Senior Trade Operations Analyst

About us:

CFP Energy is a leading specialist in carbon and environmental markets, helping large corporate organisations to navigate complex regulatory environments and volatile market conditions.  

With 20 years of experience, CFP Energy has built deep expertise across all major compliance carbon markets in Europe, including the EU and UK ETS. Operating from 9 offices across Europe, CFP Energy provides access to environmental markets alongside a broader suite of services across voluntary carbon, biofuels and financial products. The company supports businesses through market access services and tailored financial solutions that unlock liquidity and enable investment, supporting wider commercial growth. 

With cross-commodity access and a fully integrated offering across environmental, biofuels, and financial services, CFP Energy acts as a strategic partner for organisations navigating the energy transition. 

About the role:

The Senior Trade Operations Analyst is responsible for the post-trade administration, settlement and control of physical and financial energy transactions across European gas, power and environmental markets, with a primary focus on the Dutch market, including supply contracts and market access contracts.
 
The role ensures the accurate validation, confirmation, invoicing, settlement and reconciliation of trading activities while maintaining compliance with contractual, regulatory and internal control requirements. The position acts as a key interface between Front Office, Risk, Finance, Treasury, counterparties, exchanges, transmission system operators and regulatory bodies.

Key responsibilities

Trade Validation & Confirmation Management

• Validate trade bookings for physical and financial gas, power and environmental products; resolve booking discrepancies between trading systems, exchanges and counterparties.

Confirmations Management

• Draft, issue, receive and reconcile OTC trade confirmations under EFET and ISDA master agreements, ensuring timely dispatch and electronic matching where applicable, monitor daily aging queue and escalate in line with agreed policies
• Resolve confirmation exceptions and contractual discrepancies.
• Ensure confirmations for exchange-traded and cleared products are matched and reconciled against exchange records (EPEX Spot, Nord Pool, ICE Endex, EEX).

Settlements & Invoicing

• Perform end-to-end settlement calculations for physical and financial commodity transactions across gas, power (including supply and PPA contracts) and environmental markets.
• Monitor supplier switching, meter point reconciliations, EAN registration and BRP changes with TenneT and GTS for the Dutch portfolio.
• Resolve metering exceptions across the end-to-end metering data flow.
• Generate, validate and process customer and counterparty invoices, including credit notes and fee invoices to independent suppliers and investigate and resolve disputes.
• Manage prepayments: validate estimates, issue pre-payment invoices and true-up against actual metering data.
• Validate and process TSO, DSO, exchange, clearing house, broker and market operator invoices.
• Manage accounts receivable and accounts payable processes relating to energy trading activities.

Energy Tax and Levies

• Support Dutch Energy Tax (Energiebelasting) calculations and associated reporting requirements.
• Support Finance and Tax teams during audits and regulatory reviews.

Environmental Products Operations

• Support settlements, inventory/registry reconciliation and transfers/retirements for Guarantees of Origin (GOs), EU Emissions Allowances (EUAs), UK Allowances (UKAs) and other environmental products.
• Reconcile environmental certificate positions against registry accounts and trading systems.

Reconciliations & Controls

• Perform daily and monthly trade, position, settlement and cash reconciliations.
• Reconcile exchange statements, broker statements and clearing house reports.
• Investigate and resolve reconciliation breaks.

Ideal Candidate: 

• Back-office or operations experience in physical power and/or gas supply, with substantive hands-on exposure to physical billing and metering management.
• Understanding of Dutch and European gas and power markets, including familiarity with the TTF gas hub, EPEX Spot power markets, TenneT and GTS as TSOs is strongly preferred.
• Experience supporting settlements, reconciliations and invoicing activities across European energy exchanges, including EPEX Spot, Nord Pool, ICE Endex and EEX, is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with EFET General Agreement, ISDA Master Agreement and associated CSA/credit support documentation. Understanding of commodity trade lifecycle processes from execution to settlement.
• Knowledge of Guarantees of Origin (GOs), EU ETS / UK ETS allowances and familiarity with REC / iRECS agreements is beneficial.
• Familiarity with Dutch Energiebelasting (EB) rate structures, EAN-level bracket calculations, consumer exemptions and the Belastingdienst remittance process is an advantage.
• Strong Excel and data analysis skills are essential.
• Experience using AI tools (e.g. large language models, automation platforms) to improve operational workflows, analyse data or draft documentation is beneficial.

Benefits

The CF Group is committed to ensuring equal opportunities, fairness of treatment, dignity and respect, and the elimination of all forms of discrimination in the workplace for all employees/contractors and job applicants.