Middle & Back Office Analyst in City of London

We have an opportunity for someone to join us as a Middle Office Analyst to work in a truly global environment, providing daily P&L reporting, exposure analysis and IPV across Hartree’s trading books while partnering closely with traders, risk, IT and global Middle Office teams.

Function: Middle Office

Position Type: Full-time

Schedule: Hybrid, 4 days onsite

As a growing and evolving firm, Hartree continues to expand its commercial footprint, invest in new assets, and build new capabilities to meet emerging market opportunities. This includes monitoring of transactions, mark-to-market profit and loss (P&L), exposure and Independent Price Verification (IPV).

• Analyze and identify P&L and exposure drivers of various trading books encompassing a wide array of commodities and financial instruments.
• Work with global Middle Office, Risk, Trading/front office and IT to identify and implement opportunities for automation and simplification.
• Handle ad-hoc requests from traders and other stakeholders.
• Update/maintain trading system reference data, from book reporting structure to instrument creation.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or equivalent work experience in a commodity trading environment; 1-2 years of relevant experience working in financial or energy risk management with a strong understanding of commodity trading, preferably in crude, gas, refined products or metal markets.
• Ability to proactively spot and solve complex issues with minimal supervision as a self-starter.
• Ability to synthesize and communicate complex PnL/risk concepts and recommendations in a clear, logical manner to traders and management.
• Ability to build relationships across function, and ability to challenge front office when necessary.
• Advanced computer skills (e.g. high level of Excel proficiency, VBA, SQL/Python).
• Ability to design and manage data visualization tools (e.g. Power BI).

We recognise that talent comes in many forms, and we value potential just as much as experience. We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders of commodity trading.

We provide equal opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Any CVs/resume’s submitted without a prior agreement in place with our talent acquisition team, will be considered the property of Hartree, and no fees will be paid.