Confirmations & Trade Control AnalystDepartment: Middle Office
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: US TX Houston - Corporate Office
Job DescriptionPosition Summary: This role serves as a critical link between Trading, Risk, Scheduling, and Finance, ensuring the accuracy of transactions, valuations, and risk reporting. The Confirmations & Trade Control Analyst will play a key role in monitoring positions, validating trades, and supporting risk and P&L processes to enable effective decision-making across the organization.
Key Accountabilities:- Validate daily trade activity (physical and financial) to ensure accuracy and completeness
- Maintain and reconcile trading positions, including volumes, pricing, and transportation exposures
- Investigate and resolve discrepancies between systems, counterparties, and internal records
- Support deal entry and lifecycle management in ETRM systems
- Coordinate closely with Scheduling and Contracts teams to ensure alignment on volumes and delivery obligations
- Perform daily, weekly, and monthly reconciliations (positions, pricing, settlements)
- Promote a strong control culture focused on accuracy, timeliness, accountability, and risk mitigation.
- Evaluate processes to identify control gaps, inefficiencies, and opportunities for automation and improvement.
- Develop, maintain, and periodically review procedures to ensure consistency, compliance, and alignment with global standards where applicable
- Participate in system enhancements, upgrades, and user acceptance testing for ETRM and confirmation platforms.
Qualifications: Education, Certificates, and Licenses:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Business, or a related field required
Experience:
- 3+ years of experience in middle office, risk, trading support, or financial analysis
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Strong analytical and quantitative skillset with attention to detail
- Strong knowledge of the full trade lifecycle, including contracts, trade capture, confirmations, lifecycle events, amendments and the impact across functional areas.
- Familiarity with Endur/Openlink and ICE
- Proficiency in Excel and experience working with large datasets
- Ability to reconcile complex data across multiple systems and identify discrepancies
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage competing priorities
- Effective communication skills with the ability to interact across technical and commercial teams
