Business Performance & Strategy Manager

Business Performance & Strategy Manager

• Full-time

Company Description

We are the world’s largest independent energy and commodities trading company. Every day we use our expertise and logistical networks to distribute energy around the world, efficiently and responsibly. From 40 offices worldwide, we seek to add value across the energy supply chain, including deploying our scale and market understanding to help facilitate the energy transition. To date, we have committed over $1 billion of capital to renewable projects, and are identifying and developing low-carbon opportunities around the world.

Our people are our business. Talent is precious to us and we create an environment in which individuals can reach their full potential, unhindered by hierarchy. Our team comprises more than 65 nationalities and we are committed to developing and sustaining a diverse work force. Learn more about us here.

Job Description

Your mission

Turn numbers into decisions. You will sit within Finance and partner closely with C-level Executives, Trading, Treasury, Finance, Risk, and other key functions to distil complex commercial and financial data into sharp actionable insights that move the P&L and/or materially mitigate key risks. You also change processes and/or implement new IT systems to drive results.

What you’ll do

• Drive performance analytics: Build from a blank sheet in Excel to explain P&L drivers, margins, exposures and working capital; deliver variance bridges, sensitivities and stress tests that withstand challenge.
• Create decision frameworks: Structure ambiguous problems, design hypotheses, and build modular models to evaluate scenarios, risk-reward and expected value for new products/markets.
• Executive storytelling: Produce crisp, board-ready narratives and 1-pagers that cut through complexity; recommend clear go/no-go calls and next actions.
• Management reporting: Define KPIs and design live dashboards capable of providing instant high-level strategic insight and detailed granularity when needed.
• Strategy reviews: Lead periodic desk and regional reviews; identify value levers and drive next steps.
• New business analysis: Size opportunities, assess risks, design operating models for entries in new markets.
• Change leadership: Pilot, iterate and land new reporting/processes; track adoption and measurable impact.

Qualifications

• Proven top performance: 2 years at a top-tier strategy or M&A role (MBB strongly preferred) or an equivalently rigorous strategy/finance role in markets. Top-decile performer.
• Academics: Top-tier University degree in Economics, Finance, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or related field.
• Elite Excel: Fast, precise, creative. Dynamic arrays, nested logic, model structuring, scenario/sensitivity analysis, large-data pivots; Power Query/Power Pivot.
• Quantitative edge: You’re fearless with numbers and ambiguity; strong intuition for economics, statistics, risk and value drivers; can zoom from cell-level detail to first-principles theory.
• Executive-grade communication: Clear logic, concise writing, clean visuals, and presence with senior stakeholders.
• Ownership and pace: Bias to action, high standards, sound judgment.
• High EQ, you are humble, understand the importance of relationships and human connections and act accordingly.

Additional Information

Nice to have (not required)

• Python for analysis/data shaping (e.g., pandas).
• Power BI/Automate for executive dashboards.
• Prior exposure to commodities/energy or derivatives; familiarity with trading/risk data.

What success looks like in 12 months

• Measurable uplifts in desk profitability or capital efficiency tied to your analyses.
• Process change and/or system design that improves forecast accuracy and cuts cycle time materially for a key business process.

Interview process

• Expect 5 interviews (usually grouped in 2 steps), including brain teasers, mental math, a business case and an Excel-based working session. Final interview and hiring decision will be made by Group CIO.