WRS are looking for a Senior Trade Control Analyst to join a major oil trading company on a permanent basis in London.

Location: London
Job Type: Permanent
Start date: ASAP

Overview:

• This role is for Senior Trade Control Analyst within the Middle Office (Trade Control) unit, involved in day-to-day trade control activities focusing on the commodities Crude and Products.
• We are looking for someone with experience in all commodities but we will consider experienced candidates who have a strong bias in one particular commodity.

The main duties and responsibilities of the job holder are:

• perform daily validation activities, making sure all physical crudes and products transactions are duly and timely captured and validated accordingly to the company procedures;
• perform daily validation activities of relevant price information (spot/forward), making sure all relevant market data information is duly and timely validated accordingly to the company procedures;
• support the oil physical end of day process in the relevant ETRM systems guaranteeing the timely generation of Position and PNL reporting;
• perform checks on un-authorised trades and monitoring of mandates/limits (tenor/quantity/value etc.);
• Perform daily market conformity controls to monitor physical oil transactions;
• Ensure compliance with all internal and external regulation;
• Ensure all internal & external audit requests/issues are promptly addressed;
• Guarantee the necessary activity related to the month-end and quarter-end checks for physical Oil;

Candidate Requirements:

• Relevant experience within a Product Control/Market Risk/Middle Office/Risk management environment in an oil trading company or financial institution;
• Exposure to financial instruments related to Oil & Refined products;
• advanced knowledge of risk metrics and internal control systems applicable for oil physical transactions;
• knowledge of control processes applicable in a trading / regulated environment;
• highly organised, good attention to detail and ability to work with tight deadlines;
• dedicated and stress-resilient;
• proactive and result oriented approach to work;
• ability to build and nurture effective relationships internally and externally;
• knowledge of one or more of IT systems would be an advantage (i.e. Endur).
• Strong and solid knowledge of Microsoft Office suite including excellent Excel and VBA knowledge a plus;
• strong academic credentials with a numeracy-oriented specialisation, preferably Finance or quantitative discipline;
• experience in the middle office/product control/back office/risk management of the trading environment would be beneficial;
• understanding of the commodities markets, preferably physical crude & products markets;