Description
An opportunity for a Gas Trading Analyst has arisen at a Global Energy company in Reading. The exciting opportunity has come about within the Europe Gas Marketing (EGM) Division whose role is to market gas production and manage LNG imports to be able to deliver optimisation and trading value from the wider European portfolio.WHATS ON OFFER:
LOCATION : Reading
CONTRACT: 6 Months
RATE: £400
The Gas Trading Analyst (EGM) has two primary roles:
- Firstly to produce insightful analysis on the European gas markets in order to enable EGM to maximise the value from BG's European assets;
- Secondly to identify and propose profitable asset or trading strategies.
Key Accountabilities
- Produce daily and monthly analysis of UK and European gas markets, covering supply and demand, including gas storage, LNG, pipeline flows, the weather and macro influences;
- Identify and propose trading strategies for EGM to pursue. These can be proprietary trading strategies based on the individual's market insights or 'asset' based strategies that would require BG to access physical pipelines, locations or storage for them to be fulfilled;
- Develop existing and new analytical tools that can assess location spreads, time spreads and cross commodity spreads (gas, LNG, coal, power and oil);
- Produce and present analysis to the leadership within GEMS on specific topics or projects;
- Interface with BG's LNG trading and market analysis to share information and insights on the European and LNG markets;
- Provide ad hoc analysis as requested both within the team and by GEMS;
- Manage EGM's gas storage modelling and valuations;
- Maintain EGM's access to analytical information from external sources and key databases
The Successful Candidate will have:
- In-depth experience of gas market analysis is essential;
- Strong commercial skills and a desire to help BG deliver value for shareholders;
- An innovator with a track record of identifying and gaining approval for trading strategies;
- Advanced Excel and quantitative modelling skills, with proven aptitude for developing new and/or more efficient analytical models (including Visual Basic);
- Experience in producing papers and presentations for senior management;
- An individual who will collaborate, challenge and influence a wide range of EGM, GEMS and BG stakeholders;
- A "hands-on", disciplined self-starter who is confident working under pressure and with potentially ambiguous sources of information.
If this sounds of interest please get in touch with your latest CV
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