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Houston, Tx, Us

Houston, Tx, Us

• Produce Daily PnL & Position reporting for Global Oil Trading Business.• Validate price curve setup and accuracy.• Research and resolve any pricing, reporting, or trade input issues.• Review significant transactions and PnL adjustments.• Assist with daily risk reports.• Review PnL and positions daily, provide variance analysis and commentaries.• Build out daily trade validation process in Excel.• Create and automate daily position reporting process utilizing data from Amphora and macros in Excel.• Build validation tools for multiple desks to assist in daily PnL reconciliation process.• Develop process to report all manual PnL adjustments to management along with commentary.

Taylor, Mi, Us

• Weekly and monthly performance income and volumetric forecasting for management. • Verify daily price accuracy within both our accounting and trading systems. • Research and resolve any pricing, reporting, or trade input issues. • Quantify expected income, volume, costs, etc for all new commercial business. • Confirm that all trading activity falls within the company’s risk policy. • Develop annual profit and EBITDA plan for commercial profit center and modify throughout the year as needed. • Work with traders to verify the accuracy of all transactions within the system by referencing statements from brokers like FC Stone and Jefferies. • Create, publish, and distribute daily SolArc and Excel based MTM risk and position change reports. • Setup and maintain new inventory sites within SolArc. • Any/All Ad-Hoc reporting needed regarding current or forecasted load by market, customer, terminal, sales person, etc. • Produce monthly commission reports for all salespeople. • Created and maintain monthly segment performance reports for management to utilize in making business decisions.

• Monthly Gross Margin Commentary Reporting. • Daily position and pricing validations for multiple ISO’s. • Created Access databases to combine data from multiple sources and servers to help ensure data accuracy. New Deal accuracy, No load drops, etc. • Publish daily MTM and position changes for PJM, NEPOOL, CAISO, and MISO markets. • Research and resolve any data issues. • Setup new and maintain current price plans in the load forecasting system. • Any/All Ad-Hoc reporting needed regarding current or forecasted load by market, customer, zone, other.

London, England, Gb

• Responsible for reporting daily US Gasoline mark-to-market based P/L to trading team and key organizational managers. • Monitor US Gasoline market positions and risk metrics to ensure compliance to mandates set by management team. • Maintain a close relationship with trading team in order to ensure proper daily valuation of assets, including proper exposure and forward curve assessment. • Create new product valuation curves as necessary for newly traded products. • Gather, check and publish daily market prices for various Gasoline products and blending components. • Report Monthly forward Mark-to-Market valuation for all US Products books to back office accounting team. • Research and help resolve technical issues with relevant systems. • Develop and produce reports for the trading team as well as the Risk group.

London, England, Gb

• Developed and maintained Credit Warehouse (CreditMart) in order to calculate credit exposures properly for all US and Canadian business. Utilized knowledge of SAP, Endur and Nucleus in this process. • Created and automated reports to assist the margin desk in their daily activities. • Developed many repetitive and adhoc reports for the credit department and commercial to utilize in making smart business decisions. • Utilized knowledge of deal structures and exposure calculations to reconcile discrepancies that may have had with external customers. • Worked closely with the Risk Desk, Accounting and Legal utilizing knowledge of various deal types to calculate termination (liquidation) damages for bankruptcy settlements. (ie. Lehman/Eagle, SemGroup) • Utilized knowledge of deal structures and trading systems to perform VaR (Value at Risk), PFE (Potential Future Exposure) and MTM (Mark to Market) calculations. • Created a bankruptcy calculation process with my knowledge of calculating exposure on different deal types, which they use today. • Instrumental in the new credit system's (EnergyCredit) implementation. Making sure all the data was flowing correctly from CreditMart (the credit data warehouse) into EnergyCredit.

London, England, Gb

• Automated processes prior to purchasing a credit system with the functionality to make it possible for Shell from margining (collateral calling) 10-15 large customers on a daily basis to easily being able to margin 100+ customers on a daily basis • Created detailed spreadsheets to monitor exposures versus given credit lines for all Canadian and US trading. • Alleviated over-exposure by obtaining collateral or other means. • Monitored and maintained letters of credit, netting agreements, cash collateral and parental guaranties in credit databases. • Designed and implemented processes to improve collateral requests and the reviews of counterparties. • Largely responsible for the enhancing and maintaining Endur, eCredit, EAI and other credit systems. • Created and utilized deal detail reports within Excel using pivot tables to reconcile exposure discrepancies between Coral and other counterparties.