Trading Risk Analyst

at  Boba Commodities Ltd

WHO WE ARE

Boba Commodities are a successful, rapidly growing commodities trading firm with the wider purpose of investing into a better future for us all.

WHERE WE ARE

From being founded in 2013, we have grown significantly over the past 10 years. We are now looking to build on the success from creating our Trading Risk Analyst team in 2022. To add to the team, we are looking for a self-managing, self-motivated Trading Risk Analyst with strong attention to detail, numerical skills, logical reasoning, and communication to help support us and make our vision a reality.

PERSONAL FIT

Our values run deep. You can come from any background, but championing our culture is critical. We’re looking for a team member who:

• Shares our vision and embodies the Boba culture
• Is looking for an organisation that puts its purpose at the heart of what it does
• Is hungry to build the company - a proactive and enthusiastic force to improve our capabilities
• Thrives in the day to day nature of the role, with high levels of personal drive and care in their work
• Works without ego and need for status and recognition
• Puts the team ahead of themselves, embodies a servant leader mindset

ROUND 2: GETTING TO KNOW EACH OTHER

Approx. 2 hrs 15mins with breaks. We would love to host you at our office and meet you in person, and we will pay any associated travel costs. Typical format will be:

• Meet with our Associate Chief of Staff (Catherine) for 45mins
• Break. If we both want to continue the interview process, then:
• Meet with one of our Trading Risk Analysts will assign you a technical assessment exercise for about 20mins followed by a short debrief and then break
• During this break, one of your potential future colleagues (Trading Risk Analysts) will take you for a coffee/tea/beverage for an informal chat with you for up to 20mins for you to ask any questions about the role, Boba or anything else!
• Meet with Associate Portfolio Manager (Jack) for up to 45 mins
• Wrap up with Catherine

As part of the Trading team, you will report directly into the Senior Trading Risk Analyst with the mission to optimise the profits of the team’s trading strategies through effective trade execution and risk management. Specific examples of specific responsibilities are:

• Work closely with the Traders to lead and support trade execution strategy
• Own and develop risk management requirements for the Trading team
• Monitor live P&L and trading alerts through the day for the trading team
• Maintenance and taking ownership of a variety of models and reports, working directly with the Operations team and Trading team to communicate changes
• Circulating reports to the wider group
• Using Bloomberg application to build charts and analysis for the trading team