Senior Trade Back Office Specialist

Eneco; Rotterdam; On-site; EUR 71,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Gross annual salary €71,000–€100,000

FlexBudget + 8% holiday allowance

Bonus or profit sharing depending on a

Growth and development opportunities

Job summary

Join Eneco Energy Trade as a Trade Back Office Specialist in Rotterdam. You’ll own end-to-end trade processing from contract setup to financial settlement, ensuring data quality and compliance while supporting traders and finance colleagues.

You’ll manage complex contracts, register costs and revenues, monitor payments, and push continuous improvements in processes, controls and systems to keep the back office reliable and future-proof.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in finance or related field.
• At least 3 years of experience in a similar role.
• Experience within a corporate environment and/or energy trading.
• Affinity with large datasets and translating them into effective control processes.
• Knowledge of financial controls and compliance frameworks (e.g. JSOX).
• Strong communication skills in Dutch and English.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring complete, accurate and timely trade and financial administration.
• Managing and monitoring end-to-end operational processes.
• Identifying, analyzing and resolving discrepancies.
• Prioritizing daily work and handling ad hoc requests effectively.
• Managing expectations of stakeholders across trading, finance and beyond.
• Building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Driving continuous improvement of processes, controls and systems.
• Safeguarding data quality, compliance and reporting standards.

Skills

Data handling

Financial controls & compliance (JSOX)

Dutch & English communication

Trading / finance context

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in finance or related field

Job description

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• Operate at the core of Eneco Energy Trade, ensuring full control over complex trading flows
• Own end-to-end processes and actively improve systems, data quality and compliance
• Work closely with traders, finance and external stakeholders in a high-impact, dynamic environment

Why choose Eneco?

The world of energy is changing rapidly. As a leader in the energy transition, Eneco develops new ways to generate, store and manage sustainable energy. This requires a trading organization that is accurate, fast and fully in control.

Eneco Energy Trade (EET) is at the heart of this. It manages all commodity positions and connects trading activities to financial outcomes. In this environment, your role is crucial. You ensure that transactions are correct, cash flows are controlled and risks are managed.

You work in a company that is large enough to make real impact, while being part of a team where people know each other and work closely together. You are trusted to take ownership, bring ideas and continuously improve our way of working. At the same time, you directly contribute to Eneco’s ambition to become climate neutral by 2035

What You’ll Do

As a Trade Back Office Specialist, you ensure that energy trading activities are processed accurately from start to finish. You manage the full lifecycle of trades, from contract setup to financial settlement, while maintaining control over data quality and compliance. You work closely with traders, finance and other internal stakeholders to make sure transactions are correctly reflected in the financial administration and that cash flows are monitored and reconciled.

In your day-to-day work, you handle complex contracts, confirm trades, register costs and revenues, and monitor incoming and outgoing payments. At the same time, you keep a strong overview of processes and identify where improvements can be made. Because the environment is constantly changing, with increasing automation and new products, you play an active role in optimizing workflows and strengthening controls. In doing so, you help ensure that the back office remains reliable, efficient and future proof.

Is this about you?

You are structured, analytical and comfortable in a dynamic environment where priorities can shift quickly. You take ownership of your work and understand the importance of accuracy and control in a trading environment. At the same time, you collaborate easily with others and communicate clearly with different stakeholders.

You also bring:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree (finance-related or strong financial component);
• At least 3 years of experience in a similar role;
• Experience within a corporate environment and/or energy trading;
• Affinity with large datasets and translating them into effective control processes;
• Knowledge of financial controls and compliance frameworks (e.g. JSOX);
• Strong communication skills in Dutch and English;
• Currently living in the Netherlands.

Even if you don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. Motivation, learning ability and mindset matter just as much as experience.

You’ll be responsible for

• Ensuring complete, accurate and timely trade and financial administration;
• Managing and monitoring end-to-end operational processes;
• Identifying, analyzing and resolving discrepancies;
• Prioritizing daily work and handling ad hoc requests effectively;
• Managing expectations of stakeholders across trading, finance and beyond;
• Building strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders;
• Driving continuous improvement of processes, controls and systems;
• Safeguarding data quality, compliance and reporting standards.

This is where you’ll work

You will join the Trade Back Office team within Eneco Energy Trade, consisting of around 8 professionals with different areas of expertise.

The team works closely together and has a central role in the financial processing of trading activities. This means you interact frequently with traders, finance and other departments across Eneco. Everyone takes ownership of their domain, while also contributing to team-wide improvements and projects.

The environment is dynamic and constantly evolving. No two days are the same, and you are continuously challenged to improve processes while maintaining high standards in quality and control.

What We Have To Offer

• Gross annual salary between €71,000 and €100,000 Including FlexBudget, 8% holiday allowance, and depending on your role a bonus or collective profit sharing.
• FlexBudget Including FlexBudget, 8% holiday allowance, and depending on your role a bonus or collective profit sharing. Have it paid out, use it to buy extra holiday days or save it up for something nice, it's up to you.
• A job that makes an impact on the climate. Including FlexBudget, 8% holiday allowance, and depending on your role a bonus or collective profit sharing. Have it paid out, use it to buy extra holiday days or save it up for something nice, it's up to you.
• Every opportunity to improve yourself. At Eneco, your dreams and ambitions take centre stage. You have all the space you want to improve yourself. Anyone who wants to grow will get the opportunity.

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Here’s what you get from us

Why would you, as a technician, choose a job at Eneco?

The energy transition is already in full swing, but Eneco wants to accelerate it. Over the coming years, we will be rapidly making all our assets more sustainable. We are phasing out gas, constructing more wind farms and solar parks, expanding our district heating grid and developing innovative storage solutions for heat and energy.

The choice for climate neutrality means looking at all the opportunities and challenges that exist. That mindset is everywhere, in all that we do.

Work Where Everyone Matters

When you choose a career at Eneco, you choose ambition, growth, and opportunity in an environment where everyone matters. You’re given the space to develop yourself and to do your work in a way that suits you. We believe that different perspectives, nationalities, and backgrounds make us stronger, which is why we foster an open, safe and inclusive culture. Naturally, we also prioritize a healthy work-life balance, flexible working hours, and the option to work from home when your role allows it. If you have a physical or sensory disability, we will work with you to find the right adjustments so you can perform your job well.

This is how you build your own future and a sustainable future at the same time. Together with 4,000 colleagues, each with their own talents and ideas, you work on our shared mission: speeding up the energy transition. We help customers become more sustainable faster, create innovative solutions, and seize new opportunities. Will you join us?

The phases of our application procedure

Want to know more about this job function?

Would you like to know more about this vacancy? Thijs Pieterse, our Team Manager Backoffice Operations Finance, will be happy to answer your questions via [e-mail]

For more information about the application process, please contact our Recruiter Kevin Wouters via 0640971932 or [e-mail]

The intention of this job vacancy is to find a new colleague for Eneco. The details may not be used for marketing purposes.