, Finance Dept, Chartering Dept, Demurrage Dept, Deals Team

Reporting Structure

• Deals Desk Manager at TGS