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Energy Trading Consulting - Consultant

The oil and gas industry is facing unprecedented challenges through volatile energy prices driven by changes to the geopolitical landscape, supply and demand imbalances, and evolving consumption patterns due to global economic development and the energy transition. This creates an opportunity for the sector to pivot to a long-term strategy that helps address these challenges. Energy markets will be a critical enabler of an efficient energy transition that includes optimization of existing supply, modernizing underlying technology to support the transition and enable the rapid creation of renewable product markets.

The opportunity

Recognizing the need of our clients, we are building an energy trading team to help our clients optimize current supply, embrace emergent technology such as AI, launch new renewable product and further navigate the transition. You will be a leader leveraging your talents and experience in mature and robust energy trading markets to help define the future of energy through shaping our strategy, developing new market offerings, and delivering transformational value for our clients that enable the people, process, and technology capabilities for this challenging market model transition. This is a high-profile position that will work with energy leaders and client serving teams across the different EY practices.

Your key responsibilities

As Energy companies explore opportunities to set up and optimize their energy trading function your role will be to enable this journey, undertaking some or all the following responsibilities:

• Define and document trading front, middle and back-office process design

• Creation of new energy trading organizational and operating models

• Assisting in the creation of energy trading benchmarking, surveys, and market scans for new and emerging technology / value creation opportunities

• Helping our clients select the right solutions though Vendor Assessments & Scoring and Fit/Gap Analysis

• Integration and alignment of cross product and cross region commodity trading processes and technologies

• Functional design and requirements gathering across front office, risk, accounting, settlements, logistics, and scheduling

• Ability to work across various stakeholder groups, including strategy, business, data and technical teams

• Development of energy trading functional and technical roadmaps

• Delivering transformation programs

• Creation of new capabilities in emerging technologies, such as AI, IoT, Data and Anayltics

• Assisting in the development of commercial strategies for new energies

Business Development

The purpose of this role is to help position EY for growth within the Oil and Gas sector in a rapidly changing market. As a consultant in our energy trading practice, you will be a key team member, contributing to the growth of our energy trading team and to the development of your peers and yourself. You will be expected to support creation our industry thought leadership, to implement our “Go to Market” strategy, to develop sales collateral and solution material to position EY in the market. You will learn about the various competencies and capabilities within EY. You will be a key player in helping us execute on complex engagements for our clients, assisting them in transforming their businesses as they prepare for the future of the energy industry.

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• A bachelor’s degree in economics, mathematics, finance, or a related field and a minimum of 2 years of work experience

• Preferably some experience working within the oil and gas trading sector

• Technical/Functional ETRM system implementation experience

• Experience in energy commodities and understanding of the commercial aspects of commodity trading, marketing, or procurement

• An understanding of the nuances of executing physical or financial commodity transaction lifecycle

• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to liaise with different business capabilities and vendor teams, with a singular focus on ensuring client excellence

• Strategic thinking and solutioning skills to craft a strong value proposition

• Strong understanding of the current solutions in the market and ability to craft a specific point of view for our clients

• Experience in project delivery, SDLC or DevOps

• A collaborative and teaming mindset

• A curious mindset and desire to learn and grow

• Highly seasoned project management skills and ability to complete multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment

• Exceptional written and oral communication skills on a global basis (including Presentations) as well as listening and interpretation skills

• Willingness to go out of your comfort zone to break new ground in areas of the industry which you are not most familiar

• Willingness to travel up to 60%

Ideally you will also have

• Prior experience in oil an gas

• Experiences across multiple technology platforms

• Functional design and requirements gathering across front office, risk, accounting, settlements, and logistics & scheduling

• Detailed technical and solution design for ETRM (ION products, SAP Commodity Management, etc.)

• Solution Architecture, Data architecture and Infrastructure Performance and Cost Optimization

• Experience with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform

• Experience with SAP Cloud Platform Integration

• Experience with JAVA, OpenComponents, OpenJVS, OpenAVS and SAP ABAP development

• SQL, Python or similar languages

What we look for

• We are looking for people that are passionate consultants, at the top of their game, but who would like to continue to grow their subject matter expertise and help others around them to grow their potential.

What we offer

We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to the business. The base salary range for this job in all geographic locations in the US is $101,500 to $186,000. The salary range for New York City Metro Area, Washington State and California (excluding Sacramento) is $121,700 to $211,300. Individual salaries within those ranges are determined through a wide variety of factors including but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills and geography. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, and a wide range of paid time off options. Join us in our team-led and leader-enabled hybrid model. Our expectation is for most people in external, client serving roles to work together in person 40-60% of the time over the course of an engagement, project or year. Under our flexible vacation policy, you’ll decide how much vacation time you need based on your own personal circumstances. You’ll also be granted time off for designated EY Paid Holidays, Winter/Summer breaks, Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.

• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.

• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.

• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

EY accepts applications for this position on an on-going basis. If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

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