The position duties are as follows: Provide operational support in furtherance of strategic initiatives to Castleton's commercial business, including the onboarding of new trading desks, expansion of trading businesses into new markets and products across CCI's global energy commodity product line, and oversight of significant corporate projects. Daily job duties include:

-Lead onboarding and strategic projects across CCI's global trading and global asset footprint;

-Oversee new business and new asset implementation efforts including documentation of business and system requirements, facilitating cross-functional discussions, ownership of system setup and testing, project planning, and coordinating task completion across functional areas (Trading, Risk, P&L, Tax, Technology, Ops, Accounting);

-Coordinate the setup of new exchange products across functions, and establish operational risk and control processes and metrics for new business and trading activities;

-Support commercial business in diligence and approvals of new initiatives;

-Onboard and provide support to new commercial resources (i.e., traders);

-Perform organization and tracking of offboarding commercial resources (i.e., traders);

-Ensure cross-functional coordination across CCI support groups, connecting new initiatives into existing global processes, and working with functional area owners on definition and implementation of non-standard processes, where applicable;

-Partner with the IT organization on system requirements, prioritization, and enhancements rollout including oversight of specifications, process documentation, system configuration, data governance, and UAT testing; and

-Ad-hoc strategic and/or corporate projects and initiatives.

Role may supervise 1-2 peers with the title of Associate, Strategic Initiatives (SOC Code 15-2031.00, Operations Research Analysts), subject to business needs. No hire/fire authority.

The position requires a Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Engineering, Computer Science, a closely-related field or foreign equivalent, followed by 3 years of experience in any occupation where trade support and operations experience in the energy and commodities industry was gained. Experience must include:

-1 year of experience leading cross-departmental initiatives;

-2 years of experience with ETRM systems;

-3 years of trade lifecycle experience with Oil Trading;

-3 years of experience with P&L reporting;

-3 years of experience with trade valuation methodologies; and

-1 year of experience onboarding new business lines in financial and physical markets.

Employee Programs & Benefits:

CCI offers competitive benefits and programs to support our employees, their families and local communities. These include:

• Competitive comprehensive medical, dental, retirement and life insurance benefits


• Employee assistance & wellness programs


• Parental and family leave policies


• CCI in the Community: Each office has a Charity Committee and as a part of this program employees are allocated 2 days annually to volunteer at the selected charities.


• Charitable contribution match program


• Tuition assistance & reimbursement


• Quarterly Innovation & Collaboration Awards


• Employee discount program, including access to fitness facilities


• Competitive paid time off


• Continued learning opportunities