About Careertakes

👉 Important disclosure: Careertakes is a third-party recruiting platform supporting this hiring process. If selected, you will be employed directly by our client, Accounting & Finance.

Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.

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What You’ll Do

The Confidential Client is hiring an entry-level Pricing & Risk Analyst to support daily valuation and market-risk activities for physical and financial commodity portfolios. You will ensure positions are valued using complete, accurate, and well-supported market data and work closely with trading, risk, accounting, operations, and IT.

Key responsibilities:

• Maintain daily market, forward, and basis curves (RightAngle or similar ETM systems).
• Gather, validate, and upload prices from exchanges, brokers, and price‑reporting agencies.
• Complete nightly marks accurately and meet time-sensitive deadlines.
• Review curve movements and pricing inputs for completeness and consistency with observed market activity.
• Identify and investigate stale, missing, duplicated, or unusual prices; escalate and coordinate timely resolution.
• Set up exchange-traded instruments in RightAngle and ZEMA (or comparable platforms).
• Support valuation adjustments for location, quality, timing, and transportation basis.
• Document price sources, curve methodologies, manual adjustments, exceptions, and approvals for audit readiness.
• Assist in sourcing new pricing services and onboarding new products, markets, and data sources.
• Contribute to process improvements, automation, and system enhancements.
• Provide backup support for daily pricing, futures, and risk-control activities as needed.

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Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, economics, or a related analytical field required.

Experience:

• Internship or up to two years’ experience in commodity trading, market data, risk, pricing, finance, accounting, or a related analytical role.
• Familiarity with physical or financial commodity markets.
• Exposure to energy trading & risk management systems (RightAngle preferred).
• Experience working with exchange, broker, or price‑reporting‑agency data.
• Understanding of forward curves, basis pricing, mark‑to‑market valuation, P&L, and market‑risk concepts.

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Preferred skills & tools

• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with high attention to detail.
• Ability to prioritize and consistently meet daily deadlines.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (formulas, lookups, filtering, and data reconciliation).
• Experience with data‑analysis or automation tools such as Power Query, SQL, Python, or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with pricing controls, escalation procedures, and data governance.
• Clear written documentation skills and the ability to communicate findings across commercial, operational, financial, and technical teams.

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Physical demands & work environment

• Primarily office‑based work requiring prolonged sitting, some bending/stooping.
• Occasional lifting up to 25 pounds.
• Manual dexterity to operate a computer keyboard and calculator.
• Normal range of hearing and vision required.
• Travel may be required on occasion.

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Why this role

This position offers broad, hands‑on exposure to commodity markets, trading activity, valuation methodologies, and risk reporting—an excellent opportunity to build a career in energy trading and market data operations with strong on‑the‑job learning and collaboration across teams.

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

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