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Centrica Energy stands an exceptionally strong energy trading company with true worldwide impact, operating from eight strategically located offices across all time zones. We play a pivotal role in moving energy from source to end user, championing the green transition whilst ensuring sustainable and predictable energy costs for suppliers and offtakers.
Our LNG division is renowned for its international reach, with cargoes physically and financially traded across all continents. Our wholesale power and gas trading footprint covers 28 countries throughout Europe and the United States, placing us at the heart of the energy value chain. This means unparalleled access to markets, counterparties, and deal-making opportunities that only a few organisations can offer.
We are looking for an outstanding front-office Senior LNG Trading Analyst to join one of our highest growth platforms. This is a prestigious, commercially focused role calling for exceptional numerical skills, strategic thinking, and a flair for structuring innovative deals. You’ll play a vital part in shaping the company’s success story, leveraging your expertise in global energy markets, with a particular emphasis on Asia and other high-growth regions.
What makes this role truly stand out?
Global Impact: Influence decisions and strategies that shape the future of energy across continents
High Visibility & Growth: Be at the centre of Centrica Energy’s investment and expansion, with significant opportunities for advancement and leadership
Commercially Rewarding: Directly drive business performance in markets where your insight and deal structuring skills will be highly valued and recognised
Collaborative Excellence: Work with top-tier professionals in a supportive, ambitious team based in central London—enjoying a blend of office-based and flexible working
Innovation & Influence: Develop front office tools, craft pre-deal analysis, and pioneer solutions in one of the most exciting sectors of the global economy.
If you are a talented professional seeking a high-profile commercial role that offers challenge, reward, and the chance to make a genuine impact on the energy transition, Centrica Energy’s Senior LNG Trading Analyst position could be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for.
The team has two main focus areas:
Short-term LNG Trading: Contributing towards P&L and cash delivery in the short-term through providing pro-active market trading analysis, bespoke insights into retail drivers (in particular China/Asia), coupled with excellent collaboration with key stakeholders across other front-office commodity functions in Centrica Energy
LNG Business Development: Structured deals’ (e.g. Gas to Power) analysis, ‘new market’ (for example Chinese/Asian/new markets) and global trading trends and counterpart/competitor analysis for mid to long-term deal making.
The role is based out of our central London office (close to Marble Arch) with 3 days per week typically based within the office.
What you’ll be doing?
The LNG market is constantly changing and you will be asked to take on high paced analytical challenges. The analysis which LNG Analytics undertakes require thorough understanding of commercial opportunities, excellent stakeholder management, analytical model solutions, and identification of value opportunities. The successful candidate will demonstrate strong interpersonal skills to facilitate insights for short-term trading and mid/long-term origination.
For Short-term Trading:
Deliver pre-deal and structuring analysis
Assist financial trading analysis (options, derivatives and financial engineering techniques) and asset-backed trading in the LNG space
Build front office tools to model trading opportunities as well as analyse pre-deal evaluation of risk and reward
Maintain systems and processes designed to ensure accuracy and ease of use for initial LNG deal valuation, deal structure recommendations and finally deal booking
Reconcile exposure and be a link between Front office and partnering functions (Product Control, Finance and Front Office models)
Deliver bespoke market analysis through first-class interpretation of fundamental drivers (for example Asian/Chinese growth markets).
For Business Development:
Provide structuring analysis to LNG Business Developers; modelling their proposed transactions on a standalone basis while also demonstrating incremental portfolio value of these transactions
Support development of a portfolio model in which the aggregate LNG Portfolio under management by Centrica (beyond the next two years) is understood and from which we can assess portfolio value and exposure
Perform market analysis particularly with respect to emerging markets (e.g. China and Asia) to identify target customers and understand the decision-making process.
For LNG Team and Centrica Energy Leadership:
Interface with teams across Centrica Energy and Centrica, including Quant Analytics, Finance and Risk functions to develop the LNG Analytics modelling capability with a focus on maximising extrinsic value
Produce insights on LNG pricing data, exposure, P&L and news.
What we are looking for?
Experience of working in LNG Trading and within a wider energy trading environment, with exposure to Gas, Power and other commodities
Experience of LNG Shipping and commercial LNG contracts
Experience in supporting commercial decision making (including PnL and hedging monitoring) in a commodity trading environment
Understanding of valuing, pricing and understanding the risk and optionality embedded in LNG transactions and related derivative positions
Excellent fundamentals modelling skills, in particular global LNG and gas markets - strong Excel and advanced modelling skills
Programming: Python (other programming languages a bonus, such as VBA, C++ and statistical packages)
Experience of key support functions in trading, for example Market Risk or Finance would be an advantage
Excellent interpersonal/team working skills
Good communication/presentation skills
Analytical with strong attention to detail.
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Why should you apply?
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