Confirmations Analyst

About the Role

NRG is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Risk Confirmation Analyst to join its Transaction Control team in Houston, TX. This role supports NRG’s wholesale and retail energy portfolios by ensuring accurate and timely processing, review, execution, and maintenance of trade confirmations. The position requires close collaboration with Front Office Trading, Scheduling, Risk Management, Legal, Credit, Accounting, Settlements, and Commercial Operations teams to ensure transactions are properly captured, controlled, and reported.

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely and accurate entry of transactions into ETRM and risk management systems.
• Verify trade economics, contract terms, pricing structures, delivery obligations, and transaction attributes.
• Review executed confirmations to ensure transactions are booked in accordance with contractual terms.
• Maintain confirmation records within applicable document management systems.
• Support reconciliation processes involving trade populations, confirmations, emissions products, renewable products, and intercompany transactions.
• Monitor trade amendments, novations, terminations, and other lifecycle events to ensure accurate system representation.
• Partner with Legal, Credit, and Commercial teams to resolve contractual discrepancies and booking issues.
• Participate in SOX compliance activities, internal audits, and external audit requests.

Requirements

• University undergraduate degree in finance, accounting, economics, or related field—or equivalent relevant experience.
• Minimum of 3-4 years of professional experience in confirmations, commodity operations, trading operations, risk, accounting, settlements, or financial analysis.
• Foundational understanding of financial statements and credit risk metrics.

Skills

• Knowledge of trade confirmations, commodities operations, energy trading operations, or middle-office functions.
• Strong understanding of process controls, including the ability to follow documented procedures, identify discrepancies, support reconciliations, and escalate issues timely to maintain accurate and controlled transaction records.
• Demonstrated curiosity and willingness to adopt emerging technologies, including AI tools and automation platforms that validate outputs for accuracy.
• Innovative thinker who is a team player, proactive, self-motivated, and able to see the bigger picture.
• Strong organizational and time management skills to handle multiple assignments independently.
• Excellent attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Schedule

• Hybrid work schedule: 4 days on-site, 1 day remote (Friday).
• Open office environment.
• Some overtime required as special projects arise.

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. Employees may be subject to periodic random drug testing and post-accident or reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing, as permitted by law and applicable collective bargaining agreements.