Middle Office Analyst - Gas, LNG & Coal

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Middle Office Analyst – Gas, LNG & Coal, London

Client:

Selby Jennings

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

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Job Views:

26

Posted:

22.03.2025

Expiry Date:

06.05.2025

Job Description:

Summary: My client is a Global Commodity Trading House, the world\’s largest buyer of LNG and in the top 5 for energy traded products (Coal, Gas, Power) with a platform to trade across all key markets (North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia). They are looking to onboard a Middle Office Analyst to further strengthen the London team across LNG, Gas and Coal portfolios.

Responsibilities:

• Carry out an in-depth risk assessment (ad hoc) and the ongoing monitoring of operational risk indicators.
• Ensure continued collaboration and communication with the traders, senior management, and the risk teams – reporting findings and recommendations of the key risk and control indicators from the operational risk reviews.
• Production of daily P&L reports and consolidation of all trade book reports, ensuring precision, consistency, and integrity.
• Resolving queries from traders or other departments relating to P&L impacting topics.
• Raising queries to traders when proposed booking changes or business practices are unclear.
• Bringing awareness and understanding to the impacts of deal changes or bookings to different departments, considering how it will impact them.
• Validation of physical commodity (LNG, Gas, and Coal) and derivative deal entries to ensure accurate valuation within our ETRM.
• Establish adequate risk management processes, resources, and infrastructure to identify, measure, and provide proper monitoring, reporting, and management of risks relating to the company\’s commercial activities.
• Understanding and ability to calculate the impacts of IR and FX on P&L, working with the Treasury team to ensure the impacts are expected and hedges are correct or executed when required.

Requirements:

• A degree in Quantitative Finance, Mathematics, Physics, or other science disciplines.
• 3+ years experience working in an oil & gas trading company, Risk Consulting, banking, or finance sector – within Middle Office or Trade Control.
• Strong level of knowledge and practical experience using VBA Programming, Matlab, and Excel.
• Knowledge of LNG, Gas, Power, or Coal – physical and financial.
• Knowledge and understanding of control processes in a trading and regulatory environment.
• Ability to understand and apply risk management concepts, including stress-testing, value-at-risk, liquidity adjusted VaR, and scenario analysis.
• Strong understanding of options, mathematics, and how they are priced.
• Ability to communicate ideas and findings fluently in English (written and spoken).
• Ability to work in a rapidly changing and results-driven environment, with the determination to learn and show resilience.

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