Main Purpose :
The Deals Desk is a middle office team providing market and risk analysis globally on a real time basis. The team’s primary responsibilities revolve around monitoring all elements of the risk and exposures related to commercial activity and report it directly to the Management Board on a daily basis.
Commercially, the team adds value by providing traders with risk assessments and analysis which highlight their exposure, optionality and P&L.
These reports are essential to help them make the right commercial decisions and optimize the opportunities their portfolios generate, all the while providing Deals Desk employees with an unprecedented office learning experience in the world of trading.
The deals desk team is responsible for maintenance and enhancement of core P&L data to increase accuracy and timeliness of the daily trading results.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities :
Candidates preferably with at least 1-5 yrs work experience with the following :
Key Responsibilities :
To fully master the role takes years of training as it requires an in-depth knowledge of every element of physical and derivative trading, as well as being able to interpret the impact of operational, financial and political changes on the underlying position and profit.
Whilst all responsibilities and accountabilities of the role remain based upon the core principles of risk management, the factors that drive them change on an hour by hour, day by day basis as the company discovers new and innovative ways to generate a wide and truly diversified portfolio
Be responsible for the production and reporting of daily trading positions and management P&L, production and monitoring of daily trading P&L and volumetric exposure reports, post deal review and system reconciliation.
Enter inception P&L for all new trading strategies, and maintain the economics on these strategies from cradle to grave
Full responsibility for integrity of data in trading systems that is used to generate the above items
Key Relationships and Department Overview :