Trading Surveillance Analyst

Hiring Manager : Thomas Jaboeuf

Location: Paris – La Garenne Colombe 

About ENGIE and Supply & Energy Management:

ENGIE, a global leader in low-carbon energy and services, relies on its Global Business Unit Supply & Energy Management (GBU S&EM) to provide reliable, sustainable, and affordable energy to all its customers. This strategic unit optimizes the Group’s and clients’ production assets and designs tailored energy solutions for our 200,000 professional clients and 15 million consumers.

The Global Business Unit Supply & Energy Management leverages ENGIE’s assets to deliver secure and sustainable energy to its B2B and B2C customers. It uses its expertise in energy management to provide decarbonized electricity 24/7.

Joining Supply & Energy Management means becoming part of a team of over 10,000 passionate experts spread across 20 countries, all united by a shared mission: shaping a greener and more efficient energy future. Together, we push the boundaries of innovation to deliver decarbonized

Context:

  You will join the Trading Surveillance team within S&EM Risk Control – Transversal Risk.

This team is composed of 9 analysts in charge of preventing, detecting and escalating risky or suspicious trading practices on external trading platforms under S&EM market conduct and algo trading policies. This is an operational team working in collaboration with other functions (mainly Legal, Compliance, Front-Office) to comply with market abuse regulations (REMIT,MAR,...), algo trading regulations (MIDIF2, REMIT2,…), and internal rules, covering all S&EM trading entities and products worldwide.

Role:

• Develop and maintain a surveillance system that allows to integrate trading activity data and recognize, prevent or report cases of market manipulation and risky trading behaviours.


• Create prototype alerts then industrialize them in the core big data surveillance tool with the support of a dedicated IS team.


• Perform daily controls and ad-hoc spot checks on S&EM trading activity, challenge Front Officers on their trading practices (Internal Requests For Information or internal investigations)​


• Escalate alerts internally to Market conduct governance and/or externally through STORs (Suspicious Trade and


• Order Report)


• Contribute to the awareness and guidelines on best practices considering regulatory developments and business changes, in close collaboration with Front-Officers, Legal and Compliance


• Analyze and validate algorithmic trading tools and strategies and elaborate pre-trade securities in relation with IS and business teams.


• Monitor algo trading activities in real-time (trading activity, parameter and code change) and react in case of unexpected trading activity, notably in case a kill-switch activation is needed


• Support Legal/Compliance teams with data and analysis in case of external inquiries.

Hard skills:

• Must have: Excellent practical ability to analyze/process multiple data and information sources, design models, understand markets, products and trading strategies, acquired through a first professional experience. Practice of office tools and management of databases (SQL, AWS, Azure, DataIku, APIs,...). Excellent Python coding skills.

• Good to have: first experience linked to Energy markets or Market Conduct regulations or Trading Surveillance activities.

Soft skills:

• Must have: Analytical and assertive mindset, combined with a hands-on approach. Well organized and pro-active, tenacious and stress resistant. Curious, eager to learn and develop skills. Working on a collaborative mode. Able to communicate pedagogically around complex topics.

• Good to have: Strong interest for the energy markets (fundamentals, design, regulations, trading).

Education and professional background:

• Master's degree in energy engineering, economics, risk management, finance or a related field.


• Up to 3 years of experience in an analytical role, in a Banking, Utilities, or Trading environment.

Languages:

• Fluent in English.


• Fluent French appreciated.

Travels:

This is a European-based position, in one of our offices in Paris or Brussels, with some punctual travels to other S&EM offices.

If you meet these requirements, then you are the talent we are looking for. Do not waste time! 

Apply by attaching your updated CV, regardless your gender.

ENGIE Global Energy Management & Sales is committed to create a gender-neutral environment that unlocks the potential of everyone and provides equal employment opportunities for all individuals. 

All our positions are open to people with disabilities, please let your recruiter know if you need reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the recruitment process, they will be happy to assist you. 

About ENGIE:

Our group is a global reference in low-carbon energy and services. Our purpose (“raison d’être”) is to act to accelerate the transition towards a carbon-neutral world, through reduced energy consumption and more environmentally-friendly solutions, reconciling economic performance with a positive impact on people and the planet. We rely on our key businesses (gas, power, renewable energy, services) to offer competitive solutions to our customers. With our 96,000 employees, our customers, partners and stakeholders, we are a community of Imaginative Builders, committed every day to more harmonious progress.

About US (S&EM):

ENGIE Supply & Energy Management (S&EM) provides energy supply solutions and risk management services to support its clients through their decarbonization journey, while optimizing ENGIE’s assets and contributing to value creation.

ENGIE is a global reference in low-carbon energy and services with a leading energy management business, piloted by its entity "Global Energy Management & Sales" who built its savoir-faire managing the Group’s large and diverse asset portfolio over 20+ years.

3,600 employees around the world develop our solutions, through +20 international business platforms. We cover the full energy mix: renewable and thermal power, natural gas & LNG, biomass, environmental products. Our experts provide tailor made solutions based on a wide range of savoir-faire in energy management with a strong focus on decarbonation and decentralization.

Our 190,000 clients span the entire value chain: producers, asset developers, financial players, utilities, distributors and industrials. Our global reach and strong local presence enable us to offer these diverse clients tailor-made services and respond to rapid changes in mature or emerging markets alike.

Our 4 expertises:

• Asset management

• Energy transition services

• Energy supply & global commodities

• Risk management & market access

At GEMS we encourage breakthrough results, team spirit, curiosity and innovation while preserving the right work/life balance for you.

More info on GEMS Hub (https://gems.engie.com) or LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/company/engie-global-energy-management-solutions).