Senior Commercial Operations Analyst in Birmingham

Location: Birmingham, GB, B37 7YE

Country/Region: GB

Contract type: Limited (Maternity Cover)

Working hours: Full time

Start Date: ASAP

Deadline: 08/04/2026

We have a maternity cover opportunity supporting our Trading Operations team.

We are Uniper. At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst at the same time ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams with the greatest possible working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply as well as pro-actively help to shape changes. Interested? Then we will look forward to meeting you!

Your responsibilities:

• Provide effective and well controlled settlement services to the trading function – all deals settled on time and accurately.
• Provide challenge to the trading function, ensuring processes and controls are consistently applied.
• Support the development of new products working alongside stakeholders.
• Independently align with the Front Office teams, with Credit Risk, Tax, Accounting, and with all other required stakeholders to ensure correct, timely and efficient settlement is performed by the team.
• Ensure timely and accurate processing of trades including validation, data quality management, implementation, settlement and documentation.
• Be the point of contact for audit processes.
• Ensure tracking and administration of internal controls as well as KPIs.
• Identify and steer optimization potentials - working with the team to drive initiatives to simplify, standardize and automate processes within the department based on the Operational Excellence principles.
• Manage (Sub-) projects as well as collaborate with other teams in projects.
• Occasional travel to Dusseldorf will be required.

Your profile:

• Educational or professional background in economics/accounting/business administration or similar areas.
• Experience in commodity markets, in deal validation, pre-settlement and settlement tasks.
• Ability to work with Front Office teams on very high value transactions, under time pressure.
• Experience working with SAP and ETRMs.
• Excellent analytical skills and good knowledge of MS Office services.
• UK commodity market knowledge.
• Experience working as team lead.
• Distinctive customer orientation and focus on customer satisfaction and continuous improvement.

At Uniper, we not only reward our employees with attractive salaries, an excellent company pension and health related benefits for their hard work and dedication to shaping the future energy transition. You can also expect a supportive working culture that offers a wide range of creative and innovative ideas. We enable various flexible working arrangements, whilst also supporting with home office equipment.

Through regular training and workshops, together we work towards visualising yourself in our company as if it were your own. We support you in highlighting your individual potential, achieving your personal goals, and reaching your ambitions. We invite you to become part of our diverse company with international colleagues from more than 80 countries.

As an employer, Uniper has committed itself to providing special support to certain areas:

• Personal development and Learning opportunities.
• Enhanced company pension – With up to 12% company contributions.
• 26 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays.
• Electric vehicle charging at our sites.
• In house Occupational Health Services.
• Company funded Private Medical Insurance including free GP service.
• Performance related benefits.
• Access to a range of flexible benefits such as Share Incentive Plan, Dental, Critical Illness and Life Insurance, Cycle2Work, or buy and sell extra holiday.
• Future career opportunities (UK & International) with a strong focus on Diversity Equity and Inclusion.

Our employees are the reason for our success. Therefore, you will find many other benefits at the local level to help you reach your potential. Energy evolutionary wanted!

Your contact:

Should you have any questions about this opportunity, please contact the UK Talent Acquisition Manager at dominic.lindsey@uniper.energy. Please note, any CV's sent via email would not be taken into consideration. All CV's must be submitted via the online application process only.

As an employer, Uniper is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. Therefore, we encourage applications from suitably qualified individuals whose capabilities match the role requirements regardless of gender, origin, disability, age, religion, ideology, sexual identity or marital status. We live inclusion and support flexible working.