Energy Risk Manager for North America

ecconsultants; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

46 days off / year

Great Place To Work certified

Flexible Teal culture

Job summary

E&C Consultants is seeking an Energy Risk Manager to analyze global energy markets for North American clients and to advise hedging decisions. You will use our ePoint system to generate recommendations, execute actions, and report market evolutions to clients and colleagues.

You will also assist with administrative execution of fix/unfix decisions and review OTC price quotes to negotiate better prices. A strong analytical mindset and ownership of your work are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, energy, business management or similar.
• C1 level in English.
• Experience in the energy market is a plus; we provide full internal training on energy and our way of working upon arrival.
• A keen interest in the energy markets is key.
• The ups and downs of markets give you a kick instead of paralysing you.
• You are well organized, used to prioritize tasks in order of importance and urgency.
• You take accountability for the ins and outs beyond your own role; you can work independently, set goals for yourself and others and give substance to them.
• You dare to take decisions, act adequately and quickly, and are not afraid of taking calculated risks to obtain an advantage.
• You are proficient at analysing data and synthesizing information for clients and colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Analyze global energy markets daily for North America clients.
• Use ePoint system to generate hedge recommendations for clients.
• Evaluate and decide which recommendations to execute.
• Execute recommendations and generate client messages.
• Comment market evolutions and recommendations to clients and consultants.
• Assist clients with administrative execution of fix or unfix decisions.
• Evaluate OTC quotes and negotiate with suppliers to obtain better prices.
• Track activity in ePoint so Data Analysts can update client information.
• On low hedging days, perform fundamental energy market analysis for reports and articles.

Skills

C1 level in English

Data analysis

Accountability

Independent work

Education

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, energy, business management or similar

Job description

E&C advises a portfolio of large international companies on their risk management for buying electricity and natural gas. Every day, these customers have to take decisions on whether they will fix, not fix or unfix forward natural gas and electricity prices. E&C sets up a risk management strategy for these clients and gives pro-active advice on those hedging decisions. We are searching for an energy risk managerto enforce our team.Theenergy risk managerplays a key role in analysing the markets and giving advice to clients on fixing and unfixing decisions.

Why E&C Consultants?

You can read more details here: Becoming an E&C er, but in big lines:

• We are a Great Place To Work®certified company - employee satisfaction stamped by our staff

• We provide Growth Opportunities - as E&C continues to expand, you grow with us

• We implemented a Flexible and Empowering Culture - we pioneer with ourunique Teal management style, which includes Empowerment, Ownership, Self-Management, Integrity, Transparency and Trust

• We offer 46 days off / year (yes, 46!) regardless of the country you live & work in

How does Energy Risk Manager work look like?

• Every day you will make an analysis of the global energy markets and assess what they mean for our clients in North America

• Our ePoint system generates a list of possible hedge recommendations to clients

• You run through this list and decide whether to make the recommendations or not

• You execute these recommendations using our hedge recommendation tool that generates messages for clients

• You comment market evolutions and recommendations to clients and consultants

• For some clients, you will assist them in the administrative execution of their decisions to fix or unfix

• You assist clients that receive OTC price quotes to evaluate them and negotiate with suppliers to obtain better prices

• You track all your activity in our ePoint system so that our Data Analysts can collect and update a clients’ information in our system

• On days with low hedging activity, you will make fundamental analysis of energy markets that results in text material that can be used in market reports, white papers, blog articles, video’s, podcasts, etc.

What makes you a perfect match?

Expertise is more easy to acquire than attitude. Therefore, at E&C we hire personalities, not just CV’s. There will be a match if:

• You have a Bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, energy, business management or similar

• C1 level in English

• Experience in the energy market is a plus but we are providing full internal training on energy and our way of working upon arrival

• A keen interest in theenergy markets is key though!

• The ups and downs of markets give you a kick instead of paralysing you

• You are well organized, used to prioritize tasks in order of importance and urgency

• You take accountability for the ins and outs beyond your own role; you can work independently, set goals for yourself and others and give substance to them

• You dare to take decisions, act adequately and quickly, and are not afraid of taking (calculated) risks to obtain a certain advantage.

• You are proficient at analysing data and synthetizing the information for clients and colleagues