Enery Risk Manager / Trader (North America)

E&C Group; Kentucky; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

E&C Consultants in the United States is seeking an energy risk manager to analyze markets and advise clients on fixing and unfixing forward energy and gas prices. The role blends quantitative analysis with proactive client guidance in a hybrid/remote environment based in Kentucky or Ohio.

You will use our ePoint platform to generate hedge ideas, select options, and communicate recommendations to clients and consultants.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in finance, energy, or business management.
• Experience in energy markets is a plus; internal training provided.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Willing to work hybrid/remote within US, ideally Kentucky or Ohio.

Responsibilities

• Analyze global energy markets daily for North American clients.
• Use ePoint to generate hedge recommendations for clients.
• Review hedge options and decide on client actions.
• Execute recommendations using hedge tool and communicate to clients.
• Comment market evolutions and recommendations to clients and consultants.
• Assist clients with administrative execution of fix/unfix decisions.
• Evaluate OTC quotes and negotiate with suppliers to obtain better prices.
• Track all activity in the ePoint system for data engineers.
• On days with low hedging activity, perform fundamental energy market analysis for market reports.

Skills

Market analysis

Data analysis

Hedge recommendations

Independent work

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Finance/Energy/Business

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 manager to enforce our team. The energy risk manager plays a key role in analysing the markets and giving advice to clients on fixing and unfixing decisions.

This role is hybrid / remote, however our future colleague must be based within one of our US entities: Kentucky or Ohio.

Why E&C Consultants?

You can read more details here: Becoming an E&Cer, 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 our unique Teal management style, which includes Empowerment, Ownership, Self-Management, Integrity, Transparency and Trust


• We offer 46 days off / year (yes, 46!)

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


• 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 the energy 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

If you are still here and reading, you must be really interested.