Middle Officer

Context:

The Middle Officer is responsible for timely trade captures, correct risk exposure and PnL reporting. The role also involves setting up the valuation / pricing curves and monitoring the desk's trading limits.

Responsibilities:

• Support the business in capturing trades, reporting of risk exposures, reporting of pricing risk to traders and PnL attribution and reporting.
• Manage the risk profile of the trading business in line with the agreed appetite for risk and risk limits.
• Proactively develop and improve business processes and risk systems / functionalities in coordination with traders / IT and Chief Risk Manager.
• Develop and maintain good working relationships with the various functions within the business, including finance, trading, middle office and operations.
• Support the business to enable new products or new trading strategies.

Technical qualifications and skills:

• A degree in a numerate discipline with a financial major would be attractive, i.e. Financial Engineering etc. Further professional qualification e.g. FRM, CFA may be helpful but not essential.
• 1-5 years work experience in Middle Office, preferably an experienced Risk/Trading/Business Analyst with strong understanding, knowledge and experience in Metals business.
• Technically competent with experience in setting up / managing risk management ETRM systems and tools.
• Familiar with back office and middle office processes in a commodities trading business environment.
• Candidates with big 4 accounting firm experience in audit of commodities trading firm is also relevant for this role.

Profile:

• A strong but inclusive personality.
• Passionate about risk and processes, pragmatic rather than overly theoretical, capable of working with the business lines to embed risk awareness and culture into everyday processes.
• Stable, confident, independently minded but an inclusive, team player, with the courage to voice his/her convictions to senior management and colleagues.