Associate Director, Strategic Initiatives

6 months ago

London, United Kingdom Castleton Commodities International Full time

Castleton Commodities International is hiring for our Strategic Initiatives team in our Stamford, CT office. This position provides operational support of strategic initiatives to CCI's commercial business. Initiatives include onboarding of new trading desks, expansion of trading businesses into new markets and products (across CCI’s global energy commodity product line), and management of significant corporate projects.

Main responsibilities include working with front office and leadership to review project manage, and execute on recommend and execute on new business implementation and market entry, lead cross functional collaboration on commercial and corporate endeavors, and collaborate or manage business process efficiency initiatives. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a high growth environment with exposure to multiple energy commodities and business initiatives.

**Responsibilities**:

- Lead onboarding and strategic projects across CCI’s global trading footprint.
- Manage new business and new asset implementation efforts including documentation of business and system requirements, facilitating cross-functional discussions, ownership of system setup and testing, project planning, and coordinating task completion across functional areas (Trading, Risk, P&L, Tax, Technology, Ops, Accounting).
- Establish operational risk and control processes and metrics for new business and trading activity.
- Support commercial business in diligence and approvals of new initiatives.
- Onboard and provide support to new commercial resources (i.e., traders).
- Ensure cross-functional coordination across CCI support groups, connecting new initiatives into existing global processes, and where applicable working with functional area owners on definition and implementation of non-standard process.
- Partner with the IT organization on system requirements, prioritization, and enhancements rollout including oversight of specifications, process documentation, system configuration, data governance, and UAT testing.
- Ad-hoc strategic and/or corporate projects and initiatives.

Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science or related field.- 7+ years of work experience in cross-departmental initiatives, business management, risk, trade support, or operations in the energy and commodities industry.- Understanding of P&L, trade valuation methodologies and experience onboarding new business lines in financial and physical markets.- Demonstrated trade lifecycle experience with one or more of the following commodity products: Electricity, Oil, Natural Gas. Past exposure to European Power and Gas, Physical Oil Trading, and/or Structured Transactions.- Ability to effectively communicate with commercial teams and all levels of management, must be able to autonomously lead both meetings and initiatives.- Analytical mindset, attention to details and controls oriented.- Strong technical skills and previous experience with ETRM systems strongly preferred.- Strong work ethic, commercial mindset, and high level of integrity.

Employee Programs & Benefits:
CCI offers competitive benefits and programs to support our employees, their families and local communities. These include:
- Competitive comprehensive medical, dental, retirement and life insurance benefits- Employee assistance & wellness programs- Parental and family leave policies- CCI in the Community: Each office has a Charity Committee and as a part of this program employees are allocated 2 days annually to volunteer at the selected charities.- Charitable contribution match program- Tuition assistance & reimbursement- Quarterly Innovation & Collaboration Awards- Employee discount program, including access to fitness facilities- Competitive paid time off- Continued learning opportunities

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