Treasury Analyst, Sg

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

**About the Company**

JERA Global Markets (JERAGM) is a leading utility-backed seaborne energy trader specialising in LNG, coal and Freight. A joint venture between majority shareholder JERA Co., Inc. and EDF Trading, JERAGM’s shareholders are among the world’s largest utilities.

JERAGM operates one of the largest energy portfolios in the world which gives it an in-depth understanding of the way local, regional and international energy markets behave. These insights enable it to help its customers increase security of supply, optimise their portfolios and improve the risk management of their assets.

JERAGM LNG team manages the flexibility of over 35 million tonnes of supply each year, with structural access to both the European and North American gas markets. The coal team manages 60 million tonnes of supply each year for its shareholders and third-party customers and operates a major coal terminal in the Netherlands.

Headquartered in Singapore, JERAGM has a global talent pool of more than 250 people across offices located in four strategic locations: Singapore, Japan (Tokyo), the UK (London) and the US (Baltimore).

JERAGM is strongly capitalised with over US$500 million in paid up capital and a total equity of US$3 billion. JERAGM has retained its A+ Stable rating from R&I, attributable to a robust business model and solid financial base.

**Department**

The Collateral Optimisation Senior Analyst/ Analyst role sits within the Treasury department. The treasury team is responsible for all aspects of treasury risk management including; liquidity management, cash flow forecasting, foreign exchange, interest rate risk management, collateral management and margining.

The treasury department is a team-based environment that values interaction and exchange of ideas and techniques and is a huge advocate of continuous improvement. The flat team structure supports access to all levels of management across the organisation in order to ensure that analysis and judgements are comprehensive and complete.

DESIGNATION : Treasury Analyst (Collateral Optimisation), SG

RESPONSIBILITIES

**Key Role Responsibilities**
- Developing an exhaustive map of JERAGM collateral posting requirements across clearers, exchange traded platforms, OTC counterparts and shareholders.
- On a daily basis understand margining flows across all stakeholders based on Front Office reported positions and market price movements.
- Ensuring collateral requirements are made transparent to all stakeholders, through reporting and where applicable, escalation.
- Ensuring daily Margining arrangements are managed appropriately.
- Maintaining strong links with collateral owners, relationship banks and collateral beneficiaries.
- Assist in the design and implementation of a best-in-class commodity trading collateral framework, including:

- Daily reporting.
- Workflow design and implementation.
- Removal of highly manual operational tasks.
- Produce appropriate reporting and analytics for distribution across the business, including
- Input into monthly presentations for the Exec.
- Provide ad hoc support to other JERAGM subsidiaries in all areas related to liquidity / collateral management.
- Work closely with other areas of Treasury (FX, Margin management) to ensure continued high performance of JERAGM Treasury Team
- Making suggestions to improve existing processes reliant on manual intervention.
- Support the management of the treasury team in developing stress test scenario around the impact of margining on JERAGM’s liquidity.
- Ensuring all processes are well documented to the extent that they can be picked up seamlessly by other team members.
- Work with Middle Office and Finance to ensure standardisation and reconciliation to ensure data coherence.

QUALIFICATIONS

**Key Qualifications and Experience**
- 3 to 5 years of experience from either a Commodities Trading or Treasury Middle-Back Office would be preferred.
- Commodities knowledge especially in dealing with ICE & CME would be advantageous.
- Experience in designing and implementing systems to improve the control framework.
- High level of numeracy and excellent advanced Excel skills, including building spreadsheets, Pivots, Vlook ups and VBA.
- Independently code with Python/SQL
- Knowledge of Bloomberg, Power BI and PowerPivot would be advantageous.

OTHER INFORMATION

**Person Specification**
- Highly organised with an appetite for understanding the interdependencies of specific events to ensure risks are mitigated promptly.
- A curious mind-set, willing to challenge the status quo to get to the root of a concept or problem.
- Proactive and highly organised, willing to suggest improvements to existing processes with the ability to work to tight deadlines.
- Ability to work autonomously but be able to escalate problems to the manager in a timely fashion.
- Excellent interpersonal and organisation skills are essential, as well as an ability to break down complex