Title:  Tropical Oils Trader - Commodity Derivatives

Job Purpose and Impact

The Tropical Oils Trader will generate trading strategies while applying the right risk management and bear responsibility of execution to achieve trading objectives.
 

Key Accountabilities

• Apply a thorough comprehension of trade and risk management across BMD Palm Oil and DCE Palm Olein futures.
• Independently develop and implement both short and long-term trading strategies on flat price, timespreads and relative values. 
• Continuous interaction between physical traders, book managers, trading leads and customer groups. Foster a strong trading network both internally and externally.
• Constructing fundamental and non-fundamental analysis as input into Trading strategies 
• Managing positions within a sizeable Tropical Oils Trading Book, in a complex trading environment. Continuous improvement on position management, strategies and how risk is deployed in the business.
• Generate market, positions and profit and loss reports based on estimates.
• Other duties as assigned.
   

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum 4 years of related work experience
• Other minimum qualifications may apply

Preferred Qualifications

• Banking or brokerage with a background in commodities futures 
• Strong Experience in: 
  • Derivatives/Physical trading and position management; 
  • Proprietary convexity trading 
  • Market marking trading 
  • Fundamental analysis 
•  Proven track record of high performance in quantitative risk taking