CONTRACT TO PERM - Senior Commodities (Metals) Analyst to support production and non-production deployments for an in house commodities trading application

CONTRACT TO PERM - Senior Commodities (Metals) Analyst to support production and non-production deployments for an in house commodities trading application with one of our major banking clients- 38733

Location Address: Hybrid - Toronto - 1-2 days per week - subject to change/increase

Contract Duration: 6 months (MUST CONVERT TO FTE)

Schedule Hours: 9am-5pm Monday-Friday; standard 37.5 hrs/week

Story Behind the Need

• Business group: The GBME- Commodities, FX Options & Derivatives Technology team supports the Global Banking and Market Commodities business. This is an opportunity to work in the fast-moving and exciting world of Commodities Derivatives Trading. We are looking for an energetic and strategic thought leader with Commodities Trading & Technical background to join this dynamic team and take on a challenging and exciting role.
• Project: The Application Support Specialist will be responsible for providing responsive application level and back-end support of components and services for critical trading applications used by the Commodities Sales and Trading business, with emphasis on the Metals business. This will include support around production and non-production application deployments, application support and end of day batches. Working on front to back in house system for commodities trading .

Typical Day in Role:

• You will be responsible for handling application-level issues on mission critical systems requiring same day resolution. Often, resolution determination requires interaction with other teams onsite and remotely. Considerable effort is placed into determining, developing and delivering procedures to protect production environments from unplanned outages.
• You will also provide technical assistance to Front Office, Middle, and Back Office users, and implement automated procedures to solve complex problems. This can involve performing analysis on issues in support of solution development and facilitating dialogue with any other business and technical groups.
• While your role will be with the Commodities technology group as a whole, a key component will be understanding and support of our metals business; your prior knowledge of the metals business will be heavily used.
• Work closely with Sales, Traders in the commodities business, with your primary focus being the metals business.
• Collaborate with the cross functional teams including engineering & development, business lines and other technology and product teams to build the right products with high quality, on time and within budget.
• Perform analysis and understand business issues. Collaborate with technology teams to define meaningful solutions that simplify and improve business outcomes, and collaborate with business users to review and test new products for trading.
• Effectively communicate and continuously engage & cultivate relationships with key stakeholders in front to back office and in technology, and partner with them to help drive the strategy of the department.
• Translate business objectives/Requirements into technical requirements and collaborate with various Teams/Vendors.

Must Have Skills:

1) 8+ years of product and technology experience (preferably support), with strong business analysis, architecture/technical background.

2) 5+ years’ experience in Commodities derivatives, preferably Metals (others: oil, natural gas)

3) Experience with market risk as it relates to derivatives products in the commodities space. This includes understanding of higher order greeks for risk and pricing.

4) Experience in writing complex SQL queries to gather data from various sources and performing analysis on the data.

Nice-To-Have Skills:

1) A solid technical background, with experience in Unix, shell scripting, Oracle and other tools. 5+ years of hands-on experience

2) Past work experience and good understanding of a trading floor

3) Practical experience on database management systems (e.g. Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL databases).

Education:

Bachelor’s

Best VS. Average Candidate:

We are looking for a results-oriented, creative, highly motivated individual with a curious mindset, strong business product and leadership skills, deliver excellence passionate for challenges and want to contribute to the success of the Bank.

Strong focus on Commodities and metals experience

previous companies: triple point/ION; open link - have some commodities experience

Good understanding of the end-to-end trade life cycle

Experienced in understanding customer needs in your past roles and have successfully achieved it through a sound execution strategy.

Have strong experience and deep understanding of the products

Experience in front to backs systems

In house developed trading platforms (cme, ice, pt) - comparable systems: TPT, OpenLink

Trade commodities products

Metals trading

Candidate Review & Selection

2 rounds - MS Teams Video Interviews

1st technical round with SMEs - 1 hour

2nd with HM - 30 minutes