EDF Trading
Contracts and Settlements Analyst
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Contracts and Settlements Analyst
Entry Level/Junior Manager – Trade Confirmations & Recapeurs, Contracts & Settlements
About the Role
When you join EDF Trading, you’ll become part of a diverse international team of experts who challenge conventional ideas, test new approaches, and think outside the box. Energy markets evolve rapidly, so our team needs to remain agile, flexible, and ready to spot opportunities across all the markets we trade: power, gas, LNG, LPG, oil, and environmental products.
EDF Group and our customers worldwide trust that their assets are managed by us in the most effective, efficient, and risk-controlled manner. Trading for over 20 years, experience makes us leaders in the field—Energy is what we do.
As part of an ever-diversifying team of around 750 colleagues in London, Paris, Singapore, and Houston, gender balance and inclusion are core to our culture. We offer a great range of benefits, including:
- Hybrid working (location-dependent)
- Personal pension plan
- Private medical & dental insurance
- Bi-annual health assessments
- Corporate gym memberships
- Electric car lease programme
- Childcare vouchers
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Season ticket loans
- Volunteering opportunities
- Regular social and networking events (physical & virtual)
Join us, make a difference, and help shape the future of energy.
Job Description – Contracts & Settlements (Trade Confirmations & Recapeurs)
Department Purpose
The Contracts and Settlements department is a critical support function enabling EDF Trading to tightly control its commercial activities and process transactions with a wide range of counterparties. The team acts as the enabler for front-to-back operations, ensuring effective risk management controls—mitigating operational, financial, and reputational risks.
JavaScript offers a transition. A global leader becomes one. Us then, because we are investing to make EDF Trading a fully connected, dynamic, customer-focused and world-best electricity business.
Position Purpose
The role focuses on validating and processing all traded positions entered by the company, with key responsibilities including:
- Ensuring timely delivery of trade confirmations
- Matching these electronically where possible
- Investigating counterparty recaps and reconciling mismatches
- Monitor electronic confirmation failures
- Promote electronic matching adoption among counterparties
- Support continuous improvement of processes & procedures
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Primary goal: Maintain the integrity of the company’s traded position and associated profitability (P&L) while adhering to departmental KPIs.
Main Responsibilities
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Validations & Reconciliation
- Reconcile broker recaps and investigate mismatches promptly.
- Layer quick validity checks before entering trade execution systems.
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Trade Confirmations
- Draft and review counterparty confirmations to ensure accuracy.
- Ensure timely dispatch of confirming trio (aperçu, aperçu-emission, and confirmation), with agreements correctly upheld.
- Automate digital signings where possible.
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Electronic Matching
- Monitor and troubleshoot electronic confirmation failures, driving escalation & resolution where necessary.
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Process Improvement
- Regularly review, document, and enhance workflows and procedures to mitigate risks.
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Compliance & Communication
- Cross-circuit KPI monitoring to meet team performance benchmarks.
- Customer-facing inquiries & support to address counterparty disputes efficiently.
- Build trusted internal relationships with trading, clearing, and front office teams.
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Relationship Management
- Advocate and foster use of electronic matching platforms with counterparties.
- Collaborate with both EDF Justice’s counterparts and several subsidiary markets (Gas, Power, and Emissions).
Experience & Skills Required
Ideal Profile
- 1–3 years experience in a Confirmations or Back Office role in energy markets (Gas, Power, or Emissions preferred).
- Strong understanding of trade lifecycle processes, including booking, amendment, and settlement.
- Visual, auditing, and tracking abilities to ensure trade reconciliation and process integrity.
- Working knowledge of Excel (level 2 proficient) for trade & reconciliation analysis.
- Numeracy and attention to detail with a motivation for daily operations and process improvement.
Technical Requirements
- Proficient in Excel/operational formats.
- Fluent in trade lifecycle processes, including booking logic, counterparties confirmations, and clearance flows.
- Ability to assess the soundness of client position sets, and identify inconsistencies.
Person Specification
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- Degree-level educated (or equivalent work experience).
- Fast learner and proactive solver who champions continuous improvement.
- Team player with confidence in multi-level communication (e.g., senior management):
- Demonstrates customer centricity with a focus on the participant’s operations and service.
- Works collaboratively to meet KPIs, maintaining a grid outlook of trading risk.
- Technically sound with a track record in ensuring strong accuracy standards.
Core Competencies
- Adaptability: Fluent in a rapidly changing environment (ability to adjust to trade volumes, market product mix).
- Relationship Management: Builds strong working relationships within business units, enabling cross-circuit information exchange.
- Resilience and Work Ethic: Commitment to upholding processes, even under pressure. Understands that perfection of data is absolute—no shortcuts.
- Composure and Attentiveness: Courage to challenge and enquire where needed, e.g., trade errors via data checks and process review.
- Analytical thinking: Problem-solving with structured approaches, based on EDF Trading best practices (structured, robust).
Hours & Working Environment
- Monday–Friday, 8:30am–5:30pm (40 hours per week).
- Highly digital operations, with hybrid/office-based work arrangements based on core responsibilities.
- Fast-paced, digital-first, and often technically demanding.
Our Culture & Work Ethic
Why EDF Trading?
We are a high-performing team that values sustainability, growth mentality, and collaboration. Mistakes are treated as learning experiences, fostering an environment where feedback drives solutions—never shame.
- Focus on ‘Currency of learning’—MPK (master perform and keep) approach validates knowledge transfer.
- Projects drive context, not just administrative checks.
- Continual learning and upskilling: Access to courses both in-house and through third party partners.
As a fast-moving organisation, you will never settle for good—only striving for your best everyday.
Join the Future of Energy
We target trust, harness discipline, and embrace flexibility as innovation. **Dream big, ask bold questions, and tackle each challenge with resilience—**because this is our Energy of Purpose.
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