Sr. Trade Control Analyst

About the role

The Sr. Trade Control Analyst will play a crucial role in ensuring the accuracy of trade bookings and maintaining accurate data and reporting for the Risk team in Houston, TX.

Responsibilities

• Daily trade reconciliation, including reconciling against internal risk limits, trade modifications & Day One PnL.
• Daily Price Curve Validation.
• Daily Exchange & FCM Limit reconciliation.
• EOD trader checkout process.
• Daily communication in support of the Commercial Trading team e.g. technical support, trade flow & amendments.
• Working with Traders, Risk, Accounting and IT on non-standard trade requests & new curve pricing setup.
• Analyze trade controls reports to ensure compliance with risk management and trading controls policies.
• Management & Enforcement of the DOA & Risk Policy.
• Back-up for the daily Confirmations process for OTC Counterparties and Brokers.
• Back-up for ISO, Exchange, & ETRM privileging and access.
• Proactively develop strategies or recommendations to improve trade control reporting operations.
• Afforded opportunities to assist with ad-hoc risk projects (Market Risk, QRM, Credit).

Requirements

• Strong conceptual and analytical skills with the willingness to proactively investigate issues and escalate when required.
• Expertise in the use of VBA, SQL, Python (or other data analysis packages) to conduct analyses of large data sets and automate above referenced excel reporting as needed.
• A detail-oriented mind-set, being able to readily identify discrepancies and deficiencies that should be acted upon and escalated.
• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills, both oral and written, as the candidate will be the primary point of contact for Commercial, Settlements, Accounting & IT when it comes to trade booking.
• A proactive attitude and willingness to learn new skills.
• Excellent time management ability to clearly identify those needs which must be met within defined timelines vs. those which are flexible.

Qualifications

• Prior exposure to U.S. wholesale power markets, and how market participants use.

Skills

• Strong Excel skills, allowing them to reconcile datasets for discrepancies and present data in a way that can be easily communicated.

Benefits

Talen Energy offers an exceptional benefits program to its employees, including comprehensive health, dental, vision, prescription plans, life insurance, and disability insurance. Employees are eligible to participate in Talen Energy’s 401(k) plan. Talen Energy also provides competitive vacation and sick time to its employees.

Pay

Compensation and benefits are competitive and commensurate with experience.

Schedule

The position is full-time.