Oil Trader

Job Description

• Trade gasoil/jet fuel/HH NG paper markets and manage risk exposures under agreed mandates and supervision.
• Trade cross barrels paper markets under comprehensive strategy proposal and approval accordintly.
• Identify and capture trading opportunities in flat price, spreads, and arbitrage structures.
• Monitor and report P&L daily, ensuring clear linkage between positions, exposures, and market drivers.
• Build and maintain fundamental supply-demand models for middle distillates as well as other products potentially.
• Track refinery runs, product flows, inventories, shipping, and demand trends across regions.
• Translate analytical insights into commercial trade ideas and risk strategies.
• Maintain strong networks with brokers, analysts, and industry participants to stay ahead of market shifts.
• Present market views and model updates to the trading team and management.
• Support the development of internal analytics tools and databases to enhance decision-making.

Job Requirement

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline.
• 2-3 years of proven trading experience in trading in oil & energy industry.
• Strong understanding of oil markets, preferably with exposure to refined products and middle distillates.
• Solid analytical and logical thinking skills.
• Highly proficient in Excel, experience in Python, SQL, or other programming tools is highly desirable, and ability to work with large datasets.
• Strong communication skills, able to clearly articulate market views and analytical insights.
• Detail-oriented, proactive, and eager to learn in a fast-paced trading environment.