Operations Advisor

For a prestigious multinational company, leader in the oil and energy sector, we are looking for an Operations Advisor based in Italy.

**Posizione**:
The Operations Advisor is responsible for the flawless delivery of natural gas and power to customers in Italy:

- Balancing Group management
- Transport logistics
- Customer demand forecasting
- Interface between Italian Sales/Supply office/owners of other relevant contracts in the Italian portfolio

**In this role, you will**:

- Work within a highly professional sub-team that is responsible for customer demand allocations and forecasting
- Contribute to minimizing portfolio imbalances and imbalance cost which is the central KPI for the team
- Ensure an efficient consumptions/allocations management based on data flow received
- Ensure top quartile performance in managing imbalance cost is a key success factor for the company competitiveness
- Liaise with grid operators, customers, sales and other business functions
- Develop your learning and learning culture within Operations and maintain an open and trustful partnership with commercial teams and functions
- Be held accountable for your HSSE, Compliance and Regulatory obligations

**You will be responsible for**:
Allocation processing:

- Analysis of the definitive allocations
- Allocation rules at city-gates/point of deliveries
- Portal management
- Back-testing and monitoring actual data in E4c forecasting tool

Capacity management:

- Registering/recording booked capacities
- Planning and booking the transport city gate/exit capacities through TSOs procedures

Checking and process steer on the nominations:

- Receiving/collecting the nominations from the supplied partners (Traders)
- Processing the collected nominations, preparing the nominations to the Transmission System Operator (TSO), Distribution System Operator (DSOs) and suppliers
- Executing daily, weekly, monthly nominations to the TSO, DSOs and Suppliers
- PSV: Managing and execution of gas exchange transactions based on supply/swap/sales deals

Contract management for Operations’ contracts:

- Cooperating with commercial and financial departments
- Processing the TSO, DSO contracts (amendments) and Bank guarantees.
- Operations customer service

Data management and reports for Operations:

- Set up and maintain databases and calculations
- Preparing internal (accounting) and external (Energy Regulator) reports

Non-Core Gas Operations Activities:

- Sales support activities
- Regulatory monitoring

**Ensuring a Support/back-up for the following ones**:

- Monitoring the forecasting system and the tools used in the daily work
- Setting up and maintaining forecasting models for customers
- Monitoring the portfolio and running daily forecasting processes, aiming at operational excellence and continuous improvement
- Keeping track of correct volume flow information as basis for forecasting
- Establishing and maintaining customer interaction aiming at improving system generated forecasts
- Continuously reviewing new deal pipeline and preparing forecasting process for new customers
- Providing sales and other teams with advice on aspects relevant for forecasting both during deal making process and delivery
- Monitoring relevant regulatory development especially regarding balancing rules and imbalance regime
- Continuously analysing and improving efficiency and performance of the forecasting system and associated processes to ensure they remain fit for purpose
- Working with grid operators, customers, traders, originators and other business functions to ensure operational risks are understood, effectively managed and new capabilities are developed in a robust and timely manner
- Checking and process steer on the nominations
- Analysis of the definitive allocations/consumptions.
- Monitor network maintenance and shutdown of I&C customers

**Requisiti**:

- A key challenge in this role is the combination of commercial responsibility and operational excellence, which requires high commitment to the day-to-day business, often within fixed and tight deadlines
- The incumbent needs to quickly acquire a very good understanding of the relevant regulatory rules and procedures in the Italian natural gas and power market and to keep up with the ongoing development
- Operational excellence is essential: Errors can have a significant impact on SEI's bottom-line, set priorities, continuously deliver accurate results and look out for process improvements.
- University degree in engineering, economics or similar
- Demonstrated analytical and advanced numerical skills
- Affinity to and experience with relevant business IT tools - very good knowledge of Excel
- Affinity to quantitative modeling, experience with statistical methods (multiple regression, neural network) desirable
- Strong commercial mindset
- Proactive behavior, excellent time management and work organization
- Good communication skills in Italian and English
- Preferably experience (3+ years’ expe