Jobs at Optimus

Manage Accounts Payable activities and support physical commodity trade settlements. Responsibilities include invoice processing, vendor reconciliations, month-end close, accruals, audits, trade settlement documentation, discrepancy resolution, payment accuracy, record maintenance, and process improvement. The role collaborates with trading, operations, accounting, counterparties, and commercial teams in a fast-paced commodity trading environment.

Lead a high-volume accounts payable operation and supervise the AP team. Responsibilities include overseeing SAP invoice workflows, resolving discrepancies, monitoring metrics, supporting month-end accounting, partnering with vendors and internal stakeholders, and improving procure-to-pay processes through automation. The role also manages team performance, contractors, controls, reconciliations, journal entries, and process-improvement initiatives.

Provides day-to-day contract documentation and administration for physical commodity transactions, supporting trades from execution through completion. Focuses on petrochemical and fuel oil activity, with exposure to crude oil, natural gas, and renewable commodities. Coordinates time-sensitive activities, manages changing priorities, communicates with traders and commercial stakeholders, and ensures accurate, dependable transaction processing in a high-volume commodities trading environment.

Provides compliance oversight for physical and financial power trading across North American markets. Conducts trade surveillance, investigates potential market abuse and tariff violations, interprets FERC, CFTC, ISO/RTO, and NERC requirements, advises trading and commercial teams, develops monitoring tools, performs risk assessments, maintains controls, and supports audits, investigations, regulatory inquiries, and compliance training.

Originate, structure, and negotiate long-term natural gas sales, supply, transportation, storage, and asset management transactions in the Northeast. Partner with Trading to develop commercial strategies, optimize portfolio positions, evaluate pipeline transportation opportunities, and expand customer relationships and products.

Originates and structures physical natural gas supply, transportation, and storage deals for the Gulf Coast. Leverages producer and midstream relationships to develop commercial opportunities, evaluates asset economics and market fundamentals, and partners with Trading, Legal, Credit, and Operations to execute agreements and manage risk.

Manage administration of physical commodity contracts from execution to completion. Use company templates to prepare contracts, coordinate with traders and internal teams, track documentation and statuses, resolve discrepancies, support amendments/renewals, and improve contracting processes while maintaining confidentiality and accuracy in a fast-paced trading desk environment.

Lead and execute natural gas trading strategies for the Northeast portfolio, leveraging storage, transportation, and LNG assets. Analyze market fundamentals, execute short-term trades within risk limits, optimize asset utilization with Commercial/Risk/Operations, build supplier and pipeline relationships, and mentor junior traders to grow the trading organization.

Lead design, build, and maintain an AWS/Databricks-based data and ML platform. Implement core platform components, CI/CD and IaC, ensure security/compliance, collaborate with engineering teams, and drive automation and observability.

Support risk control for North American power trading: monitor positions, perform MTM valuation, reconcile deals and prices, produce daily risk reports, validate models and assumptions, collaborate with traders, and assist senior management reporting.

Provide Endur expertise to design, test, and iterate risk and valuation models. Configure and validate VaR, PnL, exposure reporting, pricing models, deal setup, and market data. Collaborate with risk analysts, developers, and traders, troubleshoot performance, integrate custom risk metrics, and document configurations for stakeholders.