Description

Energy Aspects is seeking a Quantitative Analyst/Strategist to join our industry leading Quant Analytics team. The Quant Analytics service focuses on modelling market participants and financial flows in commodity and macro derivatives markets. This includes futures, options, and swaps, delivering deep insights to our clients into the drivers behind capital flows and where positioning driven risks lie. This is a fantastic opportunity for an analyst with a solid technical background and commercial outlook to be part of our successful growth story.

The successful candidate will quickly take on a range of responsibilities and will contribute to the full life cycle of our work, from original quantitative research development, building and maintaining models, carrying out detailed analysis, delivering compelling market coverage, and delivering our core views to clients.

The position will be responsible for preparing and contributing to our publications, with a focus on the paper side of commodity markets. This will involve you carrying out a comprehensive analysis of futures market pricing developments, futures and options participant flows and positioning analysis, and integrating this with our wider global analysis to create forward-looking tradeable views.

You will be expected to consistently produce high standard deliverables to tight deadlines, meeting the needs of our demanding client base. We pride ourselves on the quality and accuracy of our premium research.

All team members are encouraged to build their professional reputation within the industry and are supported by some of the most well-regarded energy sector thought-leaders. You will be able to work independently, as well as be capable of planning and prioritising to achieve success. In exchange, we offer excellent remuneration, a high-performance culture, with challenging and exciting work.

In exchange, we offer excellent remuneration, a high-performance culture, with challenging and exciting work.

Key Responsibilities

Preparing and contributing to our markets publications.
Preparing and contributing to our technical insights.
Modelling commodity futures/options market participants.
Modelling market impact of key commodity price drivers.
Building and maintaining internal and external analytics dashboards.
Building and maintaining datasets and code base.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Minimum Master’s degree in a quantitative field (Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, Finance).
Excellent programming skills in Python / R and strong familiarity with numeric libraries and methods.
Strong expertise in time series analysis (financial econometrics and/or ML).
Strong knowledge of options strategies and pricing models and risk metrics.
Good communicator and synthesiser of complex material (written and spoken).
Core data science and data management skills. Cleaning, processing, merging and presenting.
Ability to work independently to solve technical challenges with practical problem-solving skills, to tight deadlines.

Desirable skills

Commodity or macro markets exposure.
Experience working with financial data and financial derivative products.
Experience producing dashboards (Plotly Dash / Shiny) or other data visualisation methods.
Interest in wider financial markets and global economics.

Benefits

Welcome to our unique workplace where a passion for our industry-leading product sits at the heart of who we are.

Life at EA is completely eclectic, fostered through the global nature of the business and a real appreciation of the many cultures of our diverse team. We unite as a single, cohesive team through an array of social clubs that cater to a spectrum of interests, from running and yoga to football and culinary adventures. These groups create a collegial and dynamic atmosphere that extends beyond work, promoting a healthy and balanced lifestyle for our team.

Our strategically located offices are all set in prestigious buildings, offering you the convenience of nearby gyms, retail therapy, diverse dining options, and accessible public transport.

Our office spaces are thoughtfully equipped to enhance your day-to-day experience whether working independently or collaborating with teammates. Enjoy the simple pleasures of a freshly brewed coffee, healthy snacks, and a social space for celebratory moments. One of the unique traits of life at Energy Aspects is the way our international colleagues often delight us with treats from around the globe. It’s safe to say you’ll never go hungry in our offices!

We recognize your contribution with a competitive compensation package that includes annual bonuses, comprehensive private health insurance, and substantial pension contributions. Additionally, we offer company share options, subsidized gym memberships, and a generous holiday policy to support your financial and personal well-being.

Join a company that values your professional growth and personal fulfilment, all within a supportive and engaging environment.

About Energy Aspects

Founded in 2012, we are an independent research consultancy that has enjoyed phenomenal growth since our inception, and we have very ambitious plans to continue our upwards growth trajectory. We are passionately committed to providing indispensable and industry-leading short, medium and long-term analysis, and forecasts of the energy markets, that helps our clients trade, invest, finance and plan.

We pride ourselves on the quality of our work and draw on a wide range of experience and expertise to derive our views. We are made up of expertise in upstream production, trading, quant analytics and econometric forecasting, to name a few. We haves always maintained a key focus on the geopolitics of the energy industry and the impacts they can have in shaping global markets. We have in recent years acquired several firms to enhance our position in energy market consultancy, including Medley Global Advisors (2020), OilX (2022), INAS (2023) and MMSA (2024) bringing additional expertise in macro trends, oil market data and paper positioning into the group. We are also growing our offering to clients focused on the energy transition, providing tradeable insights on long-term trends.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and promote diversity within our workforce. As an international business we are determined that suitably qualified persons will never receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status, race, veteran status or any other applicable basis.

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