Manager -Commodity Trading and Risk Management -CTRM

Job Summary:

Join our Commodities Practice where opportunities are available to grow your consulting skills while being a part of a growing team. CTRM consultants engage with prominent energy and commodities clients all over the world. Our open roles include the Senior Business Consultant position responsible for contributing to the success of the projects by

providing software and industry expertise.

Within this role you will participate as a member of a team dedicated to providing world-class consulting services to our clients.

Position Requirements:

• Provide industry and functional advice and troubleshooting in the discovery workshop, design, implementation, testing, and production support of the Product solution for the clients business needs.
• Present the Product solution to client users.
• Support the deliverables of the Technical Consultants by providing business and functional guidance, review, testing, and validation of scripted solutions (reports,plugins, and interfaces) as directed by Client
• Consult with client users to determine business requirements and work processes to be addressed by one or more areas of the Product solution.
• Demonstrate deep knowledge in one or more areas of Product configuration and in one or more energy commodities.
• Provide guidance to Business Consultants in one or more functional areas of the Product solution.
• Assist with professional services best practices as directed by Line Manager
• Assume hands-on project implementation duties in all phases of the Product implementation, reporting to the Client
• Gather and document business requirements, configuration designs, test plans/results, and any other deliverables required by the project as determined by the Client.
• Keep Line Manager and Client(s) informed regarding the status of assigned responsibilities.
• Adhere to implementation best practices in one or more functional areas of the CTRM solution in all functional design, specifications, custom coding, unit testing, and other deliverables.
• Follow CTRM documentation standards and resolution process flow for all deliverables.
• Maintain full chargeability on client account(s) as assigned.

Knowledge Preferred:

• Implementation experience with Allegro, or other CTRM/ETRM applications preferred; relevant ETRM background considered.
• Deep knowledge across Accounting, Scheduling, Front Office (Trading), Mid Office/Risk, and industry-specific operations (Crude, NGLs, Refined Products,Biofuels, Coal, Power, Utilities, Pipeline operations, etc.).

Skills Preferred:

• Accounting: Candidate must have implementation experience with

accounting coding and transaction typing, accounts ayable/receivables, inventory reconciliation, inventory valuation (WACOG), tax, invoicing templates, pay terms, counterparty set up, accruals, LCM entries, cashflows (cash receipts/disbursements). Additionally, the capability to troubleshoot issues and errors is critical.

• Scheduling: Candidate must have strong knowledge of scheduling concepts in ETRM systems. Implementation experience necessary with transportation (trucks,rail, waterborne, pipeline, product transfers), storage, 3rd party storage, exchanges,and processing (fractionation, blending, and refining), inventory management,

position reporting, tariff and fees capture.Specific Allegro, (or any CTRM Application) features capabilities a plus including Inventory, Voyage anagement, Order Matching, Over/ Under Lift Engine, Volume Caps, Scheduling, Position reporting, ATM (Asset Transaction Management),Templates (Movement and Order), Order Roll, Scheduling Ob management,provisions, date rules, UOMs, incoterms, book letters,

NOS, Lease Crude (Canadian and US), RINS, Volume to Mass conversions/impacts,Supply/Demand reporting.

• Front Office: Candidate must have strong knowledge of Trading concepts.Capabilities should include experience with both physical (purchases, sales,exchange for physicals (EFP), buy/sells, exchanges, etc.), financial instruments (Futures, Options, OTC Swaps, OTC Options, FX Swaps, Exchange Traded Options,etc.) and master agreements. Knowledge of GT&Cs, contract management, pricing constructs, incoterms, and trade approvals desired. Experience with pricing indices (OPIS, NYMEX, ICE, PLATTS, Argus), price curve capture/ interfacing, gravity and quality adjustments, contracts/confirms, credit (netting, collateral, exposure,

reporting), RINs, LCFS, proof of sustainability, volume to mass

conversions/impacts, inhouse deals/rules, portfolios/strategies, limits, Lease Crude (US and Canadian), and position reporting.

• Mid Office/Risk: Candidate must have strong knowledge of mid-office and risk concepts. Capabilities should include experience with financial deals (cleared futures and options, OTC swaps, OTC options, FX swaps, etc.), book structure, price curve configuration (calendars, quote periods, delivery periods.Specific Allegro, (or any CTRM Application) features capabilities a plus including Price Service Maintenance, Price Curve Maintenance, Curve Calculation Configurations (Forward, Market; Derived), date rules, provisions, default fees,inhouse transactions (inhouse deals, inhouse rules, embedded inhouse provisions; transfer pricing), exposure reporting flat vs basis, decomposition, exposure by day, etc.), MTM reporting, risk limits (position limits, MTM PnL limits), broker reconciliation, and derivative P&Sing, exchange integration, credit reporting/configuration credit counterparty setup, credit instruments, sub lining, credit check configuration, credit exposure reporting, credit available reporting, etc.), VaR and stress testing, and option valuation

• Industry: Crude, Lease Crude, NGLs (natural gas liquids), Refined Products,Biofuels, Coal, Airlines, Pipeline Operations, Rack/Retail Business, Power and Utilities

• Ability to work independently or as part of a project team structure.