Natural Gas Fundamentals Analyst to Director

2 days ago

Spring, United States Optimus - People. Solutions. Delivered. Full time

A key Optimus natural gas client located in Spring, Tx and IN OFFICE daily is looking for a Quantitative/Fundamentals professional with natural gas, NGL and/or LNG experience.

Our client will consider professionals from Analyst level to Director level.


Qualified candidates, please send your resume to Jennifer.Hibbetts@optimus-us.com or your Optimus recruiter.


Job Duties & Responsibilities

  • Drive the design, development, and implementation of quantitative solutions to assess portfolio valuation and risk, including stochastic modeling, VaR, parametric VaR, VaR backtesting, scenario stress testing, liquidity analysis, and forward curve modeling
  • Develop Supply and Demand models for natural gas, LNG, power, crude oil and NGLs
  • Build and maintain natural gas pipeline flow models to anticipate constraints points, price dislocations, and arbitrage opportunities
  • Develop, calibrate, backtest, and maintain asset pricing models to assess fair economic value of real options, such as power and LNG tolling agreements, transportation contracts, natural gas storage capacity, LNG diversion optionality, and other structured energy products.
  • Coordinate with Risk and Trading teams to interpret, analyze, and model complex portfolio risk, including long-term structured contracts with imbedded optionality to ensure accurate valuation and risk assessment utilizing Monte Carlo simulations and/or closed-form solutions
  • Build and maintain Lower 48 natural gas production model for all key basins, evaluating initial production rates, rig counts, frac spreads, and decline curves
  • Build tools to manipulate large data sets and enable data sharing across Risk, Trading, and Marketing
  • Support digitalization and automation to facilitate and accelerate the flow of information across the business and minimize manual tasks
  • Provide direct and indirect supervision of personnel, participating in recruiting, development and training
  • Collaborate with internal teams for integrating the market point of view into strategic initiatives

Job Specific Skills

  • 3+ years Experience in a quantitative and/or fundamental analyst role within a financial or energy trading organization, with a comprehensive understanding of trading, risk, and financial modeling, derivatives, options, and hedging strategies

For Director level: Minimum: 12 - 15 years related work experience in natural gas/LNG Industry

  • Excellent quantitative skills and knowledge in statistical methods, operational research, stochastic modeling, and Monte Carlo simulation techniques
  • Strong foundation in the valuation of energy derivative products, including forwards and futures contracts, volatility, correlations, basis markets, and simple and exotic options
  • Capabilities for modeling structured energy transactions such as natural gas storage assets, pipeline transportation, gas processing agreements, heat rate options, and power transmission
  • Support pre-deal evaluations and computation of performance metrics for trade books incorporating risk characteristics
  • Experience in coding languages with enable data gathering and transformation such as Python, SAS, or MATLAB
  • Familiarity with ETRM trading systems such as Endur, Allegro, ZEMA, etc.
  • Advanced Excel skills such as pivot tables, lookups, and VBA macros
  • Previous experience with quantitative risk tools (i.e. FEA, Lacima, etc.)
  • Strong analytical skills with experience in building models and forecasting
  • Advanced reasoning and problem solving, strategic thinking capability with excellent communication skills to effectively convey complex ideas to internal and external stakeholders
  • In-depth understanding of the natural gas, power, crude oil, NGL and LNG markets, including value chains an infrastructures
  • Work with Origination, Risk Management, Trading and Marketing to produce and interpret modeled valuations and to respond to intra-day trading requests to price and evaluate structured transactions
  • Ability to provide on-the-job training, performance assessment, coaching, motivation, and career development to employees
  • Knowledge of administrative procedures and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, leadership technique, and the coordination of people and resources
  • Ability to work under pressure with limited supervision, to formulate and articulate solutions, and to explain and defend modeling assumptions and output

Education

Minimum: Bachelor’s degree in quantitative discipline such as Financial Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, or related science and engineering fields - from accredited university

Preferred: Master’s degree in quantitative field- from accredited university - Finance, Economics, Marketing, Business Management or related field

Experience

Hands on experience building and operating quantitative and stochastic models

Programming experience in Python, R, SQL, MATLAB, or similar

Knowledge of portfolio risk management principles

Knowledge of global energy markets, local regulatory agencies, public utility commissions, regional transmission grids, and natural gas pipeline systems



Per our client's specifications, candidates are required to be US Citizens, Green Card holders, or independently authorized to work in the US . We are unable to provide H1 visa sponsorship at this time

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