Leader Deal Handling (Trade Support)

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Personal Qualities

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We’re 23,000 colleagues in more than 30 countries delivering oil, gas, wind and solar power to 170 million people worldwide. Taking on tough energy challenges is our job. Right now, we’re facing an enormous task: supplying the world with the energy it needs, while lowering emissions.

We’re up for the challenge. Are you?

The position

By joining our team in Marketing, Midstream & Processing you will have the opportunity to:

• Be part of a strong leadership team and hold overall accountability for Trade Settlement & Trade Assistance throughout the contract lifecycle, ensuring efficiency within the function across multiple energy commodities.
• Uphold financial compliance across deliveries including, strong focus on SOX and other regulatory requirements. 
• Lead the team by advising, developing, and engaging people. Ensure our success as one flexible and global team within our global operating model. 
• Shape and drive operational transformation; improvements, digitalisation, and efficiency activities. 
• Deliver through the energy transition; support the trading business by being an enabler for business both today and tomorrow. 
• Ensure deal handling becomes a high performing business partner through being commercially driven, having transparent performance, creating additional value for the business, and developing relevant network and relationships. 
• Be responsible for sound deliveries and continuous improvement of annual processes and deliveries from the team. 

You will be leading the Trade Settlement & Trade Assistance function in Singapore, a diverse team of 10 highly competent personnel with varying backgrounds. The team is divided into two sub-teams, Deal Handling (DH) Settlement (physical cargo and other cost invoicing), and Trade Assistance (Deal entry and trade support), both with a broad range of tasks with a strong collaboration internally and across functions.   
 
The team is key in ensuring financial settlement, cash assurance, trade support and compliant and efficient operations to Equinor’s trading business. 

You

Some qualities are essential for Equinor. You identify with our values, open, collaborative, courageous and caring, which guide our decisions and help us succeed and grow. You make safety your priority and contribute to our zero-harm culture. For this position, we are also looking for:

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience as a leader, with proven leadership capabilities and the ability to shape, empower and deliver in the relevant context. 
• Background or experience in Trading Operations, preferably from Trade Settlements and / or Trade Assistance in a commodity context.
• Minimum bachelor’s degree, preferably in a numerical or economical related subject.
• A good understanding of operational and commercial risk picture and how to mitigate.
• Strong commercial mindset with passion for improving the business and how we work, and the ability to add value to the business results. 
• Outstanding communication & collaboration skills with the ability to build strong working relationships and networks.
• Preferable experience from Commodity Trading of Crude Oil and Oil Products and/or Finance & Control functions.

General information

Please attach copies of your diplomas, certificates and grades in English or a Scandinavian language. Applications submitted without necessary attachments will unfortunately not be evaluated. If you are in the process of completing a degree, please upload an official temporary transcript or other document describing subjects and grades completed to this point.

Candidates are expected to openly offer all relevant information about themselves during the recruitment process. All permanent and temporary hires will be screened against relevant sanctions lists to ensure compliance with sanctions law. Furthermore, background checks are performed on all final candidates.