Commodities Trading - Associate

Job Description:

You will assist Senior Traders to monetize derivative client flow via the sales desk, to price it to monetize client value as efficiently as possible.

• To use liquidity from client flow to proficiently maximize revenue
• Develop and maintain analytical tools for fundamental analysis
• Manage daily tasks such as marking books, market commentary, and other internal processes.
• Work together with other internal groups such as sales, QR, and other trading teams

Job Responsibilities:      

• Appropriately sizes, understands, and manages risk in the portfolio commercially             
• Take into consideration, risk, credit costs and the modest environment when pricing           
• Managing client risk in order to minimize and capture client value efficiently       
• Proactively runs risk with educated views on underlying markets in order to create added value from that client flow    
• Distils complex ideas or structures into meaningful communications         
• Enhances reputation of firm through expertise, professionalism, and maturity in verbal and written communications      
• Builds and leverages partnerships to deliver the whole firm to clients

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• The ideal candidate should have: the ability to work well under pressure, with several people of different nationalities and personalities; and a high degree of initiative and commitment
• Minimum Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in trading energy products
• Strong understanding of commodities infrastructure 
• Strong computational skills in Python, SQL, and/or other programming languages, preferred