Senior Oil Trading roles - various opportunities

Senior Oil Traders (Various roles - Physical trading only, Physical & Paper trading, Derivatives (pure spec) trading only), Location: Singapore

We are working on a few mandates (both confidential and non-confidential) across global energy trading companies, oil majors, financial and non-bank financial institutions expanding their energy trading desks in Singapore. Together, they are looking to hire exceptional Oil Traders across single/multiple product categories with strong P&L track record.

Mandate 1: Physical Oil trading + Paper Trading (hedging only and some spec trades)

Type of firms: Entrepreneurial Energy Trading House / Global energy trading house

Products: Open to hire x-bbl, you can belong to any part of the barrel (crude oil, fuel (cargo), gasoil, jet, gasoline, naphtha, LPG, LNG, etc.)

Bonus: if you can trade all of them (i.e. x-bbl) depending on the economics/arbs of the trades into niche markets, but it is fine if you trade major in 1 or 2 oil products, that's okay as well

Years of experience: Minimum 5-15 years and above of oil trading experience able to function and trade independently, run your own trading book and your own flows

Sell of the role:

• Strong financing lines to support your physical oil trades
• Entrepreneurial individual and team environment
• Strong autonomy to run your oil trading business aligned to the risk management framework and compliance of the business
• Collaborative team culture to allow cross-pollination of deals success
• Have upstream assets / asset play (e.g. storage, tankers, offtakes, JVs, etc.) for blending/optimization to augment your trading business
• Transparent bonus structure (i.e. percentage of P&L)

Mandate 2: Oil Derivatives Trader (Purely Speculative only, No physical trading, Cross barrel trading experience a must)

Type of firms: Oil Major / Leading Energy trading company

Productsto trade (MUST Haves): Presently doing spec paper trading experience (oil) across the barrel (must have)

Solid P&L track record, with your own VaR and drawdown limits/track record

Years of experience: Minimum 5-15 years and above of cross-barrel oil trading experience able to function and trade independently, run your own trading book, own your P&L, VaR and drawdown limits

You do not need to be trading physical oil now, but you MUST HAVE traded physical oil (any part of the barrel previously/ x-bbl previously) previously

Run your own trading book, own your P&L, VaR and draw down limits/ track record

Sell of the role:

• Attractive size of VaR and drawdown limits which commensurate with your trading experience and P&L track record
• Established top energy firm with strong financials
• Transparent bonus structure (percentage of P&L), uncapped

Mandate 3: Oil Derivatives Trader (Purely Speculative only, No physical trading, can be trading a single product or combination of products across the barrel)

Type of firms: Financial institutions and Non‑Bank Financial Institution (NBFI)

Productsto trade (MUST Haves): Presently already trading in oil speculative trading experience (oil) any part of the barrel

Solid P&L track record, with your own VaR and drawdown limits/track record

Bonus: if you have traded cross barrel or are trading cross barrel already

Years of experience: Minimum 5-15 years and above of oil derivatives trading (i.e. any part of the barrel), able to trade independently

Run your own trading book, own your P&L, VaR and draw down limits

Sell of the role:

• Attractive size of VaR and drawdown limits which commensurate with your trading experience and P&L track record
• Run your own pod and bring on your team OR be part of a new/established trading pod
• Transparent bonus structure (percentage of P&L), uncapped

Kindly drop us a copy of your CV (word format) and through this application to register your interest.

All our conversations will be kept strictly confidential.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Thank you.

Selby Jennings is a Trading Style of Phaidon International (License number R16S8194)