VP Quantitative Analyst – Commodities Trading

My client is a premier energy and commodities specialist with a global presence, operating in physical and financial trading, carbon trading, energy infrastructure investment and risk solutions across all asset classes

The firm are building out risk and quant team to support their asset backed trading team in London, and as part of this, are seeking a talented VP level quant, ideally with prior exposure physical and financial commodity/energy trading, to join a rapidly growing team.  This role will focus on the development of market and liquidity risk methodologies, margin/SPAN models, pricing curves, as well as the validation of models developed by the front office, as well as ad-hoc quantitative support to traders and risk managers.

The role will be dynamic and varied and will provide exposure to all aspects of the firms commodity trading operations.

The role would suit a quant operating at VP level in a financial institution (bank, hedge fund, commodities house), who is capable of working in an unstructured environment with minimal supervision, strong Python coding skills and derivatives modelling knowledge.  Commodity asset class knowledge is essential, ideally with exposure to exotic options.