Main Purpose:

The Deals Desk is a middle office team that is responsible for the independent production and reporting of all elements of the risk and exposures related to commercial activity to the Management Board. These responsibilities include the reporting of daily trading positions and management P&L, post deal review and system reconciliation to meet key accounting and regulatory standards

Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

Key Responsibilities:

• Ability to independently justify the economics in each trading strategy

• Understand the forward curve on a daily basis for physical and derivative markets to current position, and to explain the impact on the trading PnL

• Produce daily commentary for board of directors / traders to explain the daily changes in the trading profit and loss due to market changes/change in estimated/actual economics for each deal

• Analyze exposure and report profit and loss including derivatives and physical exposure.

• Monitor data entry of new business in the Mark to Market System

• Ensure all market price risk is captured and hedge actions executed

• Assess implication of changes to future physical deliveries, report, and discuss impact of hedge strategy

• Creation and maintenance of ad-hoc reports to assist in any area of position reporting /structure/hedging

• Full responsibility of data integrity held within the trading systems

• Accounting review of accruals/exceptions on a daily basis

 

Abilities, Experience and Qualifications:

• Strong communicator, comfortable liaising within their own team, Traders and internal departments

• Motivated to succeed in a high-pressure environment

• Strives to improve processes and procedures to maximize efficiency

• Excellent attention to detail, seeks to understand and question the results of what they have produced prior to distributing it
  

Requirements

• Meticulous and innovative

• Market analysis skills

• Proficient excel abilities

• Familiar with using multiple systems

• Strong organizational skills

• Excellent communicator

• Ability to work in a fast paced high-pressure environment

Key Relationships and Department Overview:

Reports into Regional Manager, Metal Operations