Commodities Middle Office Analyst

JR United Kingdom; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international energy trading company seeks a Commodities Middle Office Analyst in Birmingham. This role offers a chance to enhance your career within commodities trading, providing responsibilities that require a keen eye for detail and strong analytical skills. Join a dynamic team and gain insights from industry experts as you navigate a path of career development.

Qualifications

• At least 1 year of experience in Commodity Trading.
• Strong communication and analytical skills.
• Comfortable working with large data sets.

Responsibilities

• Production of daily P&L reports ensuring precision and integrity.
• Monitoring trading activity and highlighting unusual patterns.
• Supporting month-end financial processes and explaining provisions.

Skills

Communication

Detail Orientation

Problem Solving

Data Analysis

Commercial Awareness

Education

Quantitative-Based Degree (Economics, Finance)

Job description

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Commodities Middle Office Analyst, Birmingham

Client:

Richard James Recruitment Specialists Ltd

Location:

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Views:

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Posted:

04.06.2025

Expiry Date:

19.07.2025

Job Description:

Our client is a very successful international Energy Trading company with access to all key markets worldwide…

This role offers an excellent opportunity to further develop skills and responsibility within a growing and successful commodity trading business.

For the right candidate, this role offers an excellent opportunity to further develop, or acquire, the key skills and knowledge required to advance within the energy trading industry. This role will provide a clear path to career development and an opportunity to learn from industry experts.

Key Role Responsibilities:

• Production of daily P&L reports and consolidation of all trade book reports, ensuring their precision, consistency and integrity
• Resolving queries from traders or other departments relating to P&L impacting topics
• Raising queries to traders when proposed booking changes or business practices are unclear
• Bringing awareness and understanding to the impacts of deal changes or bookings to different departments, considering how it will impact them
• Validation of physical commodities (LNG, Gas and Coal) and derivative deal entries ensure an accurate valuation within our ETRM
• Ownership of maintaining price curves and associated calendars
• Understanding the different funding requirements for futures and forwards and how it impacts various stakeholders
• Responsibility of the relationship with clearing brokers and clearing banks
• Monitoring the trading activity; highlighting and reporting unusual activity.
• Support Market and Credit risk monitoring
• Understanding and ability to calculate the impacts of IR and FX on P&L, working with the Treasury team to ensure the impacts are expected and hedges are correct or executed when required
• Supporting Finance in month-end financial closing processes explaining any provision requirements for the business
• Summary reporting (e.g. weekly, monthly) on key analytics
• Synergize with other teams based in London to add value to each other’s tasks as well as gain greater insight for colleagues based in Singapore
• Proposing and implementing innovative, more accurate and more efficient processes and calculation methods
• Ownership of the Contract and confirmation management for financial trades
• There may be business travel required.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

• At least 1 year of experience working in a Commodity Trading environment
• Economics, finance or similar quantitative-based degree
• Confident and clear communication style – the ability to deliver ideas, ask for an explanation when unsure and challenge others when best compliant practice is not applied
• Consistent detail while under pressure - the ability to work logically, quickly, and accurately while handling multiple tasks
• Comfortable with large data sets - effectively display and explain analysis for management
• Commercial awareness - Adaptive approach to problem-solving and the ability to work effectively as part of a culturally diverse team based in Singapore
• Capable of working autonomously - organising workloads and managing delivery and expectation of the front office on behalf of the team in Singapore