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Griepenstroh Personalvermittlung GmbH
Griepenstroh Personalvermittlung GmbH
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Griepenstroh Personalvermittlung GmbH is an owner-managed recruitment firm in Bremen, Germany, connecting employers with candidates for permanent roles. Since 2005, it has worked mainly with small and medium-sized businesses in Bremen and the surrounding area, recruiting across IT, tax and accounting, auditing, sales, and commercial functions such as marketing, human resources, and purchasing. The firm supports candidates through the hiring process, handles applications confidentially, and conducts direct searches for senior positions. Its Connect platform gives candidates a way to engage with its recruitment services.
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Senior Energy Trading Controller

Oversee trading margins, hedging, and tank inventory for an international energy trader. The role covers risk monitoring, valuation, forecasting, and management reporting.

DEGermany
€80,000 – €100,000 / year
HybridFull-timeSeniorGerman RequiredEnglish RequiredController
ERP

Description

  • Review purchases and sales of mineral oil products, biofuels, and other energy commodities
  • Track volumes, prices, and delivery dates from contract signing through storage or delivery
  • Reconcile trading contracts and physical movements with book and tank inventories
  • Investigate shortages, surpluses, and discrepancies across trading, storage, and accounting data
  • Calculate realized trading margins, including storage, freight, handling, and blending costs
  • Assess inventory values and their contribution to earnings
  • Analyze capital held in tank storage and its effect on working capital and liquidity
  • Match physical purchase and sales transactions with related hedges
  • Check that volumes, maturities, reference prices, and currencies are consistent
  • Track open positions and price, volume, basis, and currency exposures
  • Assess the financial effects of futures, swaps, forwards, and other price hedges
  • Prepare mark-to-market valuations
  • Monitor established limits and internal risk controls
  • Explain result changes by transaction, product, price movement, and hedge
  • Produce daily and monthly analyses of margins, inventories, open positions, and results
  • Develop KPIs for management, Finance, and Trading
  • Prepare forecasts, budgets, variance reviews, and profitability calculations
  • Support monthly, quarterly, and annual closes with valuations and accruals
  • Assess profitability by product, customer, contract, and trading period
  • Work with Trading, Accounting, management, and the Bremen tank terminal
  • Improve reporting, valuation, and control processes

Requirements

  • A degree in Business Administration, Economics, or a comparable field, focused on Controlling, Finance, or Accounting
  • Several years of experience in Controlling, Trading Controlling, Risk Management, or Financial Planning and Analysis
  • Strong understanding of margins, inventories, working capital, and complex physical commodity flows
  • Experience valuing and reconciling physical and financial positions
  • Knowledge of futures, swaps, forwards, or other price hedging instruments
  • Advanced Excel skills and familiarity with ERP, BI, or ETRM systems
  • Sound knowledge of accounting and financial statement preparation
  • Business fluent in German and proficient in English
  • Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and clear communication with Trading, Finance, and management
  • Experience in energy, mineral oil, fuel, or commodity trading is a strong advantage
  • Understanding of physical commodity flows and price hedging

Benefits

  • 13 monthly salary payments
  • 30 days of annual leave
  • Benefits card
  • Contribution toward a public transport pass
  • Permanent employment directly with the client
  • Modern office in central Hamburg
  • Hybrid work after onboarding, coordinated with the team
  • A responsible role connecting Trading, Finance, and the tank terminal
  • Direct interaction with the Managing Director
  • Short decision paths and broad scope to shape the role
  • International procurement and trading environment
  • Structured onboarding in the company’s trading and hedging processes
  • Remote work options
  • Ergonomic work equipment
  • Regular employee development conversations
  • Central city location

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