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Our traders need fast information of fundamental market changes and trends. As an Agri Macro Analyst for Optiver’s agricultural options team, you will be joining a burgeoning set up aiming at providing the best insight possible into the agriculture commodity market. You will be collaborating closely with other Analysts and Traders by providing research and scenario analysis plus suggesting how this could impact the price or volatility of a commodity.
Job Responsibility:
Continuously interact with our option traders, communicating what’s driving intra-day moves in commodities markets as they happen together with potential consequences for realized and implied volatility
Identify emerging themes in commodities markets that could impact future volatility
Produce thorough scenario analysis of known market events. In particular the analysis should contain information about how the commodity is expected to move in each scenario.
Become an influential team member in how we approach analysis and utilise data
Requirements:
Significant macro research experience across the agri commodity markets
grains, oilseeds, sugar, coffee and/or cocoa
An ability to know where to look to quickly understand intra-day moves in commodity markets
A mindset that thinks in volatility, understands scenario/event analysis, supply and demand modelling and an ability to run regressions into fundamental decisions.
Familiarity with various research/database platforms
Nice to have:
Knowledge of some of the structural flow we see in the commodities option space and how various market participants are using commodity options for their portfolio
A good understanding of what data is available in order to support your research to the business. The ability to decipher large datasets using programming languages such as Python or C#
An understanding of options and experience working directly with options traders
What we offer:
A performance-based bonus structure, enabling all of our employees to benefit from our global profit pool.
27 paid vacation days plus all UK public holidays.
Daily breakfast and lunch, along with support on commuting expenses.
Private medical insurance, pension scheme, and ClassPass fitness membership.
Training and continuous learning opportunities, including access to conferences and tech events.
International transfer opportunities for global career growth.