Analyst - Deals Desk

Main purpose

The Deals Desk is a middle office team providing market and risk analysis globally. The team’s primary responsibilities revolve around monitoring all elements of the risk and exposures related to commercial activity and report it directly to the Management Board on a daily basis.

Commercially, the team adds value by providing traders with risk assessments and analysis which highlight their exposure, optionality and P&L. These reports are essential to help them make the right commercial decisions and optimize the opportunities their portfolios generate, all the while providing Deals Desk employees with an unprecedented office learning experience in the world of trading.

The deals desk team is responsible for maintenance and enhancement of core P&L data to increase accuracy and timeliness of the daily trading results.

Key responsibilities

Be responsible for the production and reporting of daily trading positions and management P&L, production and monitoring of daily trading P&L and volumetric exposure reports, post deal review and system reconciliation. Enter inception P&L for all new trading strategies, and maintain the economics on these strategies from cradle to grave

Independently justify the economics applied to each trading strategy.

Apply forward curve on daily basis for physical and derivative markets to current position and to explain the impact on the trading P&L.

Produce daily commentary for board of directors / traders to explain the change in the trading profit and loss due to market changes/change in estimated / actual economics for each deal.

Analyse exposure and M2M profit and loss on physical/derivative portfolios

Ensure all market price risk is captured and hedge actions executed.

Assess implication of changes to future physical deliveries and report and discuss impact of hedge strategy

Creation and maintenance of ad-hoc reports to assist in any area of position reporting /structure /hedging ( data integrity / trade entry / irregular business structures ).

Full responsibility for integrity of data in trading systems that is used to generate the above items

Required qualifications

Candidates preferably with at least 1-5yrs work experience with the following:

MBA in Finance

Degree in Engineering is desirable

Should be meticulous and innovative

Have reasonable market analysis skills

Should be proficient excel abilities

Familiarity with using multiple systems is a plus

Strong organisational skills

Should have excellent English communication skills

Ability to work in a fast paced high pressure environment

Attributes for success

Should be meticulous and innovative

Strong organisational skills

Should have excellent English communication skills

Ability to work in a fast paced high pressure environment

Department overview

The Energy Deals Desk is a critical function within Trafigura's Energy business, sitting at the intersection of commercial trading, operations, finance, and risk management. The department is responsible for the ownership, management, and accurate reporting of deal-level Profit & Loss (PnL) across the energy trading book.

The Deals Desk acts as the central control function that ensures all physical trades, derivative hedges, and associated costs are correctly structured, attributed, and reported - from deal inception through to final settlement.

Key Relationships

Deals Management,

Physical/Derivative Traders,

Operators,

Finance Dept,

Chartering Dept,

Demurrage Dept,

Deals Team