Middle Office Analyst

CA SEARCH PTE. LTD.; Serangoon Garden Circus; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the energy sector seeks a Finance Analyst to oversee daily P&L operations, ensuring accuracy in reporting and cross-departmental communication. Ideal candidates will have a Bachelor's in Economics/Finance and 3-5 years of experience in trading environments. Responsibilities include report generation, query resolution, and collaboration with teams across locations to enhance efficiency.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience in energy or commodity trading.
• Proficient in data analytics and visualization tools.
• Strong communication abilities and comfort with large data sets.

Responsibilities

• Produce and consolidate daily P&L reports.
• Resolve queries related to P&L impact.
• Maintain relationships with clearing brokers and banks.

Skills

Data analytics

Communication

Problem solving

Commercial awareness

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Economics/Finance or quantitative focused

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Alteryx

Python

Job description

THE ROLE

• Produce daily P&L reports and consolidate all trade book reports, ensuring its precision, consistency and integrity
• Resolve queries from traders or other departments relating to P&L impacting topics
• Raise queries to traders when proposed booking changes or business practices are unclear
• Bring awareness and understanding to the impacts of deal changes or bookings to different departments, considering how it will impact them
• Validate physical commodity and derivative deal entries ensure an accurate valuation within our ETRM
• Ownership of maintaining price curves and associated calendars
• Understand the different funding requirements for futures and forwards and how it impacts various stakeholders
• Maintain relationship with clearing brokers and clearing banks
• Monitor trading activity; highlight and report unusual activity.
• Support Market and Credit risk monitoring
• 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
• Support 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 gaining a greater insight for colleagues based in Singapore
• Propose and implement innovative, more accurate and more efficient processes and calculation methods
• Ownership of the Contract and confirmation management for financial trades

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s Degree in Economics/ Finance or quantitative focused
• 3 to 5 years of relevant work experience within an energy or commodity trading environment
• Good understanding and experience in data analytics and visualization tools – e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx and/or Python
• Knowledge in GARP ERP or GARP SCR will be an added advantage.
• Able to support the team based on UK calendar on rotational basis
• Confident and clear communication style – ability to deliver ideas, ask for explanation when unsure and challenge others when best compliant practice is not applied
• Able to work logically, quickly, and accurately while handling multiple tasks
• Comfortable with large data sets
• Commercial awareness - Adaptive approach to problem solving
• Organise workloads and manage delivery/expectation of front office