Trade Analyst I

Job Title: Trade Analyst I
Location: Houston TX 77042 - 100% onsite
Duration: 12 months contract

Job Description:
The Trade Analyst helps the trade team make confident business decisions by ensuring that positions and physical movements are accurately captured across our system and workflow.
The Trade Analyst works with Trading, Scheduling, Commercial Business Services, and Risk to improve deal entry accuracy and resolve discrepancies.

Responsibilities May Include:
Enter trader deals for the US trading desk. Confirm daily trades with trader recaps and broker confirmations to ensure trades are accurately captured and recorded into the company s trading system.
Monitor internal transactions involving the US Trading team and ensure in-house deals are entered promptly when required.
Work to identify and resolve pricing, volume, and contractual discrepancies.
Timely address issues identified in the Discrepancy Error Workbench, coordinating with Trading and Scheduling to resolve.

Required Qualifications:
Associated degree
Proficient in Excel

Preferred Qualifications:
Familiarity with trade capture systems used by the organization (S4, Trade66)
1 or more years of experience in Commercial or Commercial Support Function
Detail-oriented with Client on accuracy and continual improvement
Ability to perform under pressure with daily deadlines and deliverables
Analytical skills to derive and explain anomalies in data
Documentation skills to record and report on findings to the business
Strong interpersonal skills and proven written & verbal communication abilities
Ability to work with and be part of several different teams in an open trade floor environment.

In Take Notes:
1 for Distillates trading and 1 for Gasoline trading.
Each person will support a team of 6-8 traders.
Bachelor's degree is preferred, so the person could convert to FTE in the future.
This role is an opportunity to learn the energy trading business and springboard into other roles within the Commercial business unit - scheduling, risk analyst, compliance, etc.