Quantitative Operational Compliance Analyst

Country Switzerland Location Switzerland Workplace location GENEVE-WTC1(CHE) Employer company TotalEnergies Gas & Power Ltd Domain Information Systems, Operations Type of contract Regular position Experience Less than 3 years Candidate Profile

Your profile

As an OPC will play an active role for the accuracy and completeness of all compliance control reports of the risk control department, the following skills are important: 

• Master’s Degree applied in Actuarial science/Mathematics/Quantitative finance. A numerical master’s degree – Science (MSc) or Engineering (MEng) desirable,
• Prior work experience: 0 – 4 years,
• Strong communication skills in English and/or French to work on cross-functional project, 
• Prior understanding of commodities markets and their unique risk factors, including price volatility and market mechanisms,
• Knowledge of relevant financial regulations and the ability to apply them in regulatory model analysis,
• Strong analytical skills to interpret data, and assess potential risks in regulatory models,
• Capacity to work responsively and efficiently, even under pressure, to meet daily deadlines,
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, R, or C# for data analysis, model implementation, and automation tasks.
• Ability to comprehend and manipulate sometimes intricate databases, extracting relevant insights for regulatory model analysis,
• Aptitude for proposing innovative and effective solutions to address regulatory requirements and intricate business challenges.

 

At TotalEnergies, we believe that our employees’ fulfilment has its roots in the wealth of the experiences they are offered. We are an equal opportunity employer committed to respecting diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
 Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard for race, color, gender, religion, national origin, disability, military status, age, marital status, sexual orientation.

Candidates with disabilities are encouraged to apply. We will provide necessary accommodations upon request.

Activities

What you will do:

The Operational Compliance Analyst (OPC) will work in the OPC team under the risk control department and oversees the development and monitoring of market regulation models and day-to-day operational regulatory: 

Core tasks would include: 

• Develop and monitor new risk metrics intrinsically linked to current market regulations (e.g.: Margins described in EMIR/MIFID II),
• Guarantee the relevance, accuracy, and integrity of the tools in their design, implementation and output, for the proper functioning of team's processes, 
• Update existing and create new innovative processes using Business Intelligence Tools,
• Focus on risk control by understanding specifications of exchanges (quantitative metrics) or OTC, implementing regulatory models (SPAN, SIMM, GRID etc...), providing an expertise on margin (scenarios, stressed market, forecast) to support optimisations with traders (EFPs),
• Focus on quantitative understanding of the portfolio by classifying transactions according to MiFID II and assisting FO, MO, BO with market evolutions,
• Provide assistance to the daily activities as coding automated processes (Python/Alteryx) or visualisation tools (Power Bi). 

 

Daily tasks would include:  

• Guarantees the relevance, accuracy and integrity of market regulation models, 
• Reconcile results of market regulation models with other counterparties when it is necessary, 
• Ensure support to other TGP departments on the evolution of market regulations or Exchanges rules that have an impact on their activity. Including communication with employees and market trade data from other sites (Geneva, Paris, Houston, Singapore). 
• Ensure the completion and reporting of day-to-day activity to the regulators and analyse the feedbacks received from the regulators.

Context & Environment

Job dimension 

TotalEnergies Gas and Power (TGP) operates in very volatile markets. The activity carries large market exposures, which must be closely monitored and controlled at any time. The regulations in place in each market are embedded into national law and must be always obeyed. Therefore, our role is to understand them and identify the changes affecting TGP’s trading activity.  

• The European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR),  
• the Regulation on Energy Market Integrity and Transparency (REMIT),  
• the Electricity Commission (ELCom) and  
• Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II)  
• Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) 
• Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) are the main six regulations TGP is reporting daily. 

The Analyst will work in an environment with a high potential business impact while assisting the OPC team to adapt its risk control framework and tools to the new financial and physical regulations. This will require the analyst to understand very complex and fast-evolving market environment (change in regulation, volatility...), and to develop challenging new projects in a fast-growing business.  

As an Analyst, you have the opportunity to discover key European and world trade reporting regulations and play an active role to ensure Middle Office, Back-office and Finance provide a compliant and accurate operational result.   Most importantly to ensure that the controls in place are adapted, up to date and appropriate to the activity and the current regulatory practices.

Our Culture:

We are committed to meet the energy needs of a growing population and we are committed to the energy transition. The volatility of the energy trading markets requires excellence in risk management and a culture of innovation. We are fully embracing the digital revolution.
 Our people flourish in an environment that promotes expertise, entrepreneurship spirit, agility and a purpose-driven culture, generating boundless opportunities to learn, grow and achieve collaborative success.
 Reinforcing the competencies of our people is a key pillar of our culture: we train our people to ensure their development and we pledge to encourage safety in all our actions.
 We look for passion, ambition and open-mindedness. While we evolve in a demanding industry that requests to be always on the edge, we cultivate a friendly workplace where our people feel good, where team spirit and respect guide our daily routine, where the diversity of our people and their skills create a nourishing experience for all of us.

About us

 TotalEnergies has developed a strong expertise in oil and biofuels, natural gas and electricity trading. Trading entities are based in Geneva, Paris, Houston and Singapore.
 
TotalEnergies installed its European trading hub across in Geneva, which now bring together very large teams around trading activities: TotalEnergies Trading & Shipping (T&S) and TotalEnergies Gas and Power (TGP).

TotalEnergies Gas and Power (TGP) is the trading arm of TotalEnergies in the field of low carbon energies. As such, it operates in fast-evolving market dynamics influenced by internal and external factors that require constant adaptation and evolution. 

The Trading division in Geneva is responsible for optimising the purchase & sales portfolios of gas, electricity, CO2 emissions, dry bulk, and LNG in all recognised markets worldwide, in compliance with the Company trading guidelines.

In such context, TGP helps to ensure growth and profitability to a key segment of the business in order to reach the objective of Carbon Neutrality by 2050.

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