GAZPROM UK RECRUITS FRONT OFFICE GRADUATES

GAZPROM UK RECRUITS FRONT OFFICE GRADUATES
Working for Gazprom Marketing & Trading
As we grow, it becomes ever more important that we preserve the enterprising spirit that helped to launch our Company. We recruit talented individuals with the skills and imagination to match our ambition; developing their expertise, allowing them to flourish and ensuring they become part of our ongoing success story.
Working in Trading, Portfolio and Origination
These businesses create value for GM&T by trading gas, power, oil and oil products, carbon and foreign exchange. The Gas and Power origination teams provide a valuable range of products and services for energy clients including supplies, swaps, options, hedges, storage and transportation deals. These businesses have grown fast and are continually pushing boundaries – especially with regard to depth of trading and the areas in which we operate.
Jobs in Trading, Portfolio and Origination
We look for entrepreneurial individuals who can identify and establish new sales channels for these businesses and originate, negotiate and conclude contracts with our customers. Applicants need strong business acumen and excellent financial, analytical, negotiation and presentation skills, as well as an expert understanding of the energy industry and marketing and trading specifics. It’s high pressure work and the deadlines are tight, but it’s an exciting, dynamic and rewarding environment.
GM&T Ltd is a marketing and trading subsidiary of Gazprom Group based in Kingston-Upon-Thames. We are currently looking to recruit 6 graduates to join our Front Office function where you will be exposed to up to 5 business units including the Operations team, the Trading Analysis and Strategy team, the Carbon team, the Origination team, the Trading Capability team and with the Trading teams directly.
During your time in the Operations team, you will provide vital support to the Trading teams for Gas, Power and Carbon. Working with the Trading Analysis and Strategy team will increase your knowledge and experience of the Front Office activities by giving you the opportunity to support the Trading & Portfolio Team (and wider GM&T) by providing clear, accurate and timely analysis to inform decision making. Your contribution to the Trading desk will be through checking deal entries to minimise errors and so reducing errors to the Settlements Team.

Main Responsibilities in the Operations Team
Provide an added value link with Back Office
Responding to queries regarding invoice reconciliation
Continuous improvement of processes and procedures
Support the Front Office in ensuring that all GM&T positions are balanced and reconciled in accordance with Trading Manager’s instructions
Ensure that trading activity carried out on behalf of trading team is accurate
Support the Operations Manager in ensuring that Operations’ activities are executed in a timely and accurate manner:
Support the Power and Gas Trading teams in the successful nominations of daily positions to the grids and networks
Ensure accuracy of nominations for GM&T positions
Main Responsibilities in the Trading Analysis and Strategy team
Support front-office decision makers by providing accurate and timely analysis of market drivers
Extract, collate, check and analyse market data from relevant information sources; use this to build market models and trading decision models
Monitor current news feeds, company, industry and competitors’ websites, passing market sensitive information onto Traders
Attend industry conferences, reporting back to the Trading team
Produce regular (routine) reports on various commodity markets (especially gas and power)
Deliver ad-hoc analysis to inform trading decisions
Participate in the design and conceptualisation of trading analysis tools, writing specifications for and testing applications built by in-house IT Developers
Provide administrative support to the Trading team
Main Responsibilities with the Carbon Team
Monitor and collect information, from UN and other sources
Provide administrative support to Carbon team, support in co-ordination and recording of team meetings, assist in following-up and closing issues.
Develop and maintain specific databases related to different project processes and market trends, DOE performance, timelines, request for reviews, etc. This would be used for interaction with SP and Risk and specific decision making
Assist in developing and maintaining our own databases
Provide administrative support to Carbon team, support in coordination and recording of team meetings. Assist in following up and closing issues
Provided administrative support in administration activities of PM team systems [PM tool, DOE pipeline, planning, etc]
Provide entry level support for project quality control [consistency checks, work book auditing] and initial screening [review against methodologies, etc]
Provide assistance in development of weekly-monthly reports
Main Responsibilities with the Origination Team
Identify and establish new sales channels in-line with the sales and marketing strategy (in UK and subsequently in continental Europe)
Focus on the development of gas/power activity in new/different markets
Responsible for originating structured deals, negotiate and conclude sales contracts with customers (both wholesale and end users, or final customer delivery point)
Establish new and maintain existing relationships with GM&T customers
Manage growth in sales volumes and growth in the GM&T customer base (in UK and subsequently in continental Europe)
Provide input to legal review of sales contract terms and conditions
Build strategic relationships with core internal business partners e.g. Trading team, optimisation, analytics, Risk, I.T. etc
Production of management reports and presentations
Ensure compliance with risk management governance policies and procedures
Main Responsibilities with the Trading Capability Team
Facilitate the development of a strong portfolio of counterparty trading documents, in support of GM&T’s expansion
Support & improve implementation of Business Processes
Research and analysis of prospective market areas for GM&T’s trading expansion
Prepare and deliver presentations as required
Co-ordinate ad hoc Front Office trading capability requirement as required
Main Responsibilities with the Trading Teams
Be a point of contact for all Traders during the day with a key responsibility to support the deal entry process for 11 multi commodity (gas, power, foreign exchange & oil) traders checking traders individual trade blotters against what has been entered into the in house trading database and minimising any potential errors. Work with individual traders to address any amendments as required.
Work directly with the Trading Managers to identify and implement initiatives to support daily trading activity and run ad hoc analysis as requested in order to support the commercial management of the desks. Liaise with all areas of the business, including overseas subsidiaries in Singapore and Houston, to address trade queries and provide information as required

Candidate Specification:
Qualifications:
Degree level education in finance, business, engineering, science or a related numerate discipline. Masters preferred.
Skills:
Excellent analytical skills and a good attention to detail
A good level of numeracy and computer skills, ideally with working knowledge of Microsoft Office
Effective written and verbal communication skills
Fluent in English, European language(s) an advantage
Competencies:

Diligence and reliability
Ability to work effectively as part of a team, and alone
Able to cope with pressured situations and rapid growth of business
Strong organizational and planning skills
Ability to foster and build relationships across teams
Willingness to learn new skills
Experience:

Basic knowledge of working in the energy industry desirable
How to apply:
If you are interested in working within our Trading, Portfolio and Origination teams please follow the following link and complete your application.
http://www.gazprom-mt.com/grads/