Crude Contracts Specialist | Compliance & Analytics

Energy Transfer; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Transfer is seeking a Contract Administrator to manage crude oil contracts, including administration, analysis, execution, and governance throughout the lifecycle. You will liaise with Crude Commercial, Accounting, Risk Management, Legal, and Operations to ensure accurate capture and timely completion of obligations.

The role involves reviewing terms, coordinating approvals, maintaining documentation in Agiloft, and designing reports and dashboards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience with 2-5 years of relevant job-related experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience with 5-8 years of relevant job-related experience.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience with 8+ years of relevant job-related experience.

Responsibilities

• Review, analyze, and administer crude oil commercial agreements.
• Independently own and administer assigned assets and agreements of moderate complexity.
• Review commercial and operational terms, including quality specifications, delivery obligations, title transfer, and payment provisions.
• Coordinate agreement preparation, approval, execution, and DocuSign routing with Commercial and Legal.
• Maintain contracts, amendments, notices, approvals, and supporting documentation in Agiloft and other systems.
• Monitor contractual obligations, including volume commitments, deadlines, renewals, notice requirements, and termination rights.
• Communicate relevant contract terms and obligations to Accounting, Scheduling, Operations, and Settlement teams.
• Interpret contracts and conduct related contract research.
• Support accruals, settlement inquiries, audits, and dispute resolution.
• Resolve routine contractual, operational, and settlement issues with limited oversight.
• Identify and escalat contractual risks, exceptions, and compliance concerns.
• Monitor force majeure events, insurance requirements, indemnity provisions, and contractual notices.
• Support counterparty onboarding and due diligence activities.
• Populate monthly close notes and communicate relevant contract activity to accounting.
• Maintain accurate contract data, records, and dashboards.
• Design, develop, and maintain reports, dashboards, and metrics.
• Participate in system integrations, testing, process improvements, and enhancement initiatives.
• Use AI, reporting, and contract management tools to improve efficiency and support contract administration activities.
• Identify and implement opportunities to automate workflows, improve data quality, and enhance business processes.
• Support joint venture administration by coordinating meetings; preparing agendas, board materials, minutes, written consents, and notices, and maintaining governance records.
• Monitor joint venture governance requirements and coordinate the timely completion of action items, approvals, reporting obligations, deadlines, and other deliverables.
• Provide day-to-day guidance and training to Contract Associates.

Skills

Contract administration

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Agiloft

SAP

DocuSign

Job description

Energy Transfer is seeking a Contract Administrator to manage crude oil contracts, including administration, analysis, execution, and governance throughout the lifecycle. You will liaise with Crude Commercial, Accounting, Risk Management, Legal, and Operations to ensure accurate capture and timely completion of obligations.

The role involves reviewing terms, coordinating approvals, maintaining documentation in Agiloft, and designing reports and dashboards.