Trading Risk Analyst

Who we are

Boba Commodities are a successful, rapidly growing commodities trading firm with the wider purpose of investing into a better future for us all.

Our vision

To invest our trading profits into community enhancing businesses across the globe that share our values.

Our mission

Through our trading strategies, maximise the opportunity in the commodities and other markets to help us realise our vision.

We believe

Social value and long‑term profit are inextricably linked.

We carry this philosophy through to the role we play in the commodities markets.

As part of this belief, we have ensured we are a carbon negative company, meaning we seek to double offset our carbon footprint, backdated from our inception as a company.

Where we are in our journey

From being founded in 2013, we have grown significantly over the past 4‑5 years.

We are now looking to scale our technology infrastructure and levels of automation of our trading processes.

We are looking for a Trading Risk Analyst to help scale, inform, protect and enhance our trading performance, through effective trade execution and risk management.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys the challenge of trading commodities markets, the financial mathematics and continually finding ways to learn and improve.

You will thrive here if you care about your work, have high standards, and a strong drive to make the whole team more effective.

Our values

• We believe in 80/20, the pursuit of non‑perfectionism: We ensure we are always focused on the most impactful drivers and results and what achieves the highest value over time spent.

We move fast and get things done.

• Adapt & Evolve: We are agile and growth oriented.

We won’t get everything right first time, but we are open‑minded to learning from mistakes and failures.

We adapt and evolve whenever needed, and rely on honest, direct and timely feedback from each other.

• Best Ideas Rise to
• The

Top: We champion the best ideas, not our own ideas.

We ensure we listen to other ideas, regardless of the source and embrace cognitive diversity and creating a psychologically safe environment where every voice is heard.

• Care

Personally: We care about each other at a personal level as well as ourselves.

We put the team's needs ahead of our own individual needs to support each other as servant leaders.

The more we understand each other, the more effective we will be.

What are you going to do?

As part of the Trading team, you will report directly into the Head of Trading with the mission to optimise the profits of the team's trading strategies through effective trade execution and risk management.

Specific responsibilities include

• Work closely with other Traders to lead and support trade execution strategy
• Own and develop risk management requirements for the Trading team
• Monitoring live P&L and trading alerts through the day for the trading team
• Maintenance and taking ownership of a variety of models and reports, working directly with the Operations team and Trading team to communicate changes
• Circulating reports to the wider group
• Using Bloomberg application to build charts and other instruments for the trading team
• Drive improvements and high standards across the team and be a role model for high quality work

You must have...

• 2‑3 years of professional experience on, or closely with, a trading desk
• Strong conceptual understanding of the commodities market
• High levels of professional maturity, work ethic and intellectual curiosity
• Flexible approach to working hours to respond to evolving needs of markets and Trading team requirements, but typically around an 8hr day
• Strong self‑management such as self‑regulation, stress‑reduction, self‑awareness, adaptability, positivity
• Positive reaction to failure, calm and comfortable in chaos and under pressure while retaining importantly strong ethical standards
• Personal commitment to excellence; to self‑development, personal growth, expanding your comfort zone; strong attention to detail, ability and hunger to learn quickly; all of which is balanced with a strong sense of pragmatism
• Strong logical reasoning with an ability to make decisions, take a methodical approach, identify patterns to form conclusions and solve problems and ability to hold conflicting views in parallel
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to liaise with co‑workers at all levels of the business.

Specifically skilled at presenting complex information in concise and clear ways, applying the appropriate sense of urgency when required

• Strong team player who works collaboratively with high levels of self‑motivation and cares personally for their co‑workers. Dependable and accountable to their team.
• Effective active listener. Holds space for other's ideas, avoids listening purely to respond
• Excellent organisational and time keeping skills, skilled at prioritisation and note taking
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Excel
• Exceptional data manipulation skills, demonstrated through previous projects/work
• Evidence of being able to clearly establish priorities but remain adaptable in a constantly changing environment.
• Skills in connecting disparate data to provide insight, and solutions in the form of reports and trading models

It would be even better, but not essential, if you have one or more of...

• A proven strength in a financial, mathematical, or similarly technical or scientific subject area
• An understanding of futures contracts
• An understanding or experience of front/middle office functions
• Experience of using Bloomberg/Reuters
• Experience of working in a support role focused on trade execution or trading risk management
• Understanding of agile/scrum/Kanban methodologies of working
• Experience in SQL or at least one of Excel formulas & VBA or Python in Excel
• Personal Fit
• Shares our vision and embodies the Boba culture as a role model
• Is looking for an organisation that puts its purpose at the heart of what it does
• Is hungry to help build the company - a proactive and enthusiastic force to improve our capabilities
• Loves pragmatism over perfection, without compromising a strong attention to detail
• Thrives in the day to day nature of the role, with high levels of personal drive and care in their work
• Works without ego and need for status or recognition
• Puts the team ahead of themselves, embodies a servant leader mindset
• Has their finger on the pulse of latest information, ideas, and practices, and can transform these into tangible value for our team
• What we can offer you

We are growing and adding to how we want to make Boba the best place to work on the planet and are always listening to what our team think we can do to achieve that.

On top of a culture of personal growth, caring personally, inclusivity where your ideas are heard and often implemented, we can offer:

• Competitive annual salary plus annual discretionary performance bonus.
• Support from a professionally qualified Coach to help you achieve your personal and professional goals.
• Physical health allowance where we provide an allowance to each employee to use towards a physical activity of their choice (e. g., gym membership, Brazilian ju‑jitsu, personal trainer, running club; pretty much anything as long as it gets you moving!)
• 39 days holiday, to be taken whenever you want subject to ensuring we have operational and trading coverage.

We do not mandate you work public holidays nor do we mandate you must take them off, instead we recognise that UK bank holidays do not always align to important dates for everyone so give you the choice.

• Pension contribution.
• A book a month for personal development.
• Support to pursue professional certifications/qualifications.
• Fridge full of snacks and drinks (healthy and less‑healthy options are available!)
• 'Bobaversary' recognition for reaching significant milestones in your career with us.
• Other examples of situational/ad‑hoc schemes we have run for our employees
• Surprise and delight – we sent our people gifts from us during mandatory WFH periods, just to show we are thinking about them.
• Boba Social Events such as away weekends or team activities
• Social events & celebratory gifts for achieving team goals.
• Why diversity and inclusion is highly important to us

An inclusive and diverse workplace means we highly value differences in race, gender, nationality, culture, sexual orientation, physical ability, cognition, age and background as these differences bring new or different ways of thinking about our work.

Therefore, creating a workplace culture that advances belonging and psychological safety brings a mutual respect and acceptance of others and fuels our values of caring personally, adapting and evolving and the best ideas rising to the top.

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