Commodity Market Risk Specialist

2 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom ING Full time

Job Specification

This is a role in the Trading Risk Management department, a team of approximately 70 people supporting various businesses within Financial Markets, Group Treasury, and Lending Services.

The team is responsible for market risk and product control functions, including measuring and analysing market risk and trading performance across various financial products.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Responsible for the end-to-end product control process, including daily P&L reporting and balance sheet reconciliation.
  • Production and in-depth analysis of daily and longer-term profit and loss.
  • Understanding and explaining reporting content to Front Office and senior management.
  • Monitoring, analysing, and reporting market risk exposure on a day-to-day and long-term basis for the Commodities desk.
  • Preparation of independent price verification, prudent valuation, and model reserves on a monthly basis.
  • Involvement in local and global projects to implement changes in systems and regulations.
  • Monitoring trading limits and reviewing transactions over established limits.
  • Engaging with Front Office to keep up-to-date with trading strategy, challenging where appropriate on limit breaches, pricing, and strategy.
  • Coordination with the Global Market Data team, Trading Application Support, System Support, and other teams to set up new market data sources and resolve market data-related issues.
  • Execution of the global valuation adjustment framework for the Commodity asset class.

Candidate Profile

Qualification/Education

Essential: University Degree (2:1 or above) in a quantitative field, preferably financial mathematics, engineering, physics, or econometrics.

Desirable: Professional qualification (PRM, FRM).

Experience/Knowledge

Essential: 3+ years of experience in the financial industry, experience in product control and/or market risk management, and previous experience of product control of commodities within an investment bank.

Desirable: Understanding and working knowledge of VaR, experience working on regulatory change (FRTB, TRIM, interaction with regulators), experience in market data and associated challenges for Commodities, in-depth product knowledge of Commodities, Commodity derivatives, and associated pricing models, and strong technical skills in SQL, VBA, and Python.

Personal Competencies

Essential: Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, good communicator with attention to detail, pro-active, autonomous, and ability to summarise, strong team player with ability to work successfully with cross-functional, geographically dispersed teams, ability to work with FO and understand the business perspective of key projects, flexible approach to role and responsibilities, and ability to manage multiple tasks at the same time.

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