Specialist, Trade Control

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Your Opportunity

One Permanent Full Time Position.

Capital Power is seeking an experienced Trade Control Specialist to join our Commodity Risk Management team. In this critical Middle Office role, you will ensure the integrity, accuracy, and compliance of daily trading operations. You'll oversee deal validation and confirmations, maintain compliance and exception reporting, and verify key data for settlement and risk purposes.

This position also develops and executes robust trading and risk controls, supports audit inquiries, and ensures all trading activities align with risk policies, delegated authorities, and internal limits. Additionally, you'll ensure accurate deal capture in the ETRM system and configure workflows to support validations, confirmations, amendments, and settlements.

You will contribute to our team by:

• Oversee the daily new deal checkout process and validate transaction accuracy in the ETRM system.
• Confirm bilateral transactions and review incoming confirmations for discrepancies against ETRM records.
• Prepare and send trade confirmations to counterparties promptly.
• Maintain a centralized audit log to track late deal entries, amendments, missing price data, and other data management requirements supporting trade compliance exception reporting.
• Produce internal trade compliance exception reports to ensure visibility and transparency of process and control effectiveness.
• Source and validate actual data for settlement and invoicing purposes; perform periodic independent validation of calculations and data used for risk reporting and quantification.
• Develop, maintain, and execute Middle Office and Risk controls.
• Support internal and external audit inquiries related to trading, hedging, and risk management activities.
• Ensure all strategies and transactions comply with risk policy, delegation of authority, and internal limits.
• Verify that proposed and existing deals are accurately captured in the ETRM system and workflows are configured to support validations, confirmations, amendments, and settlements.

What you will bring to the role:

Education:

• Post-secondary education related to auditing, business, economics, finance, and/or risk management; related experience or education may be considered as an equivalent.
• Professional designation in a related field an asset (e.g., PRM, FRM, ERP, CFA).

Experience:

• 2+ years of trade control, operations, or middle office roles within trading, commodities, or financial services.
• Experience with deal validation, confirmations, exception reporting, and compliance.
• Exposure to ETRM systems and supporting audit inquiries.

Technical Skills:

• Intermediate Microsoft Excel and Office Suite.
• Intermediate ETRM system and SQL proficiency.
• Data validation for settlement, invoicing, and risk quantification.
• Basic understanding of markets, commodities and trading concepts.
• High attention to detail and accuracy in transaction validation.
• Strong organizational and documentation skills.
• Effective communication for confirmations and audit support.
• Professionalism, reliability, and ability to work collaboratively.
• Ability to identify and resolve discrepancies and exceptions.

Working Conditions:

• Hybrid Office/Work from home position, with possible very minimal travel to meet business users at Capital Power facilities or other offices.

Additional Details:

This position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.

Clearance of Credit check is required for this position.

In order to be considered for this role you must be legally eligible to work in Canada. The successful candidate for this position will undergo an education verification, reference checks and criminal record check.

Capital Power employees that refer a successful candidate for this position are eligible for a $ 500 Referral Reward

We believe that creating a culture that supports employee physical, mental, financial, and social wellbeing is critical to our success. That is why we provide flexible and affordable employee benefits, retirement savings, and paid time off programs. We also provide comprehensive onboarding, training, and programs supporting your career development.

Depending on the posting requirements relocation assistance may be available.

How To Apply and Next Steps

Capital Power only accepts resumes via online application at . If you choose to submit your resume by any other means, we cannot guarantee that your application will be considered for vacancies.

Applicants with disabilities who require a reasonable accommodation to complete their application can request accessible formats, communication support, or other accessibility assistance by contacting .

Capital Power is committed to providing a fair and transparent hiring process. We recognize and embrace the value of diversity and hire employees with the appropriate skills, experience and knowledge for each position.

Thank you for taking the time to apply and expressing interest in powering a sustainable future with Capital Power We wish that we could personally respond to everyone who applies; however, it is our practice to contact only those individuals selected for interviews.