EY Energy Trading Senior Consultant 

United States, Texas, Houston 

147039080

This position can be anywhere in the country.

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.

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

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.

• 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.