About this role
Real Time Scheduling Analyst
What’s the role?
SENA’s Real Time (RT) Desk manages and optimizes short-tenor (Day-Ahead and Real-Time) power and gas positions in markets throughout the United States and Canada. The Real Time Scheduling Analyst provides dedicated support to our real-time power traders, hourly scheduling, data analytics, hourly reconciliations, trade entries, post analysis, data requests, and customer reporting. The scheduling analyst also provides general support for Real Time Traders, Asset Optimization Traders and front office commercial staff within a high-pressure, fast paced and demanding environment. The primary objective of the team is to minimize operational risk and maximize stakeholder value in the real-time North America electric power markets.
Responsibilities
- Work a continuous 12-hour shift alongside a real-time power trader for up to 7 days in a row including nights, weekends, and holidays
- Procure hourly transmission reservations and create electronic tags under the guidance of a real-time power trader
- Upload power market bids, offers, and schedules to the appropriate ISOs under the guidance of a real-time power trader
- Work with counterparties to set up paths and schedules. Ensure tags and transmission are properly implemented
- Analyze complex data to help traders and customers make decisions
- Provide real-time support to real-time traders and trade floor personnel, resolving operational issues quickly to minimize impact to business operations
- Work with Power Settlements and Risk to reconcile customer and Shell Energy's trade activity to invoices and Shell Energy's trade capture system to ensure correct and timely PNL reporting and cash flows/invoice processing.
- Maintain good working relationships with various stakeholders including trading business users, IT service partners and management, supplier partners, vendors and customers
- Work with the real-time trading team and other IT operational teams, to coordinate effective resolutions to operational issues
- Develop and continuously improve data handling, report generation and IT processes on Shell’s Azure framework
- Ensure that all required processes and procedures are followed, facilitate implementation of policy and procedure changes as required
- Develop tools to leverage and analyze archived market data in a meaningful way.
- Utilize ETRM systems and applications to simplify energy and ancillary reporting to stakeholders as needed
- Standardize and internally distribute daily reports
- Interface with in-house Trading Software to develop