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Senior Analyst - Commodities Middle office

Date added

23 May 2025

Job sector

Global Banking & Markets

Job type

Permanent / Full Time

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Looking for someone with 2-5 years total experience, who's working on a middle office team supporting commodities desks.

Job Title: Senior Analyst - Commodities Middle Office
Location: London, United Kingdom

Key Responsibilities

  • Own query remediation, trade life-cycling and other day-to-day processing, ensuring timely escalation, in order to minimise risk.
  • Drive continuous improvement and innovate. Partner with Technology to deliver transformation. Work with Financial Markets teams to identify booking model improvements and drive efficiency. 
  • Face of Operations to Sales and Trading Desks locally – primary point of contact:
    • Insulate FM from post execution processing / queries, represent Operations functions,
    • Build team profile with the Front Office 
    • Stakeholder engagement, 2-way flow of information – “Trusted Advisor”.
  • New business enablement and solutions, partner to deliver strategic FM initiatives.
  • Constantly seek opportunities to improve global consistency, work closely with the Hubs (GBS) and other regions to close gaps and standardise processes. 
  • Communicate with clients to solve immediate day to day issues with transactions as well as understand their longer terms needs to shape business decisions in Operations.
  • Build strong relationship with Hub teams (Fixed Income & OTC Derivs Ops) to facilitate efficient communications and speedy resolutions of issues. Identify and close knowledge gaps within the Hubs through hands on training.
  • Achieve regulatory compliance and future proof the Middle Office model through a strong understanding of current rules and anticipation of upcoming regulations
  • Commodities Middle Office, supporting all products including Physical trades. 
Skills and Experience
  • Experience with Derivatives and Commodities. 
  • Working knowledge of Derivative products and Options, ETD & OTC trade life cycle specifically for Commodities and exposure to Operations for Physical Commodity movements. 
  • Ability to drive continuous process improvements. 
  • Ability to engage with clients to resolve day-to-day transaction issues. 
  • Strong interpersonal skills with experience in building relationships across different teams. 
  • Experience working in global teams, identifying opportunities to improve consistency across regions. 
  • Ability to monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and service level agreements (SLAs) to ensure daily operational targets are met. 

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