Strategic Initiatives

# Castleton Commodities International## Strategic Initiatives Apply:
Houston, TX:
Full time:
Posted Today:
R1202

CCI is hiring a Strategic Initiatives professional to support our commercial business across complementary pillars: the execution of high-impact business initiatives, onboarding of new commercial talent, and ETRM trade lifecycle initiatives, including the system setup of new forward price and volatility curves, and settlement quotes. This role will partner with Front Office, Merchant Operations, Finance and P&L, Risk, Technology, and other cross-functional teams to deliver strategic system enhancements, onboard new trading desks, assist the Principal Investments team with onboarding and offboarding US asset businesses, and drive expansion into new markets and products across our global energy commodity platform.
** Responsibilities:*
* ** Strategic Initiatives, Commercial Onboarding, and ETRM Trade Lifecycle Initiatives*
* * Assist in the onboarding and strategic projects across the global trading footprint with focus on coverage of the US offices and business’, including new trading desks, , and market and product expansions.
* Assist the Principal Investments team with Trade Ops and Finance deliverables of asset investments or divestitures.
* Manage new business efforts, including documentation of business and system requirements, cross-functional facilitation, system setup and testing, project planning, and coordinating task completion across Trading, Risk, P&L, Tax, Technology, Operations, Accounting, and other teams as required for the project scope.
* Establish operational risk and control processes, and documentation, for new business and trading activity.
* Support the commercial business in diligence and approvals of new initiatives.
* Onboard and provide ongoing support to new commercial resources, including traders.
* Ensure cross-functional coordination across support groups, connecting new initiatives into existing global processes and, where applicable, working with functional area owners on the definition and implementation of non-standard workflows.
* Undertake ad-hoc strategic and corporate projects as required.
* Collaborate with and, at times, lead initiatives across the firm to design and implement solutions supporting organizational needs, including new product configuration, trading reference data architecture and setup, and process and data flow analysis.
* Oversee the configuration, integration, and optimization of ETRM systems to support front, middle, and back-office functions.
* Setup of new forward price and volatility curves and settlement quotes in the system.
* Liaise with developers for IT development and support as needed.
* Coordinate with the Data Integration team to organize and streamline reference data and develop reporting and analytics solutions.
* Leverage Python for automation prototypes, maintenance of existing processes reliant on Python code, and advanced analytics initiatives.
* Facilitate user acceptance testing, deployment, and training for new system features and enhancements.
* Maintain a strong understanding of data sources, uses, and controls across the enterprise, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
* Maintain documentation of new products onboarded, in addition to areas where the team has assisted in efficiency or enhanced control initiatives.  
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* Qualifications:

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* * Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Math, Economics, Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
* 5+ years experience in a combination of business analysis, project management, cross-departmental business management, trade support, risk, P&L, physical scheduling, or operations within the energy and commodities industry.
* Demonstrated trade…