Trade Book to Financial Reporting Manager

Responsible for developing reporting that reconciles and explains differences between the Company’s commodity trade-book results and financial reporting. Coordinates reporting across Risk, FP&A, Accounting, and Commercial to investigate material differences, explain how trade-book performance relates to financial results, and support analysis of current and future commodity-related earnings. This role requires an understanding of commodity trading activity, financial reporting, forecasting, and ETRM data.

Include but are not limited to the following activities:

• Develop and maintain reporting that reconciles the Company’s commodity trade-book results to financial results.
• Coordinate inputs from Risk, FP&A, Accounting, and Commercial to prepare the reconciliation and explain material differences.
• Perform monthly forecast-to-actual analysis for commodity-related earnings and explain material variances.
• Support FP&A’s budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning processes by providing commodity-related analysis and reporting input.
• Analyze differences related to valuation, inventory treatment, timing, accruals, settlements, hedge results, costs, and reporting classifications.
• Prepare clear reporting that explains how commercial performance relates to reported financial results.
• Review the transaction, position, volume, valuation, and P&L information used in the reconciliation and investigate identified discrepancies.
• Coordinate the resolution of reporting differences with the function responsible for the underlying data, methodology, or accounting treatment.
• Identify recurring reconciliation issues and recommend improvements to systems, controls, data quality, and reporting processes.
• Support the development of ETRM reporting capabilities for trade-book, financial, and risk reporting.
• Provide backup support for designated Risk reporting and analysis, as assigned.
• Support audit, compliance, SOX documentation, and reporting-control requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Business, Energy Management, or a related field.
• Seven or more years of relevant experience, including responsibility for leading cross-functional reporting, reconciliation, forecasting, financial analysis, or process-improvement initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience developing and managing reporting that connects commercial or trading results to management and financial reporting.
• Experience with natural gas, LNG, or commodity derivatives.
• Strong understanding of commodity trading activity, including trade capture, mark-to-market valuation, realized and unrealized P&L, inventory accounting, accruals, settlements, and financial reporting.
• Experience analyzing commodity-related earnings, forecast-to-actual variances, and the effects of inventory positions, hedges, valuation changes, and market movements.
• Experience with ETRM systems such as Entrade, Endur, Allegro, Right Angle, or a similar platform.
• Ability to independently evaluate data and explanations, identify material issues, coordinate resolution across functions, and elevate unresolved matters when appropriate.
• Ability to communicate commodity trading activity, financial results, and material variances clearly to commercial, financial, technical, and senior management audiences.
• Experience collaborating with global teams across different cultures and time zones.
• Advanced Excel, financial analysis, reconciliation, data analysis, and management-reporting skills.

• Financial reporting and commercial understanding
• Cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management
• Reconciliation and root-cause analysis
• Independent judgment and constructive challenge
• Forecast…