Context & Environment

Working at TotalEnergies

At TotalEnergies we are committed to balancing flexibility while fostering strong relationships among our team members. Our field site employees work together to build teamwork through collaboration. This position is in Houston, Texas.

Why Join Us?

• Be part of a global energy trading leader with a strong presence in North America.
• Work in a high-impact role with visibility to senior leadership.
• Thrive in a collaborative, innovative, and fast-paced environment .
• Enjoy opportunities for career growth and international collaboration .

Ready to lead the future of energy trading?
Apply now and bring your analytical edge to a team that powers progress.

Activities

About the Role

This position is based in Houston and sits within the Global Risk Control department, reporting directly to the Middle Office Manager. The job holder will play a critical role in supporting the Trading Desks by measuring, analyzing, and monitoring key financial metrics, including:

• Profit & Loss (P&L)
• Exposure across trading portfolios
• Value at Risk (VaR)

The role encompasses oversight of both U.S. and global energy markets, requiring a strong understanding of market dynamics and risk management principles. The successful candidate will contribute to maintaining robust risk controls and ensuring transparency across trading activities.

What You'll Do

As part of the Global Risk Control Organization, contributed to key risk control processes across entities under the team's international scope:

• Lead risk management oversight for Power trading activities, including open position monitoring, valuation controls, and mark-to-market (MTM) valuation.
• Deliver daily analysis and explanations of key metrics and limit breaches.
• Coordinate deal and price validation within the trading system, performing deal checks, curve updates, and data reconciliation.
• Ensure timely deal capture and compliance with internal trading limits and risk policies to maintain transactional integrity.
• Apply critical thinking to risk reporting and exposure analysis across TGPNA's multi-product trading portfolio.
• Evaluate forward price movements, maintained and enhanced risk models, and tested new risk calculations.
• Assess model assumptions against market fundamentals and proposed improvements for valuation accuracy and risk quantification.
• Collaborate closely with Traders to identify, quantify, and explain portfolio risk drivers, supporting strategic decision-making.
• Support senior management reporting, contributing to the preparation and communication of trading results and position summaries.

Candidate Profile

You are someone who possesses the following experience and credentials:

Education/Experience

• Degree qualified in economics/finance/business/mathematics or quantitative discipline.

• Comprehensive understanding of risk management methodologies and valuation models.

• Solid understanding of MTM, VaR and quantifying position exposures and other Risk Metrics along with Power Risk Management experience particularly in North American power ISOs, more specifically ERCOT, PJM and CAISO.

• Strong understanding of Power pricing structure including experience in validating power prices with external sources.

Skills

• Power BI, Python, or other data management software like Alteryx.

• High degree of accuracy and efficiency under set deadlines.

• High levels of flexibility with regard working hours.

**TotalEnergies regrets that it is unable to sponsor employment Visas or consider individuals on time-limited visa status for this position.

Additional Information

TotalEnergies values diversity, promotes individual growth and offers equal opportunity careers.

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At TotalEnergies we know that you're more than what's on your CV. If this opportunity excites you, but your profile doesn't exactly match the description above...give it a try & apply. Diversity of perspectives & experiences make us stronger.

TotalEnergies is a multi-energy company that produces and markets energies on a global scale: oil and biofuels, natural gas and green gases, renewables and electricity. Our 105,000 employees are committed to energy that is ever more affordable, clean, reliable and accessible to as many people as possible. Active in more than 130 countries, TotalEnergies puts sustainable development in all its dimensions at the heart of its projects and operations to contribute to the well-being of people.

TotalEnergies Gas and Power (TGP) is the trading arm of TotalEnergies in the field of low carbon energies (mainly gas, LNG and power). As such it operates in fast-evolving market dynamics influenced by internal and external factors that require constant adaptation and evolution. Uncertainties specific to the trading environment (volatility of prices, supply & demand mismatches) are coupled with those coming from the broader energy sector (climate change policies, changes in the energy mix, developments of new energy sources, etc). In such context TGP helps to ensure growth and profitability to a key segment of the business in order to reach the objective of Carbon Neutrality by 2050.

Our Culture :
We are committed to meet the energy needs of a growing population while fulfilling our ambition to be a major player in the energy transition. The volatility of the energy trading markets requires excellence in risk management and a culture of innovation.

Our people flourish in an environment that promotes expertise, entrepreneurship spirit, agility and a purpose-driven culture, generating boundless opportunities to learn, grow and achieve collaborative success while ensuring safety in all our operations.

We look for passion, ambition and open-mindedness. While we evolve in a demanding and ever-changing industry, we cultivate a friendly workplace where team spirit and respect guide our daily routine, and where the diversity of our people and their skills create a nourishing experience for all of us.