Job Title:

Senior Natural Gas Analyst

Job Description:

The Senior Natural Gas Market Analyst is part of the US Natural Gas and Power Team, delivering advanced analytics projects for US Gas and Power trading desk.

Main Responsibilities:

• Assist the traders with ad hoc market analysis / insights.
• Build and maintain tools/dashboards to assist traders in their decisions making
• Develop S&D models and analyze natural gas balances with a focus on the Gulf, Texas and Southeastern US.
• Identifies the right set of models and develops the right code / package to execute them
• Evaluates the validity of the model (both scientifically as well as from a business perspective)
• Maintain S&D forecast models, ensuring data accuracy.
• Actively contribute to the development of a Group-wide fundamentals data warehouse.
• Articulate insights and recommendations (based on model output) to respective key stakeholders.
• Communicating technical jargon in plain English to colleagues and with traders.
• Prepare various reports and analysis for publishing internally
• Develop models and forecasting tools for regional supply and demand.
• Be willing to assist in the pricing and analysis of structured deals from time to time.

Profile:

The ideal candidate has strong background in energy markets analysis, forecasting models, quantitative modelization and has applied those skills in solving real world problems, particularly in the natural gas markets. The required expertise include (but not limited to):

• Proficiency in Statistics & Econometrics: Time series analysis, Modelization, Forecasting models design, Backtesting,
• Proven experience in building and managing S&D balances for regional and national US natural gas markets

Minimum requirements

• A minimum of 5 years in a similar role in the natural gas markets.
• University degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or Quantitative Finance.
• In depth knowledge of analytics tools and technologies: SAS, R, SPSS, PowerBI, Tableau, Qlickview, Matlab, Hadoop; awareness of Agile / Scrum ways of working.
• Proficient in several computing languages such as Python, C/C++, Java, Linux, UML, SQL, Hive, HTML, CSS, JavaScript.
• Microsoft Office tools: expert level in Excel (VBA) & PowerPoint.
• Excellent interpersonal communication and influencing skills.
• Excellent presentation skills.
• Ability to work in total autonomy
• Curious and Proactive, rigorous and meticulous.
• Strong team spirit.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken