Venture Global LNG (“Venture Global”) is a long-term, low-cost provider of American-produced liquefied natural gas. The company’s Louisiana-based export projects service the global demand for North American natural gas and support the long-term development of clean and reliable North American energy supplies. Using reliable, proven technology in an innovative plant design configuration, Venture Global’s modular, mid-scale plant design will replace traditional designs as it allows for the same efficiency and operational reliability at significantly lower capital cost.
We are seeking qualified applicants for the position:
Analyst, Middle Office
Located:
Houston
Summary
We are seeking an Analyst, Middle Office Commodity Solutions to support our Commodity Systems including the ETRM, Price Repository, Commercial Applications and related interfaces.
General Description Duties & Responsibilities
- Work with team members to produce high quality deliverables for business needs.
- Develop ad hoc reports as required by business to manage position, risk, provide control and security data information, audit reports.
- Provide reports for Back office (Accounting & Settlement).
- Assess the ETRM and related systems architecture currently in place and work with technical staff to provide solutions and process improvement.
- Daily Support:
- Collaborate with stakeholders involved in the commodity trading and risk management (CTRM) / energy trading and risk management (ETRM) business.
- Perform daily monitoring to ensure system functionality is working properly.
- Inform various stakeholders about any technical problems.
- Coordinate with Vendors as needed.
- Support the business with system issues to ensure business processes are not interrupted.
- Provide audit support for ETRM security, change management activities, and audit population reports.
- Coordinate with Software vendor to understand system functionality including operations, security, and reporting to provide support to business.
- Change Management and Regression testing:
- Work closely with Front/Middle/Back Office, Operations and Finance business users to provide production support
- Gather, document, and deliver requirements and use cases through to user acceptance and implementation.
- Assist in developing technical requirements for ETRM based on new or changing business needs.
- Assist in the integration of ETRM solutions with third party systems when needed.
- Support the business in enhancements as needed as LNG implementation and other liquefaction facilities come online.
- Assist in configurations required as our business expands including updates to contract templates, reporting, curve and location setup, etc.
- Assist in regression testing and reviewing changes for Service Packs or patches for the Commodity Systems.
- Perform other tasks as assigned.
Qualifications
Required experience
- 1+ years of experience in Commodity/Energy Trading Business domain with emphasis in Natural Gas and LNG trading.
- 1+ years experience in designing, coding, configuring, testing, and debugging reports, plugins, and interfaces.
- Excellent MS Excel skills including task automation using macros and VBA, creating dynamic reports with PivotTables, building formulas, building charts and graphs.
- Experience working with Java, JavaScript, VBA and other programing languages.
- Experience with SQL/PostgreSQL is required.
- Strong understanding of relational database concepts.
- Strong Object-Oriented, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Good written and oral communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Must be self-motivated, independent, and resourceful.
Preferred Experience
- Experience working with an ETRM/ or CTRM system preferred.
Required Education
- Bachelor’s degree or greater in Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a directly related IT field.
Venture Global LNG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.