Settlements Analyst

**Bring your analytical skills and experience in a fast-paced environment**:

- **Hybrid working combining office-based and work from home**:

- **Based in George St, Sydney CBD with wonderful harbour views**

**About Alinta Energy**:
**At Alinta Energy, we’re constantly striving to do better. Whether it’s lowering customers costs, providing world class local service or sustainable energy, our aim is to be better. And to keep getting better day after day. Better for our customers. Better for Australia. And better for our environment.**

We’re a leading Australian utility with an owned and contracted generation portfolio of 3,000MW, over 1 million combined electricity and gas retail customers, and around 1,000 employees across Australia and New Zealand. Supplying energy in Australia for over 20 years, today we’re a vertically integrated energy company providing generation, retail and wholesale supply of gas and electricity across Australia. We support the development of renewable energy generation and offer local customer service through support hubs in Perth, Western Australia, and Morwell in Victoria.

**Our Culture**:
It’s an exciting time to become a part of our growing team at Alinta Energy. Our people are our greatest asset and we’re committed to a culture that’s focused on being better at providing great service externally and internally. An organisation where people truly matter. That’s better.

**About the role**:
We are looking for an experienced Settlements Analyst to join our Finance Services team on a permanent full-time basis. Reporting to the Team Leader, Settlements, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with other business areas within Alinta and third parties (counterparties and brokers).

The purpose of the Settlements Analyst role is to support the accurate & timely delivery of Electricity, Gas, Environmental, Treasury, Futures and OTC trades in Alinta’s trading systems, that the transactions are reconciled and recorded in Alinta’s general ledger and settled.

In achieving this purpose, the analyst provides data into Alinta’s general ledger for further reporting, and to the trading & treasury teams.

**Duties**:

- Invoicing & Settlement of trades, prepare receivable invoices and validate payable invoices and prepare postings
- Month-end Accruals and Journals, preparation of the EOM Accruals for open trades
- Trade Data & Contract Review, interpret new contracts with a focus on understanding settlement deliverables
- Validate trade details between counterparties, brokers & Alinta’s trading system

**Skills and experience**:

- Degree in Commerce, Economics, Mathematics, Data Science or other relevant numeric discipline
- Experience in electricity, gas, financial or derivative markets
- Strong attention to detail and sound communication skills
- Strong numeric skills and MS Excel experience (essential), hands-on experience in SQL or Python or other analytics tools (desirable)
- Ability to work in a team environment and effectively prioritise workload

This is a great opportunity for an experienced Settlements Analyst who is looking to continue working in the Energy industry working in a supportive, welcoming, and professional environment.

**Benefits**:

- Hybrid working arrangements for most roles, combining office-based and work from home
- Staff energy discount offer (where products are available)
- Generous employee referral bonus
- Salary Packaging options
- Paid community volunteer leave
- Access to LinkedIn learning
- Discount program for a range of products and services
- 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave
- Company paid salary continuance insurance
- Ability to purchase additional leave
- Modern offices with free snacks, drinks, and coffee

Let’s spread the positive energy together

Alinta Energy is a **Circle Back Initiative** employer - we commit to respond to every applicant.

**How to apply**: