Commercial Analyst - Oil Trading

Overview

Support refined products trading desk with P&L, risk, and trade operations.

Key Responsibilities

• tool development
• system reconciliation
• product expirations
• hedging management
• p&l reporting
• broker onboarding

Tasks

This position supports a refined products trading team within the oil markets, covering analytical, operational, and junior trading responsibilities in a dynamic and fast-moving environment. The successful candidate will play a key role in daily P&L processes, market exposure management, and trade execution support, while helping ensure smooth coordination between front, middle, and back-office teams. -Develop analytical tools and ad-hoc models in Excel or similar platforms to support senior traders and decision-making. -Interface with technology and middle-office teams to ensure accurate system feeds, reconciliations, and reporting of inventory quality and quantity. -Monitor product expirations across the portfolio and ensure all required actions—rolls, offsets, or settlements—are executed before expiry deadlines. -Assist with hedging activity for physical barrels, ensuring accurate and up-to-date pricing for deliveries and purchases. -Act as an integral part of the refined products trading desk, assisting in day-to-day trading activity, exposure tracking, and risk oversight. -Maintain awareness of both physical and financial positions; calculate daily profit and loss and report exposure movements to traders and management. -Support onboarding and enablement of new brokers and instruments by liaising with credit, risk, clearing, and external counterparties. -Contribute to junior-level trading functions such as executing and reconciling futures transactions, decomposing book exposures into strategy buckets, and producing timely P&L reports. -Participate in internal meetings and cross-desk discussions, providing analytical support and follow-up on assigned actions.

Requirements

• advanced excel
• vba
• bachelor's
• communication
• analytical
• team player

What You Bring

-Advanced Excel proficiency required; working knowledge of VBA or macros is advantageous. -Various positions within this group, so candidates with 1-3 years, 3-5 years, and 5-10 years of experience are encouraged to apply. -Excellent verbal and written communication skills; comfortable interacting with traders, operations, and risk management. -Strong numerical and analytical capabilities with sound judgment and attention to detail. -Highly organized, process-oriented, and capable of bridging information between systems, traders, and management reports. -Team player with a proactive mindset and a genuine interest in oil markets and trading operations. -Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related discipline. -Ability to perform under pressure in a fast-paced trading floor setting, balancing independence with collaboration.

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About Aurex Group

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