JPMorgan Natural Gas Liquids Trader - Associate 

United States, Texas, Houston 

905992009

As a Trader on the Natural Gas Liquid (NGL) team, you will play a crucial role supporting senior traders on all aspects of day to day management for a best in class franchise driven trading book.

Job responsibilities

• Assist senior traders to 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, Mathematics or other related disciplines
• Understanding of oil fundamentals preferred but not required
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Demonstrable experience interacting with major institutional / corporate commodity clients.
• Strong computational skills in Python, SQL, and/or other programming languages preferred