Head of Middle Office
- Lead the Middle Office team, ensuring smooth daily operations across trading and wholesale activities
- Oversee and control the full deal life cycle, including trade capture, daily validation, amendments, rebookings, and accurate representation in systems
- Owns data quality for dependent functions, including Accounting, Risk, and Front Office,
- Lead the New Product Approval process
- Control trading books, monitor exposures, physical positions, and storage completeness, and support complex flows such as LNG, storage, and cross-border capacity
- Develop and implement new operational controls, processes, and coordinate operational excellence projects
- Owns daily, weekly, and monthly reports, including Operational KPIs, P&L, and reconciliations between trading and accounting systems
- Collaborate closely with Front Office, Back Office, Finance, and Treasury to maintain accurate and efficient operations
- Drives team development, performance, and ensures adherence to operational standards and best practices
Qualifications
- Proven experience in middle office operations, ideally within energy trading (gas, LNG, or power markets)
- Strong knowledge of trade capture, validation, and deal management processes
- Solid understanding of risk monitoring, exposure controls, and physical positions, including storage
- Experience with monthly closing, reconciliation, and alignment between trading systems and accounting
- Experience using ENDUR, implementing and improving operational controls, processes and projects
- Ability to manage and lead a team, ensuring smooth daily operations and accountability
- Familiarity with complex trading flows, including LNG, storage, and cross-border capacity
- Strong reporting, presentation, and stakeholder communication skills, including with FO, BO, finance, and treasury
- English fluency is mandatory
Additional Information
- An international environment and workforce with ca. 60 nationalities, with a commitment to respect, diversity and integrity
- Career growth and development at one of Switzerland's Top Employers
- Highly competitive remuneration system, above-market earning potential via our unique performance-based bonus schemes, reflecting the value we place on dedication and results
- Work in a flat organizational structure with best-in-class industry experts, promoting individual ideas, rapid decision-making, and high accountability
- A rapidly growing company entering new markets globally and expanding its asset portfolio worldwide, with substantial investment into green energy (renewables) assets
- Benefit from international career opportunities and internal mobility within our 17 globally located offices
- Engaging annual company events, from group-level teambuilding to local entity events and festive celebrations
- Top-notch office facilities