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NYMEX Natural Gas Trader

TC Energy · Houston, TX · 3 wk ago
FinanceFull-time

About the Role

TC Energy Marketing (TCEM) is expanding its commodity and regional coverage capabilities to embrace risk, enhance returns, and empower innovation within the Gas Marketing team. As a NYMEX Natural Gas Trader, you will collaborate with the TC Energy Trading & Marketing team to design, develop, and implement financial gas strategies that ensure sustainable and scalable success in support of infrastructure ambitions.

Your role will involve trading natural gas futures, swaps, and options, along with leveraging analytical skills in fundamentals and quantitative price curve analysis. Knowledge of peripheral products such as Power, natural gas liquids, and international gas markets will be beneficial as the portfolio grows.

Responsibilities

  • Intentionally and methodically deploy Value at Risk (VAR) across tradable NYMEX Gas products through sophisticated and balanced trading strategies.
  • Price and implement option strategies for both external and internal customers.
  • Leverage physical insights from a growing L48 coverage platform to enhance portfolio returns.
  • Support the ongoing optimization of portfolio assets and positions to maximize earnings.
  • Actively contribute to the development and evolution of deep, broad, and proprietary market insights.
  • Collaborate cross-commodity with the Power & Liquids trading desks to deepen trade conviction.
  • Regularly interact with and support Origination teams for Natural Gas and Decarbonization initiatives.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Finance, or Engineering.
  • 5+ years of experience in trading with proven profit performance (determined based on role level).
  • Ability to articulate fundamentals driving the current and future natural gas market (Supply/Demand/Infrastructure) and make decisions based on this information.
  • Ability to conceptualize and mathematically apply risk/reward propositions to transaction decisions, expressed through futures, swaps, and options strategies.
  • Deep knowledge of energy contracts such as Futures, OTC, Options, shaped contracts, collars, and other derivatives.

About Our Business

TC Energy is a leader in North American energy infrastructure, spanning Canada, the U.S., and Mexico. Our team connects the world to the energy it needs, moving over 30% of the cleaner-burning natural gas used across the continent. We complement this with strategic ownership and low-risk investments in power generation, fueling industries and generating affordable, reliable, and sustainable power while enabling LNG exports to global markets.

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