JPMorgan Corporate & Investment Bank - Oil Trader – Vice President 

Singapore 

548822522

As a Vice President in the Asia oil trading team, you will be responsible for capitalizing client flow through sales desk, ensuring client value monetization. You will play a crucial role in oil fundamental analytics within oil complex and contribute significantly to revenue maximization. We quote and risk manage OTC oil derivatives to corporates within APAC region.

Job responsibilities

• Manage accurately and competitively price client transactions and efficiently hedge to maximize franchise revenue.
• Work alongside sales colleagues to engage clients, providing market color and derivative hedging strategies.
• Develop trading ideas based on educated views incorporating fundamental and technical analysis.
• Assist risk managing trading books that include non-linear risk.
• Appropriately size and risk manage positions to create profitable trading strategies based on franchise flow.
• Perform daily desk functions, including marking forward curves, providing market commentary and hedging secondary trading book exposure (FX/interest rates/etc.).

Required Qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Math or other related disciplines
• At least 5 years of experience in commodities trading and/or analytics.
• Strong understanding of oil fundamentals.
• Ability to assess and understand risk around trading positions and market events.
• Thrive on the challenge of competitive pressures and remain focused on client needs.
• Maturity and ability to succeed in a dynamic, fast-paced and open environment.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a diverse/ international team.
• Strong disciplined approach to our controls environment.
• Ability to work under pressure and operate at senior level if required.
• Strong computational skills in Python, SQL, and/or other programming languages

Preferred Qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Demonstrable experience interacting with major institutional / corporate commodity clients.
• Mandarin speaker is preferred to support clients from China to effectively trade futures on Chinese commodities exchanges.