Corporate & Investment Bank - Oil Trader - Analyst

**JOB DESCRIPTION**
As an Analyst in the Asia oil trading team, you will support senior traders in capitalizing client flow through sales desk, ensuring client value monetization. You will play a crucial role in assisting senior traders 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**
- 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
- At least 1 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.

**ABOUT US**

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

**ABOUT THE TEAM**

The Corporate & Investment Bank is a global leader across investment banking, wholesale payments, markets and securities services. The world’s most important corporations, governments and institutions entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. We provide strategic advice, raise capital, manage risk and extend liquidity in markets around the world.