Commodities Trading Business Analyst – Oil, Gas, Power, Physicals recruitment
IT Front Office Commodities Business Analyst – Investment Bank
- Summary
- Senior Business Analyst working in the commodities IT team in London to support the global commodities trading business. Provide expertise in commodities and the Trading System system. Work closely with Traders, Risk Managers, Quants, Developers, Product Control and Back Office staff to deliver solutions to business problems on both project based and desk based work. Act as subject matter expert within the team and advise other IT team members.
- Key responsibilities
- Enable the delivery of Commodities IT Projects
- Assist the Commodities business to trade new products.
- Introduce new functionality and advise on best way of trading new products on the trading system.
- Advise on design of Commodities IT systems to support trading activities.
- Some mentoring of junior staff may be required, and training of other team members.
- Liaising with offshore teams
- Key skills
- Minimum 5 years in years experience with front office financial systems implementation
- Exposure to a Front Office Commodities Trading software package
- Experience in commodity products/instruments and OTC derivatives
- Experience working in a front office trading environment
- Knowledge of front to back systems and processes required to trade in an investment bank.
- Knowledge of a wide range of trade types including swaps, Options, listed and OTC, swaptions
- Must understand market data dependencies, interpolation, discount factors, yield curves, and other valuation related concepts
- Exposure to any ETRM system would be ideal
The Business Analyst will work on a wide range of projects including a large front to back ETRM and trading system implementation, on boarding of new products, successful candidates will gain exposure to both derivatives and physical commodities trading over a wider range of asset classes including oil, gas, power, emissions, coal, physical oil, physical gas and freight.
January 5, 2012
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