Description

Job Description

Accenture's Trading & Commercial Practice helps both Energy and Utilities companies across the commodity supply chain to transform and optimize commercial operations to compete in a digital world.

In today's fast-changing and increasingly complex environment, commodity traders face growing challenges. Factors such as expanding data availability, shifts in asset ownership, the rise of retail marketing, and evolving market conditions are driving the need for new approaches to enterprise operations.

By collaborating with producers, traders, marketers, and end-users across the commodity supply chain, we enable you to enhance and optimize your commercial strategies and operations. Through the integration of digital solutions, we help transform your value chain to meet the demands of a dynamic market.

If you love solving challenges and not just studying them, then Accenture Consulting is the right place for you. Join us to develop your ideas into provocative points of view and transformative insights that help shape industries. You'll work with an amazing and diverse mix of world-class experts with access to one of the most robust portfolios of capabilities and ecosystem relationships in the industry. Together, you'll do so much more than consult.

Please note: We are ideally looking for candidates who are local to Houston, or who have a desire to relocate to Houston.

The Work

• Collaborate with clients to understand and analyze their Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM/ETRM) processes, with a focus on the Allegro platform and its role within energy, commodity trading, and risk management operations.
• Lead the functional design and implementation of Allegro-based solutions, ensuring alignment with client business needs and regulatory requirements across commodity markets.
• Conduct requirements-gathering sessions with key stakeholders to define business objectives and develop comprehensive functional specifications for Allegro configurations and enhancements.
• Oversee system configuration and customization of Allegro to meet client requirements, including transaction capture, risk management, logistics, accounting, and reporting.
• Manage and support user acceptance testing (UAT), ensuring all configurations and customizations perform as expected and meet client expectations.
• Provide hands-on support throughout Allegro implementations, ensuring smooth integration with upstream and downstream systems and optimal performance across trading, risk, and finance teams.
• Partner closely with technical teams to enable accurate data integration, ensuring consistency and integrity of trading and risk data across systems.
• Deliver training and knowledge transfer to client teams on Allegro functionality, promoting long-term system adoption and self-sufficiency.
• Contribute to the development of best practices, delivery methodologies, and implementation strategies for Allegro deployments and upgrades across commodity markets.
• Stay current on industry trends, regulatory changes, and Allegro product updates to provide forward-looking insights and ensure client solutions remain competitive.

Qualification

What You Need

• At least 3 years of Allegro ETRM Expertise (Natural Gas): Demonstrated, hands-on experience configuring and delivering Allegro solutions across core Natural Gas modules, including:
  • Trade capture and deal templates (physical and financial natural gas)
  • Logistics and scheduling (EBB nominations, pathing, balancing, pipeline/point/reference data alignment)
  • Risk, P&L, and exposure management (positions, valuation curves, mark-to-market)
  • Settlements and close (pricing, statement reconciliation, GL interfaces)
  • Interfaces and integrations (ICE/chat trade capture, market and pricing data, ERP/GL integrations, custom UIs)
    

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  Natural Gas Business Knowledge: Strong practical understanding of pipeline protocols, storage logistics, capacity release, imbalance management, and month-end activities including actualization, accruals, and reconciliation.
• Delivery Management: Proven experience leading small consulting teams and coordinating onshore/offshore delivery, with strength in governance, budgeting, risk and issue management, and stakeholder engagement.
• Testing & Controls: Experience designing testing strategies, validating data, and implementing controls to support auditability and compliant close processes.
• Client-Facing Communication Skills: Ability to translate complex trading and process concepts into clear solution designs and actionable plans for commercial desk stakeholders and IT partners.

Nice to Have

• Prior experience working in or consulting for energy trading organizations with a focus on natural gas.
• Exposure to regulatory and compliance considerations impacting gas trading, scheduling, and settlements.
• Experience supporting system upgrades, enhancements, or multi-release Allegro programs.
• Familiarity with adjacent CTRM/ETRM platforms or downstream finance and accounting systems.

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Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $63,800 to $205,800

Cleveland $59,100 to $164,600

Colorado $63,800 to $177,800

District of Columbia $68,000 to $189,300

Illinois $59,100 to $177,800

Maryland $63,800 to $177,800

Massachusetts $63,800 to $189,300

Minnesota $63,800 to $177,800

New York/New Jersey $59,100 to $205,800

Washington $68,000 to $189,300

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Locations

Houston, TX

Austin, TX

Irving, TX

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