Commodities Middle Office VP – Gas & Power

Metric; New York (NY); Sur place; USD 130 000 - 180 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Metric, a growing global macro hedge fund, is seeking a Commodities Middle Office professional focused on North American natural gas and power markets. You will support gas and power trading desks across the trade lifecycle, ensuring accurate trade capture, position monitoring, and risk reporting.

You will work closely with Front Office, Risk, Finance, and Technology to strengthen controls, automate workflows, and contribute to scalable middle-office infrastructure as the commodities business

Qualifications

• Experience in commodities middle office or trading operations.
• Strong understanding of North American natural gas and power markets.
• Familiarity with trade lifecycle, position reconciliations, P&L validation and risk reporting.
• Proficiency in Excel; experience with SQL, Python, VBA or commodities trading/risk systems is advantageous.

Responsabilités

• Provide day-to-day middle-office support to gas and power trading desks, ensuring trades are accurately captured, validated and processed.
• Monitor daily positions, exposures and P&L across natural gas and power portfolios, investigating discrepancies and escalating issues.
• Oversee trade lifecycle activity, including confirmations, settlements, invoicing and contract amendments.
• Reconcile trading system records against brokers, exchanges, clearing brokers and external counterparties.
• Support daily risk reporting, position validation and end-of-day controls in partnership with traders and risk teams.
• Monitor physical and financial contract activity, including futures, options and swaps.
• Investigate trade breaks, valuation differences and operational exceptions, ensuring timely resolution.

Connaissances

Middle office

Trade support

Analytical skills

Excel

SQL

Python

VBA

North American gas

Outils

SQL

Python

VBA

Excel

Description du poste

A growing global macro hedge fund is looking to hire a Commodities Middle Office professional with a strong focus on North American natural gas and power markets.

This is an opportunity to work directly with traders and investment professionals in a fast-paced environment, supporting physical and financial commodities activity across the trade lifecycle. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring accurate trade capture, position monitoring, P&L validation and risk reporting, while helping strengthen operational processes as the business grows.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day middle-office support to gas and power trading desks, ensuring trades are accurately captured, validated and processed.
• Monitor daily positions, exposures and P&L across natural gas and power portfolios, investigating discrepancies and escalating issues where necessary.
• Oversee trade lifecycle activity, including confirmations, settlements, invoicing and contract amendments.
• Reconcile trading system records against brokers, exchanges, clearing brokers and external counterparties.
• Support daily risk reporting, position validation and end-of-day controls in partnership with traders and risk teams.
• Monitor physical and financial contract activity, including futures, options, swaps and other energy derivatives.
• Investigate trade breaks, valuation differences and operational exceptions, ensuring timely resolution.
• Work closely with Front Office, Risk, Finance, Technology and external service providers to maintain robust operational controls.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, enhance reporting and automate manual workflows.
• Contribute to the development of middle-office infrastructure as the commodities business expands.

Experience & Background

• Experience in commodities middle office, trade support or trading operations within a hedge fund, trading house, investment bank or energy company.
• Strong understanding of North American natural gas and power markets, ideally across both physical and financial products.
• Familiarity with the trade lifecycle, position reconciliations, P&L validation and risk reporting.
• Exposure to energy derivatives, including futures, options and swaps.
• Understanding of exchange-traded and OTC commodities products, trade confirmations and settlement processes.
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to investigate complex discrepancies independently.
• Proficiency in Excel; experience with SQL, Python, VBA or commodities trading and risk systems would be advantageous.
• Comfortable working closely with traders in a high-pressure, fast-moving environment.

Why Consider This Role?

• Join a growing hedge fund with an active commodities trading strategy.
• Gain direct exposure to natural gas and power trading across North American markets.
• Work closely with Front Office and contribute to the development of the operational platform.
• Take ownership of processes and help drive improvements as the business scales.