Entry-Level Commodity Pricing Analyst

Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores Inc. is seeking an entry-level Pricing & Risk Analyst to support daily valuation and market-risk processes for physical and financial commodity portfolios.

You will maintain market data and forward curves, complete nightly marks, and investigate pricing exceptions to ensure accurate valuations. The role offers exposure to energy trading and risk management systems, collaboration with Trading, Risk, Accounting, and IT, and opportunities to contribute to

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Up to two years of experience in commodity trading, market data, risk, or analytics.
• Familiarity with RightAngle or energy trading systems is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Maintain daily market, forward, and basis curves in RightAngle.
• Gather, validate, and upload prices from exchanges, brokers, price-reporting agencies, and other approved market-data sources.
• Complete nightly marks accurately and within established deadlines.
• Review curve movements and pricing inputs for completeness, reasonableness, and consistency with observed market activity.
• Identify and investigate stale, missing, duplicated, or unusual prices, and coordinate the timely resolution of exceptions.
• Set up exchange traded instruments in RightAngle and ZEMA
• Assist with sourcing new pricing services as required.
• Support the valuation of physical and financial commodity positions, including location, quality, timing, and transportation basis adjustments.
• Assist with researching and resolving valuation differences across systems, reports, and business functions.
• Maintain clear documentation and audit support for price sources, curve methodologies, manual adjustments, exceptions, and approvals.
• Follow established pricing controls, escalation procedures, and data-governance standards.
• Work closely with Trading, Risk, Accounting, Operations, and IT to resolve pricing and valuation questions.
• Support process improvements, automation initiatives, system enhancements, and the onboarding of new products, markets, and data sources.
• Provide backup support for other daily pricing, futures, and risk-control activities as needed.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Data reconciliation

Strong communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in business finance or related field

Tools

Power Query

SQL

Python

Excel VBA

Job description

Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores Inc. is seeking an entry-level Pricing & Risk Analyst to support daily valuation and market-risk processes for physical and financial commodity portfolios.

You will maintain market data and forward curves, complete nightly marks, and investigate pricing exceptions to ensure accurate valuations. The role offers exposure to energy trading and risk management systems, collaboration with Trading, Risk, Accounting, and IT, and opportunities to contribute to