Commodity Indices - Strategic Index Trader - Vice President

Are you ready to take your career to the next level in the dynamic world of commodity indices trading? Join our Strategic Index team as a Commodities Trader, focusing on structuring, pricing, and managing risk for Investible Indices/Systematic Strategies.

As a Vice President Trader within the Strategic Index team you will guide strategic initiatives while scaling market execution and risk management processes. Our client-focused, non-proprietary trading business requires high interaction across sales, structuring, and technology teams, offering unparalleled opportunities for growth and collaboration.

Job Responsibilities

• Price vanilla and exotic structures on indices, including commodity, rates, and cross-assets.
• Manage daily risk for the Commodity Index book, covering both linear and non-linear products.
• Collaborate with operations and infrastructure groups to support a 'one team approach.'
• Participate in strategic initiatives to improve and evolve processes and business architecture.
• Work closely with traders to develop automated tools and enhance the risk management platform.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience in pricing and risk management of linear and non-linear payoffs.
• Extensive understanding of technical aspects of exotics risk management.
• Good understanding of commodities market structure.
• Clear communication skills and ability to collaborate, explain, and challenge as appropriate.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with control and project management capabilities.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Experience in managing a risk book in commodities.
• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Familiarity with systematic strategies and index trading.

This role encompasses the performance of UK regulated activity. The successful candidate will therefore be subject to meeting UK regulatory requirements in the assessment of fitness, propriety, knowledge and competence (as assessed by the Firm) and (where appropriate) approval by the UK Financial Conduct Authority and/or the Prudential Regulation Authority to carry out such activities.

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.

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ABOUT THE TEAM

J.P. Morgan's Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world.