What are the responsibilities and job description for the Trading Analyst position at Energy Transfer Family of Partnerships?
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Summary:
The Trading Analyst will play a critical role in supporting the crude oil marketing and trading team. This position serves as a bridge between traders and key support functions, ensuring smooth execution of strategies, second-layer diligence, and facilitating optimized workflows. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, analytically strong, and eager to learn the dynamics of a crude oil commercial organization.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide ETRM support to the trading team. Ensure that trade details, pricing models, and risk exposures are accurately communicated and reconciled across teams.
- Assist with ad-hoc research projects and market analysis to support broader commercial strategy.
- Build and improve tools (Excel, Python, VBA, or other platforms) to support trading activities and enhance efficiency across the marketing organization.
- Act as a point of coordination between trading and other groups including Risk, Operations, Accounting, and Scheduling.
- Partner directly with traders to provide timely analysis, pricing support, and second-layer diligence for trade ideas and strategies.
Requirements:
Education and/or Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job duty satisfactorily. The requirements for this position are listed below:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Business, or related field.
- Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills.
- High proficiency in Excel; familiarity with data analysis tools (Python, SQL, VBA, Power BI, etc.) is a plus.
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate effectively with diverse teams.
- Detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple priorities under tight deadlines.
- Demonstrated interest in energy markets, commodities, or trading preferred.
Required experience is commensurate with the selected job level:
- The Specialist/Analyst level requires a Bachelor’s degree and 2-5 years of relevant job related experience
- The Senior Specialist/Analyst level requires a Bachelor’s degree and 5-8 years of relevant job related experience
- The Lead Specialist/Analyst level requires a Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of relevant job related experience
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
- Usually, normal office working conditions.
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time due to prolonged periods of sitting or standing.
- Occasional overnight travel may be required.
- Occasional visits to industrial/manufacturing settings, which may include exposure to various materials and chemicals, as well as extreme temperature conditions and loud machinery, and require appropriate personal protective equipment.