Deals Desk Analyst, Oil

Responsibilities

• Ability to independently justify the economics in each trading strategy in the oil sector.
• Understand the forward curve on daily basis for physical and derivative markets to current position and to explain the impact on the trading PnL.
• Produce daily commentary for board of directors / traders to explain the daily changes in the trading profit and loss due to market changes/change in estimated/actual economics for the physical and derivative oil trading strategies
• Analyse exposure and report profit and loss including derivatives and physical exposure.
• Monitor data entry of new business in the Mark to Market System.
• Ensure all market price risk is captured and hedge actions executed.
• Assess implication of changes to future physical deliveries, report, and discuss impact of hedge strategy.
• Creation and maintenance of ad-hoc reports to assist in any area of position reporting /structure/hedging.
• Full responsibility of data integrity held within the trading systems.
• Produce comprehensive lookback analysis of Trading strategies, combining key risk metrics with review of historical performance.
• Liaising with other key departments of Credit, Tax, Accounting and Scheduling to ensure smooth functioning of the day-to-day business translates into accurate reporting on a daily basis
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with IT to constantly improve proprietary Trading and Risk Management systems. Ensuring all basis risk and volumetric positions are correct and appropriate hedge actions taken, and that all executions are correctly allocated within trading system.
• Required Qualifications
• Bachelor or Master's degree in Finance or related field
• Minimum of 1 year exposure to market risk management in Energy
• Minimum of 1 years of experience in physical & derivatives Energy markets inclusive of its underlying structures and instruments, preferred in the Oil Sector
• Solid understanding of trading models and trading strategies and exposures that arise out of them

Requirements

• CFA charter-holder/candidate
• Python / SQL coding skills
• Oil Exposure
• Attributes for success
• Ownership: Takes responsibility for accuracy and timely resolution of issues and deadlines
• Attention to Detail : Demonstrates diligence and solid understand of receivables, challenge the results of what has been produced prior to distributing it.
• Challenge: Thrives to improve processes and procedures to maximise efficiency.
• Organizational Skills : Manages multiple priorities while maintaining data integrity
• Resilience : Thrives in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment with competing priorities
• Communication : Negotiates effectively, problem solving and make recommendations
• Key Relationships
• Deals Desk Management
• Regional Senior Management
• Finance
• Chartering
• Credit
• Demurrage
• Tax
• Compliance
• Deals Desk team
• Department Overview
• Equal Opportunity Employer
• We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status,

Additional Information

Main Purpose As a Risk Analyst for Oil you will ensure maintenance and improvement of core PnL data to increase accuracy and timeliness of the daily trading results. All responsibilities and accountabilities of the role remain based the core principles of risk management, the factors that drive them change on an hour-by-hour, day by day basis as the company discovers new and innovative ways to generate a wide and truly diversified portfolio. You will be part of the team who is also responsible for the production and reporting of daily trading positions and management P&L, production and monitoring of daily trading P&L and volumetric exposure reports, post deal review and system reconciliation, enter inception PnL for all new trading strategies, and maintain the economics on these strategies throughout the trade lifecycle. Join the Calgary-based Deals Desk Team, reporting to the Deals Desk Team Lead with professional communication directed to the Global Product Manager.

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