Trading & Risk Endur Functional Consulting Manager

Overview

Accenture's Trading & Commercial Practice helps both Energy and Utilities companies across the commodity supply chain to transform and optimize commercial operations to compete in a digital world.

In today’s fast-changing and increasingly complex environment, commodity traders face growing challenges. Factors such as expanding data availability, shifts in asset ownership, the rise of retail marketing, and evolving market conditions are driving the need for new approaches to enterprise operations.

By collaborating with producers, traders, marketers, and end-users across the commodity supply chain, we enable you to enhance and optimize your commercial strategies and operations. Through the integration of digital solutions, we help transform your value chain to meet the demands of a dynamic market.

If you love solving challenges and not just studying them, then Accenture Consulting is the right place for you. Join us to develop your ideas into provocative points of view and transformative insights that help shape industries. You’ll work with an amazing and diverse mix of world-class experts with access to one of the most robust portfolios of capabilities and ecosystem relationships in the industry. Together, you’ll do so much more than consult.

Coming here means future-proofing your career and going as far as your ambition takes you. Becoming a tech-savvy, well-rounded, multi-disciplined and market-relevant advisor doesn’t happen by chance. We invest in training and development in a big way, so you can build your future along with ours, creating an impactful career unique to you. Ultimately, we believe we is greater than me and that diverse perspectives lead to the best solutions. Joining Accenture Consulting means you will learn, innovate and lead, and together we will improve the way the world works and lives.

The Work:

The Work

• Collaborate with clients to understand and analyze their Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM/ETRM) processes, focusing on the Endur platform and its functionality within energy, commodity trading, and risk management operations.
• Lead the functional design and implementation of Endur-based solutions, ensuring alignment with client business needs and regulatory requirements in commodity markets.
• Conduct requirements gathering sessions with stakeholders to define business objectives and create comprehensive functional specifications for Endur configurations and enhancements.
• Oversee system configuration and customization of Endur to meet client requirements, focusing on transaction capture, risk management, logistics, accounting, and reporting.
• Perform user acceptance testing (UAT), ensuring that all configurations and customizations function as expected and align with client expectations.
• Provide hands-on support during Endur implementation, ensuring smooth integration with other systems and optimal performance across the trading, risk, and finance teams.
• Work alongside technical teams to ensure data integration from upstream and downstream systems, ensuring consistency and accuracy in trading data.
• Deliver trainings and knowledge transfer to clients’ internal teams on Endur functionalities, ensuring long-term system utilization and self-sufficiency.
• Contribute to the development of best practices, project methodologies, and delivery strategies for Endur implementations and upgrades across commodity markets.
• Stay current on industry trends, regulatory changes, and Endur product updates to provide cutting-edge insights to clients and ensure their systems remain competitive.

Please note, we are ideally looking for people local to Houston, or those willing to relocate to the area.

What You Need

• 3+ years of experience with ETRM/CTRM OpenLink Endur, and a strong understanding of commodity trading, risk management, and financial operations.
• Solid experience in functional design, configuration, and customization of Endur, including transaction capture, risk management, accounting, and reporting.
• Proven experience working with commodity markets such as energy, natural gas, power, and renewable energy, with a focus on trading and risk processes.
• Experience conducting requirements gathering and collaborating with clients to define business needs, transforming them into actionable functional specifications for system configurations.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot issues related to system performance and business processes.
• At least 1 year of Consulting, or Consulting equivalent experience.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Excellent client-facing communication skills, with the ability to present complex technical details to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to travel up to 50% to client locations for project implementation and support.

Nice to Have

• Experience with other ETRM/CTRM systems such as Allegro, RightAngle, or TriplePoint.
• Knowledge of commodity trading regulations such as FERC, NERC, and CFTC compliance.
• Hands-on experience in data integration and systems connectivity within ETRM/CTRM platforms, integrating with other back-office systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle).
• Familiarity with renewable energy markets, including experience with Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), Renewable Energy Credits (RECs), and carbon trading.
• Experience with reporting tools, data analytics, and business intelligence platforms to enhance the usability of Endur data.
• Relevant industry certifications such as Energy Risk Professional (ERP), CFA, or FRM.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York or Washington as set forth below.

We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $94,400 to $293,800

Colorado $94,400 to $253,800

District of Columbia $100,500 to $270,300

Illinois $87,400 to $253,800

Minnesota $94,400 to $253,800

Maryland $94,400 to $253,800

New York/New Jersey $87,400 to $293,800

Washington $100,500 to $270,300

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