Trade Analyst

Do you enjoy working in a high pace environment and can you optimize the commercial margins while working on reducing the world’s carbon footprint? Maybe you are our new colleague that joins our trade team in Amsterdam.

About us

Argent Energy is a waste-based biodiesel producer with a vision to help decarbonise transport worldwide. Argent has 3 operational locations in Europe; Motherwell (Scotland), Stanlow (England) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands). At Argent we turn waste oils into low carbon fuel which significantly contributes to reducing the CO2 emissions of transport. We believe in using waste materials only and continuously search for new waste to be turned into higher value products. We invest in people and their development as well as R&D to drive innovation in products, technologies and operational excellence. We are highly entrepreneurial and are constantly acting on new opportunities.

Argent Energy is an expanding organisation and a leading waste based biodiesel producer with a vision to decarbonise transport globally. As part of the Swire Group Argent Energy has the backing and ambitions to strengthen its sustainability performance and be best in class. John Swire & Sons Ltd. stems from a family business founded in 1816, which has grown in 200 years into a global company with various participations in aviation, maritime, food, trading and industry.

About the job
The Trade Analyst will be a key role in supporting the trade team by analysing and optimising trade decisions whilst taking the ownership for trade compliance. Your colleagues in the team are responsible for buying raw materials and selling biodiesel and by-products while the Trade Analyst keeps the overview, optimize trade flows and commercial decision where possible and makes sure the Trade team follows the agreed processes. It’s a highly visible position in the organization where you will interact with many other departments including Supply Chain, Sustainability, Operations and Finance. Your performance directly impacts the bottom line of the company.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Optimise commercial margins: Work closely with the Trade team and other departments to optimize the book and commercial margins and evaluate day-to-day trade decisions. Drive data driven decision making and enhance current tools that support the team in the daily buying/selling decisions.
  
• Management reporting: Preparation of market risk report (i.e. daily exposure) and ad-hoc reporting/analysis as required by Senior Management. Report on commercial KPI’s such as sales volumes, production and trading margin, other commercial KPIs.
  
• Optimize trade processes: Pro-actively improve the processes within the trade team, standardize the way of working and eliminate the room for errors and enhance established control frameworks.
  
• Contract governance, systems and PowerBI: As the owner of the trade and execution policy you ensure the team follows the agreed internal & external processes. In addition you streamline our systems and PowerBI functionality to support better governance and decision making.
  
• Market analysis: Prepare market analysis (standard and ad-hoc) and presentation materials for management meetings. Develop new reports and analysis to meet reporting requirements of the Traders and Management.