Trading Analyst

Company Overview

At Spire, we believe energy exists to help people. To enrich their lives, grow their businesses, advance their communities. It’s a simple idea, but one that’s at the heart of our business. We’re dedicated to understanding our customers’ needs and goals to better serve them today and tomorrow. That’s why we’re always looking for driven, collaborative people to join our team. Because we believe that offering our customers the best service means bringing together the best people.
We value safety, inclusion, and integrity. We connect to people, get the job done, and leave a memory and everything about our culture comes back to one thing: a handshake at the front door. We have 4 essential behaviors that show how the Spire culture comes to life:

Living Spire Behaviors
• We Collaborate: We reach across boundaries to connect with each other and deliver on our promises. We put teamwork first, knowing that our collective energy makes us stronger.
• We Care: We create good memories by treating people how we want to be treated: We are inclusive, respectful and kind. We actively create a caring culture that feels like a handshake at the front door.
• We Advance: We are active learners who never stop looking for ways to innovate and improve ourselves, and our company. We embrace ongoing development and process improvement with passion and tenacity.
• We Have Perspective: We strive to gain additional perspective about Spire’s business and the ever-changing energy industry. We know that every employee plays an important role in Spire’s success, and we give our best to better understand how to help move the company forward.

Summary

Spire is seeking a Trading Analyst to work in the Houston office. This position will be responsible for providing trade support for SMI trading group, but also assist other functional groups, including but not limited, Gas Marketing and Origination, and Gas Scheduling.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist trading personnel with a detailed level of support and focus on assigned tasks that will help increase their productivity and profitability.
• Support with position management, deal check-out, as well as specific analysis on physical and financial fundamentals within the North American Natural Gas Market.
• Develop and maintain market data in order to help forecast conditions effecting supply and demand.
• Maintain and generate daily position reports for the trading function.
• Monitor and report on market pricing to traders and marketers.
• Analyze a wide range of fundamental and technical data as required from trading manager or traders.
• Attend client/customer meetings or calls with traders, marketers, or other SMI personnel as necessary.

Essential Characteristics and Competencies

• Strong Ethics and Integrity, Dedication to a Safe Work Environment, Commitment to a Diverse Workforce that recognizes and respects every individual’s unique skills and perspectives.
• Communications, relationship building, adaptability, teamwork, customer focus, results-driven, quality, initiative, problem solving and analysis.

Supervisory Responsibilities

N/A

Required Education (certifications, licenses)

• A bachelor’s degree in business or a related field required

Required knowledge, skill and abilities

• Previous experience as a full time employee or as an Intern within the energy business strongly preferred
• Proficient with Microsoft Word and Excel
• Minimum 2-3 years of relevant experience

• Ability to demonstrate and master the core and job category competencies applicable for this role within the organization.
• Detailed and focused, with an ability to handle the stress of working on a trading floor.

Physical demands, environment and schedule

• Normal Work Environment – Work is normally performed in a shared office environment
• Typically, 8 hours a day, Monday through Friday
• Travel is required on a limited basis, principally for day trips, as well as some amount of overtime
• During peak periods, especially during legislative session, additional overtime and travel may be required to meet externally set deadlines

Posting Requirements

Spire accepts online applications through our career site at jobs.spireenergy.com

Posting requirements: The above posting description is intended to describe the general nature of the level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each duty and responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Spire, Inc., and its subsidiaries are Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity in all areas, including but not necessarily limited to, recruitment, selection, training, education, compensation, benefits, promotion, job transfer, upgrading, separation and recall regardless of the individual’s race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, and/or other protected categories under all Federal, State, and local laws. For more information, please view our Integrity and Inclusion pages of our career site.