Vice President, Trader

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Responsibilities

• Create client sales pitch presentations.
• Draw charts and graphs to illustrate oil market supply/demand fundamentals.
• Monitor fundamental economic, industrial, geo-political, weather information from financial publications and services, government agencies, trade publications, company sources & personal contacts that will enable the construction of a better predicative model of oil balances.
• Perform risk/reward valuation for trade ideas.
• Use Python to code for rule-based trading signals.
• Help hedge risk and trading activities with limited direction from more senior staff.
• Work closely with sales across varying time zones to get the ""right price"" to the ""right client"" given risk tolerance and balance sheet constraints.
• Conduct profit and loss and risk reconciliation.
• Market-make linear and non-linear derivatives across the main oil indices for the bank’s corporate and institutional clients.
• Handle workflow from front to back, including quotes, hedges, trades and downstream processes to minimize operational risks while optimizing market risk.
• Help assess market risk, liquidity risk and delivery risk and support broader trading desk.
• Understand, build and maintain a Supply and Demand model for crude and refined oil products.
• Build BofA Commodities franchise and grow our market share by supporting the sales team with competitive pricing, analysis and market color.
• Price and hedge vanilla options.
• Understand technicalities in derivatives mechanics and help hedge risk and the implications of events on the entire trading desk, anticipate market outcomes.
• Understand market drivers and be able to clearly communicate these to sales colleagues and clients.
• Leverage technology and analytics to drive pricing/hedging as well as idea generation.

Required Skills & Experience

• Master's degree or equivalent in Computational Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Finance: and
• 3 years of experience in the job offered or a related Finance occupation.
• Must include 3 years of experience in each of the following:
• Utilizing statistical analysis of multiple data sets to provide forward estimates for crude and refined oil products balances incorporating inter-regional flows;
• Tracking and forecasting daily fundamental drivers of oil markets and calculating locational arbitrages of oil to generate trade ideas for risk deployment;
• Using Python programming to monitor price patterns, evaluate basis and crack risks, predict likely price action following events, and conduct scenario-based market event analysis to anatomize price shocks;
• Moving desk tasks from Excel to Python to scrub price and inventory data for anomalies and optimization of internal database management; and,
• Transferring Excel based balances to programming based balances to improve market analysis of forward supply and demand balances in the oil balance.
• In the alternative, the employer will accept a Bachelor's degree and 5 years of progressively responsible experience.

If interested apply online at or email your resume to [email protected] and reference the job title of the role and requisition number.

Merrill Lynch Commodities Inc.

Shift:

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week:

40