Manager, Portfolio Valuation

Powering Australian Life.

At AGL, we believe energy makes life better. That’s why we’re passionate about powering the way Australians live, work and move.

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As life changes, we join the change, constantly evolving over 185 years. Today we bring all that know-how to transform how Australians produce, share and consume energy. We’re investing in new ideas, partnerships and infrastructure - renewing and expanding our portfolio of sources and products to help make them more sustainable, reliable, affordable and useful.

We’ll continue to innovate in energy and other essential services to enhance the way Australians live, and to help preserve the world around us for future generations.

About the Role:
This role leads the Portfolio Valuation team, which is responsible for designing and implementing an automated daily revaluation of the trading portfolio across all commodities (e.g. power, green, gas, oil, coal) including both financial and physical components. Once the system and related business processes has been implemented, the team will move to an operating phase and be responsible for the ongoing daily output, including the analysis and interpretation of the revaluation as well as responding to ad-hoc queries from key stakeholders.

The team will also develop continued system development including new components, improvements to valuation methodology and/or building on the analytical and reporting offerings. This role will need to work collaboratively with the Trading and Risk team to succeed given the cross dependencies across system and processes that exist.

This role is a 14 month contract position (parental leave cover).

What you’ll be doing:

- Design valuation methodology that best represent AGL’s portfolio and in collaboration with key business stakeholders including Trading and Risk teams
- Manage the design and implementation of an systemised re-valuation of financial and physical exposures
- Lead the end-to-end system development process from capturing business requirements through to delivering and testing the changes with AGL’s technology team
- Understand how the valuation system interacts with other systems and process, including trade capture systems, derivative valuation and risk analytics tools.
- Act as a change champion as the new systems and processes are embedded into the BAU activities of the Trading and Risk teams
- Deliver accurate daily P&L reporting with changes between reporting periods for key business stakeholders
- Be responsible for employee performance, development and succession planning for your team of two.

About You:
You have advanced analytical and technical skills combined with a keen interest in risk analytics or portfolio valuation techniques. You enjoy the challenge of tackling ambiguity and solving complex problems with a systematic deliberate approach. You have experience managing a complex system and/or business process implementation with multiple resources and collaboration with internal stakeholders.

What you’ll bring to the table:

- Strong numerical analysis skills including the ability to deal with large and complex data sets
- An ability to identify and deliver improvements to business processes and data flows
- Working experience with trading risk systems and portfolio valuation techniques
- Understanding of financial instruments and/or commodity markets
- Data governance, data management and database skills (SQL, Python, etc)
- Experience managing a team including training, recruiting and developing talent
- Advanced ability to problem solve and deal with ambiguity
- Excellent communication skills including ability to distil complex concepts
- Tertiary qualifications in a quantitative discipline

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Job Family Group:
Energy Marketing and Trading