Graduate - Commodity Trader

Commerzbank AG; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading corporate banking and capital markets organisation is seeking a Commodity Trader Graduate in London. The role involves collaborating with senior traders, managing risks, and developing complex trading strategies to enhance client relations. Candidates need strong analytical skills, a solid educational background in quantitative disciplines, and a passion for the finance sector.

Qualifications

• Graduated in the last 12 months or graduating in 2025.
• Minimum 2.1 UK bachelor's degree (or equivalent).
• Business knowledge from a previous internship within Financial Services.

Responsibilities

• Work with senior traders to produce risk management and P&L reports.
• Pricing of all commodity payoffs following sales requests.
• Monitor current market levels and competitor pricing.

Skills

Numerical skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Entrepreneurial attitude

Team player

Education

Degree in Mathematics

Degree in Physics

Degree in Engineering

Degree in Econometrics

Tools

Microsoft Office

VBA

Python

Job description

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Recruitment Partner at Commerzbank AG via LevelUP HCS | BCom (Hons) Human Resource Management Graduate

A leading corporate banking and capital markets organisation is seeking a Commodity Trader Graduate to join their team in London.

Main Purpose of the role:

Commerzbank Corporates clients (CC) is the integrated Corporate and Investment Banking division of Commerzbank AG.

CC provides corporate and institutional clients with a broad range of commercial and investment banking products. It is active in Europe’s most important markets with main offices in Frankfurt and London.

The business incorporates capital markets activities in commodities, interest rates and foreign exchange with a strong focus on derivatives. It provides clients with capital and debt raising solutions and offers its customers access to a broad range of investment and risk management products across all major asset classes.

The Commodity trading team within Financial Markets (FM) is a product specialist team with the responsibility of Market making and risk managing the whole Commodity products suit of the bank. This includes Precious metals, Base metals, Oil & Gas, Power, Carbon and Agricultural products.

Our clients are corporates who manage their commodity price risk; and their banks that act as their counterparties when Commerzbank has no relationship with the end-client.

We provide tailor made Commodity hedging solutions to our clients across the globe. We design complex Commodity trading strategies to maximize the value of our client franchise and optimize the P&L for the bank.

Key Activities and Competencies:

The role will be as a Graduate – Commodity trader and involve:

• Work with senior traders to produce risk management and P&L reports.
• Gain a solid understanding of all Commodities derivatives products.
• Pricing of all commodity payoffs following sales requests.
• Work with senior traders to produce risk management and P&L reports.
• Use VBA programming or similar language to support the automation of daily trading tasks.
• Idea generation: keeping on top of market, political and economic trends, developing an understanding of relevant issues in the market, and conveying this understanding to sales, in order to facilitate the sales process.
• Structure, price, trade and manage positions on Commodities in order to exploit and develop the bank's core client franchise in a risk controlled, capital efficient and cost effective manner.
• You will be responsible for effectively market making, managing risk and keeping senior staff informed of current risk positions, being up to date with the rules and regulations of the markets and exchanges in which you trade and ensuring an accurate mark-to market of the trading book at all times.
• Typical activities will include monitoring of current market levels and competitor pricing, marking the trading books and making available such market data across the Commodity platform, reconciling and ensuring accuracy of Risk and Profit & Loss figures on a daily basis.
• Moreover, you will need to develop technical, market, product and technological expertise in a fashion consistent with the strategic aims of the business and coordinate projects, monitor performance against objectives and ensure timely delivery. Typical instruments traded will include futures/forwards, swaps and options.

Key Requirements:

• Graduated in the last 12 months or graduating in 2025.
• The successful candidate is likely to be educated to degree level in Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Econometrics, or similar highly quantitative discipline.
• Expected to or have achieved a minimum 2.1 UK bachelors degree (or equivalent)
• Excellent numerical and analytical skills.
• Solid problem-solving abilities.
• Strong commercial mindset and high communication skills.
• High entrepreneurial attitude required to develop a business.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Business knowledge from a previous internship within Financial Services
• Solid understanding of derivatives products at a theoretical and practical level.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Experience in at least one programming language (VBA, Python, etc…)
• Team player

Seniority level

• Seniority level

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• Industries

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