Senior Manager ETRM

International Business Machines Corp

Houston, TX

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Agile Programming Methodologies, Analysis Skills, Application Integration, Automation, Brokerage, Budget Management, Budgeting, Business Development, Capacity Management, Cargo/Freight, Cash Management, Change Control, Change Management, Commodity Management, Conferences, Configuration Management, Consulting, Contract Research Organization (CRO), Credit Risk, Customer Relations, Data Management, Data Migration, Dodd Frank Act, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), Ecosystems, Environmental Compliance, Financial Information eXchange (FIX), Green Transportation, Head of Finance, ISO (International Organization for Standardization), International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Inventory Management, Leadership, Liquified Natural Gas (LNG), Logistics, Maintain Compliance, Manufacturing Data Management, Market Trend Analysis, Marketing/Sales Collateral, Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID), Operations Management, Oracle Financials, Profit & Loss, Program Planning, Project/Program Management, Reconciliation, Registered Training Organisation (RTO), Regulations, Regulatory Reports, Resource Management, Revenue Planning, Risk, Risk Management, SAP, Sales, Sales Pipeline, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Service Level Agreement (SLA), Simulation, Stress Testing, Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), System Integration (SI), System Migration, Systems Administration/Management, Thought Leadership, Treasury Management, Value At Risk (VaR), Vendor/Supplier Relations, Waterfall Model of Software Development, White Papers
LOCATION
Houston, TX
POSTED
8 days ago

Program Planning & Delivery

  • Develop and manage ETRM implementation program plans covering scope, schedule, budget, and resource allocation across front-office, risk, back-office, logistics, and IT workstreams.
  • Lead all project phases from initiation through post-go-live stabilization, applying appropriate delivery frameworks (Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid) and managing risks, change control, and executive reporting.
  • Manage program budgets, vendor contracts, and resource plans across internal teams, client stakeholders, and third-party integrators.

Commodity Risk Management

  • Lead configuration of risk management workflows, including position management, mark-to-market valuation, P&L attribution, limit monitoring, real-time Greeks, and VaR reporting across power, gas, and financial books.
  • Deliver credit risk capabilities including counterparty exposure monitoring, pre-trade limit checking, ISDA netting configuration, CVA/DVA calculations, and collateral and margin management.
  • Implement VaR and stress testing infrastructure (historical simulation, parametric, Monte Carlo), scenario analysis, and board-level risk reporting.
  • Oversee energy-specific risk constructs such as basis risk, spark/dark spreads, location and transportation risk, renewable output variability, and market data governance including curve management and volatility surface controls.

Physical Delivery, Logistics & Operations

  • Lead implementation of physical commodity workflows across the full lifecycle from trade capture through delivery and settlement.
  • Configure gas nominations and pipeline scheduling including NAESB-compliant nominations, storage scheduling, transportation capacity management, fuel balancing, and imbalance cash-out.
  • Implement power scheduling including day-ahead and real-time market bid/offer submission, generation self-scheduling, unit commitment, and e-Tag submission to ISO/RTO portals (CAISO, ERCOT, PJM, MISO, NYISO, SPP).
  • Configure crude, refined products, and LNG logistics including cargo and vessel scheduling, terminal operations, inventory management, and LNG-specific workflows such as SPA volume tracking and cargo diversion management.
  • Govern physical settlement including MDM integration, invoice generation, dispute resolution, and integration with operational feeder systems such as SCADA, EMS/DMS, TMS, and pipeline OBA.

Connected Application Integration

  • Map and govern the full ecosystem of enterprise systems impacted by the ETRM implementation, ensuring all integration dependencies are identified and addressed before go-live.
  • Oversee ERP and GL integration (SAP S/4HANA, SAP IS-U, Oracle Financials) including journal entry automation, AP/AR workflows, hedge accounting feeds (ASC 815 / IFRS 9), and treasury and cash management connectivity.
  • Manage market data integration (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, ICE, Platts), exchange connectivity (CME, ICE via FIX protocol), and prime brokerage and cleared swap reconciliation feeds.
  • Govern regulatory reporting connections (Dodd-Frank SDR, EMIR/MiFID II, FERC EQR/Form 552, environmental registries) and logistics platform integrations (IMOS, pipeline portals, TMS, rail/truck dispatch).
  • Ensure master data governance across connected systems and implement interface monitoring with defined SLAs and reconciliation exception workflows.

Regulatory, Compliance & Reporting

  • Govern Dodd-Frank, EMIR, and MiFID II trade reporting compliance including SEF connectivity, SDR submissions, and large trader position reporting.
  • Oversee FERC compliance (EQR, Form 552, Standards of Conduct), SOX controls over P&L and risk reporting workflows, and environmental compliance integrations including RIN, LCFS, RGGI, WCI, and renewable certificates.

Stakeholder Alignment & Change Management

  • Establish governance structures across CRO, CTO, VP Operations, CFO, and CIO, and translate technical decisions into business impact framing for senior leadership.
  • Lead change management including business readiness assessment, role-based training, and communication planning across traders, risk managers, operations, and back-office teams.
  • Manage vendor relationships, coordinate parallel run strategies, and oversee data migration and cutover planning to minimize disruption during go-live.

Business Development & Sales

  • Identify, qualify, and pursue new ETRM consulting opportunities by leveraging existing client relationships, industry networks, and conference presence. Maintain an active pipeline and contribute to practice revenue targets.
  • Lead or co-lead pursuits from initial discovery through proposal submission and presentation. Develop scope, staffing models, and fee structures for ETRM implementation engagements in collaboration with practice leadership.
  • Act as a trusted advisor to existing clients by identifying expansion opportunities, surfacing adjacent needs such as platform upgrades, regulatory readiness, and integration modernization, and translating those needs into well-scoped follow-on work.
  • Contribute to thought leadership including white papers, conference presentations, platform comparison frameworks, and point-of-view content reflecting ETRM market trends and the energy transition.
  • Represent the practice at industry events such as CTRM World, E/CTRM Connect, DistribuTECH, and EIA conferences, and maintain relationships with ETRM platform vendors and system integrators to stay ahead of market developments and co-selling opportunities.

About the Company

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International Business Machines Corp

At IBM, you don’t need a degree to shape the future. Just bring your skills—and your passion. To build. To design. To code. To consult. To think along with clients and sell. To make markets. To invent. To collaborate.

Not just to do something better, but to attempt things you've never thought possible. To lead in this new era of technology and solve some of the world's most challenging problems. Let’s get to work.

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Computer/IT Services
FOUNDED
1911
WEBSITE
http://www-03.ibm.com/employment/us/