Gas Operator

Reporting directly to the Energy Operations Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for accurate daily nominating and scheduling gas positions across various European hubs, grids and pipelines and liaise with Traders to update and monitor position as appropriate.

RESPONSIBILITIES & ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Responsible for accurate daily nominating and scheduling gas positions across various European hubs, grids and pipelines including UK, Germany, Netherlands, and Belgium within deadlines
• Booking/re-booking capacity, to ensure portfolio capacity requirements are met. Some involvement in long-term bookings
• Daily confirmation and reconciliation of beach swap volumes
• Update and monitor positions and liaise with Trading team
• Resolve mismatches to ensure all nominations are matched on an hourly and daily basis avoiding imbalances
• Update CVA website with beach delivery data.Review with counterparts and resolve any issues
• Trade support – trade capture and reconciliation in ETRM
• Settlements support – where required, assist with invoice reconciliations
• Confirmations – assist with confirmation of trades and reconciliation
• Ensure compliance with contractual, regulatory and shipper licence obligations.ad here to internal risk policies and update systems and processes as required
• Assist in setting up new business – counterparties, hubs, products, short-haul, supply to sites and changing market operations
• Support and advise Trade control and settlement teams to provide end to end operations for trading
• Ad-hoc requests from different business functions
• Perform UAT (User Acceptance Testing) as necessary for upgrades and project work

SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE

Education & experience

• Undergraduate degree in maths, economics or related discipline
• 2-5 years’ experience working within a physical gas or energy trading environment.
• Experience setting up new markets, products, and systems would be advantageous
• Knowledge and understanding of Gas storage, Power or LNG would be preferred
• Experience of supplying/invoicing end users in UK and Continent
• Carbon Emissions experience (EUA/UKA)
• Experience coding in Python, or another Object-Orientated Programming language is advantageous

Skills

• Strong understanding of daily scheduling controls/processes/procedures and end-to-end trade lifecycle.
• Good understanding of European gas transmission systems and balancing rules is preferable
• Knowledge of another European language would be an advantage
• Achieve high levels of accuracy with all work produced and be detail orientated
• Strong analytical and numerical skills