Derivatives Business Analyst – Commodities Trading House | £800/Day Outside IR35 | 2-3 days off[...]

VirtueTech Recruitment Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading commodities trading house seeks a Derivatives Business Analyst for a long-term contract role focused on improving trading capabilities. The successful candidate will work closely with front office users, enhance trading systems, and drive transformation projects. Candidates should have extensive experience in derivatives trading, preferably within energy, and be adept in stakeholder communication and collaborative approaches.

Qualifications

• 5 years’ experience as an IT Business Analyst in Trading.
• Understanding of American and European Options, Greeks, Futures and Forwards.
• Front / middle office knowledge; pricing and valuation.

Responsibilities

• Work with users to identify needs and create solutions.
• Perform system or data analysis to identify changes.
• Create documentation and backlogs of user stories.

Skills

Derivatives Trading

Stakeholder Communication

System Analysis

Agile Methodology

Waterfall Methodology

Job description

Derivatives Business Analyst – Commodities Trading House | £800/Day Outside IR35 | 2-3 days office, LDN

Derivatives Business Analyst – Commodities Trading House | £800/Day Outside IR35 | 2-3 days office, LDN

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Derivatives Business Analyst – Commodities Trading House | £800/Day Outside IR35 | 2-3 days office, LDN

Commodities & Energy Trading House are going through a technology landscape transformation. They are looking for some key Business Analysts for long term engagements to be the link between their front office traders and development.

This Derivatives Business Analyst role will be focussed on improving and changing the Front Office Derivatives Trading capabilities. You will work with users from across the business and cover functionality across the end-to-end trade lifecycle for Physical and Derivatives trading.

As such, this Derivatives Business Analyst should have extensive experience with Derivatives trading across any asset class, prior experience working in the front office and communicating with stakeholders such as traders, as well as tech / development teams.

As a Derivatives Business Analyst, you will work with both front office and middle office users, with direct desk access on the trading floor, gaining exposure across end-to-end trade lifecycle for physical and Derivatives trading. An understanding of American and European Options, Greeks, Futures and Forwards will be crucial.

As a Derivatives Business Analyst, you will be focused on helping the migration of the Derivatives trading system, which underpins their physical trading systems, across to an ETRM from an in-house legacy build. You will be required to be proactive in engaging with users and working with them in a collaborative and open manner. You must take ownership of creating structured documentation (e.g. backlogs of user stories) and be able to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical individual.

Day rates: Up to £800/Day Outside IR35

Location of work: Hybrid. 2-3 days from the office, LDN

Expertise: Derivatives Trading experience across any asset class (Energy Trading preferred but not required)

Duties of the Derivatives Business Analyst:

• Working with the users to identify their needs
• Creating worked examples, mock-ups, test cases or similar to help users understand their requirements and potential solution options
• Performing hands-on system or data analysis to identify changes (e.g. to usage, to configuration or to class-event)
• Able to work in both an Agile and Waterfall methodology

Experience needed for the Derivatives Business Analyst:

• 5 years’ experience as an IT Business Analyst in Trading
• Derivatives Trading experience – Physicals is a bonus as is prior Commodities/Energy Trading
• Understanding of; American and European Options, Greeks, Futures and Forwards
• Front / middle office knowledge; pricing and valuation (P&L, risk exposure, etc.)

If you are interested in this Derivatives Business Analyst role. Please reply with your latest CV or send it direct to [e-mail]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting and Energy Technology

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