Operations Trade Support

You will monitor live strategy performance, positions, P&L, and margin usage; adjust strategy parameters as market conditions change; and make risk-based decisions on underperforming strategies. You will backtest strategies, book OTC trades, triage production incidents, maintain trading configurations, develop operational tools, communicate with brokers and back-office stakeholders, and keep SOPs current.

Responsibilities

• Monitor strategy performance, P&L, margin usage, and positions throughout the trading day
• Identify, respond to, and report unusual trading or technical behaviour
• Adjust live strategy parameters as market conditions change
• Make risk-based decisions on switching off underperforming strategies and changing parameters or position size
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of traded products, contract dates, and trading hours
• Backtest changes to existing and new strategies
• Identify new trading opportunities
• Use in-house tools and services
• Book OTC trades when needed
• Triage, prioritize, and delegate trading and technology production issues
• Maintain trading uptime while markets are open
• Communicate current and potential issues with the Energy team and back office
• Build relationships with brokers
• Take over from the Asia team and provide flexible trading-day coverage
• Write end-of-day reports on risk, system changes, and incidents
• Maintain production configurations for trading and research
• Build tools that improve trading operations and monitoring
• Keep Confluence SOPs up to date

Requirements

• Experience in trading, trading operations, or strategy support, ideally in energy, futures, or commodities markets
• Strong risk awareness and the ability to act decisively on live positions under pressure
• Knowledge of exchange-traded products, including contract specifications, expiries, and trading hours
• Programming ability in Python, C++, and shell scripting
• Experience with backtesting and data analysis
• Ability to triage, prioritize, and escalate technical and trading issues
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Relationship-building skills with counterparties and brokers
• Flexibility to cover the trading day and take over from Asia
• Collaborative, process-minded approach to documentation and knowledge sharing
• Reliable and predictable availability

Benefits

• Private medical, vision, and dental insurance
• Travel medical insurance
• Group pension scheme
• Group life assurance and income protection schemes
• Paid parental leave
• Parking and commuter benefits