At a Glance
- Tasks: Partner with traders to analyse P&L, positions, and improve trade efficiency.
- Company: Join a leading firm in the metals trading industry in London.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, private medical insurance, and a pension scheme.
- Other info: Dynamic role with opportunities for automation and process improvement.
- Why this job: Gain hands-on experience in metals trading while enhancing your analytical skills.
- Qualifications: Degree in Finance, Economics, or related field; strong analytical and communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 58500 - 71500 £ per year.
In this role you will partner with traders and finance teams to deliver insights on P&L, positions, risk and working capital within the Metals CFO team in London. You will work across Metals Product Control and Metals Operations to support decision-making and improve efficiency across the trade lifecycle. The role offers a chance to deepen your understanding of physical and financial metals trading while scaling capabilities through analytics, data management and automation. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities, strengthen controls and drive continuous improvement.
Pay / Benefits
- Defined contribution pension scheme
- Long-term disability insurance
- Private medical insurance
- Death in service life assurance
- Health screening
- Interest free season ticket loan, Ride to work scheme
Responsibilities
- Partner with traders and commercial leaders to explain drivers of P&L and positions, highlight risks and support decision-making
- Deliver analysis to improve understanding of performance, exposures, and portfolio dynamics
- Build relationships across trading, finance, operations, and risk to connect financial results to commercial activity
- Support integrity of the trading book through balance sheet substantiation and controls over positions, accruals, inventories, warrants, and margins
- Identify control gaps in trade capture, valuation, and processes and implement improvements to reduce risk and improve efficiency
- Assist with close processes by investigating exceptions and resolving discrepancies
- Support settlements, reconciliations, contract administration, margining, warrant and physical processing, and client servicing
- Collaborate with commercial and operations teams to address issues, improve reliability, and enhance client outcomes
- Identify opportunities to automate manual processes and improve workflows; support projects involving new products, reporting enhancements, process improvements, and operational capabilities
Key requirements
- Bachelors degree or higher in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related discipline
- Analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to work with large datasets and reconcile complex positions
- Problem-solving and critical-thinking capabilities
- Effective communication and collaboration across functions
- Strong communication
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Problem-solving
- SQL
- Python
- VBA or similar analytical/automation tools
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