POSITION: emsTradepoint Market Analyst

REPORTING TO: Manager, emsTradepoint Limited

LOCATION: Wellington

OUR PURPOSE:
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CONTRIBUTION TO TRANSPOWER:
The Market Analyst is part of emsTradepoint, a wholly owned subsidiary of Transpower. emsTradepoint
owns and operates a physical commodity exchange focusing on natural gas. The team faciliates trading on
the proprietary trading system and develops product listings, execution methods, systems and
technologies to deliver meaningful services to customers.

This position plays a key role in the team and provides support on all emsTradepoint operations and
market developments in order to ensure industry leading levels of customer satisfaction for participants
and strategic partners.

The role is responsible for core operational tasks as follows:

▪ Support of the daily operations of the emsTradepoint market.
▪ Development and maintenance of business processes.
▪ Undertaking and preparing market analysis and trading reports.
▪ Proactive customer support and problem resolution.
▪ Undertaking analyses to inform risk management, financial control and development.
▪ Assist in business development activities.
▪ Development of business cases and papers to Management as and when required.

WHO YOU WILL BE PARTNERING & WORKING WITH:

Internal:
• emsTradepoint staff and General Manager
• emsTradepoint Board of Directors
• Support staff within Transpower including
Finance and Legal
• EMS Development team
External:
• emsTradepoint customers / participants
• Industry participants and governing bodies
• Technology service providers

WHAT YOU ARE EXPECTED TO DELIVER:

Operational Support
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• Monitor the emsTradepoint market on an intra-day basis and
provide first point-of-call support / respond to queries for
customers.
• Undertake regular (daily, weekly, monthly) market operations
processes.
• Develop operational and diagnostic / alerting systems and
processes, and contribute to on-going process improvement.
• Monitor and maintain compliance with emsTradepoint’s Market
Rules and relevant pipeline operating codes.

Reporting and Analytics
Market Development Support
Positive Team Contribution
Maintain Transpower’s Health &
Safety culture
• Manage system incidents and resolution, and comply with best
practices that are produced after conducting an investigation on
any major issue.
• Provide training on emsTradepoint’s trading system and
operations to customers.
• Prepare training materials, market notices and other information
documents on the market and technology.
• Prepare and develop regular (currently weekly) Market Wrap
reports for participants.
• Support annual reports on market performance and ad-hoc
reports on industry developments.
• Assist in reporting to the General Manager, Finance and the Board.
• Keep abreast of regulatory change and industry environment, and
assist in evaluating the impact of any change on emsTradepoint’s
operations.
• Assist the team in the development, modification and testing of
necessary support infrastructure and tools to support new product
releases.
• Identify opportunitites for service enhancements.
• Promote and contribute to a positive team environment -
encourage and support the immediate and wider team to work
collaboratively to deliver on team priorities and emsTradepoint’s
strategic goals.
• Identify and implement continuous business improvement
opportunities.
• Carry out related duties, as required.
• Knowledgeable about Transpower’s Health and Safety policies and
procedures.
• Know how to apply Health and Safety principles to achieve a safe
and positive working environment.
• Take personal responsibility for one’s own health and safety and
that of other employees and relevant stakeholders.
• Take appropriate action to deal with workplace hazards and
incidents in ways that comply with Health and Safety policies,
procedures, systems and best practice.
• Strive for continual improvement in Health and Safety
performance.
• Positively contribute to delivering a safe, zero harm workplace.

WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU - KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS:

Essential:
• Excellent numerical competence and accuracy, including ability to work with spreadsheets
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills
• Effective customer management and customer satisfaction skills
• Demonstrated self-confidence, self-control, and self-reliance
• Ability to manage crises and escalations
• Excellent written, oral and presentation skills

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• Ability to develop an understanding of gas transmission and operating codes
Desirable:
• Tertiary qualification in maths, sciences, engineering, or equivalent business experience.
• Knowledge in gas transmission and associated codes; market design and operations and/or
energy/commodity trading.

BEHAVIOURS YOU ARE EXPECTED TO CONSISTENTLY DEMONSTRATE:

Provide CLARITY by:
• Understanding how our roles relate to our wider goals
• Understanding the problem we are trying to solve
• Knowing what great outcomes look like
• Finding a way to explain matters in a way our audience understands
• Being upfront and clear about progress against commitments

COLLABORATE effectively by:

• Actively listening to each other and respecting others’ perspectives
• Assuming good will and keeping a positive intent to work things out
• Working as one Transpower team – the whole is more important than any one of the parts
• Seeing our work and our performance through the eyes of our customer
• Embracing difference as a way of driving higher performance

Take personal ACCOUNTABILITY for:

• Getting yourself and your workmates home safe every day
• Finding a way forward when it gets hard
• Owning our successes and our mistakes – learning not blaming
• Behaving well and challenging when others are not
• Committing to our own development and engagement

Make DELIVERY happen by:

• Knowing our decision rights and understanding with whom and when we need to collaborate
• Doing what we say we will and doing it well
• Knowing that what we deliver creates value and tracking that value
• Making every dollar count
• Constantly looking for new and better ways to do things

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