Purpose

Energy Aspects is seeking a Quantitative Analyst to join our derivatives analytics team. 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.

This position will require flexibility and the drive to go beyond the core hours when needed, ensuring we all fulfil our goals. 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.

Duties

• Preparing and contributing to many of our publications.
• Modelling commodity futures/options market participants.
• Modelling market impact of key commodity price drivers.
• Building and maintaining datasets and code base.

Requirements 

• Minimum Master’s degree in a quantitative field (Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics, Finance).
• 1 - 3 years experience working in a financial institution.
• 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).
• 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

• 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.

About us                                                                                

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.

Energy Aspects prides itself in the quality of its work and draws on a wide range of competencies to derive its views. The company is staffed with experts in upstream production, trading and econometric forecasting. It has always maintained a key focus on the geopolitics of the energy industry and the impacts they can have in shaping global markets. The company has in recent years acquired several firms to enhance its position in energy market consultancy including Medley Global Advisors (2020), OilX (2022) and INAS (2023) bringing additional expertise in macro trends, oil market data and paper positioning into the group. The company is also growing its offering to clients on the energy transition providing the tradeable insights on long-term trends.

Culture & benefits

With accreditation from Best Companies, we understand the importance of workplace engagement and holding sincere appreciation for our team. Our environment is characterised by its fast-paced, driven, collaborative, and dynamic ethos. Recognising and rewarding contributions that have played a part in our remarkable journey of growth.

Joining Energy Aspects, you become a part of our vibrant and sociable team. Here, you'll have the opportunity to participate in activities, from running and five-a-side football to joining our lunch gatherings and brand-new Chess club. Our in-house bar, the Nodding Donkey, offers a casual setting for Friday afternoon unwinding.

Located in Canary Wharf with convenient access around London, our location offers nearby amenities such as shopping, gyms, dining, and lively bars. We provide daily refreshments, including fruit, hot drinks, snacks, and the expert services of an in-house barista twice a week, along with occasional exotic treats inspired by our global adventures.

Our compensation packages encompass a yearly bonus, participation in a company share options scheme, private health insurance, life assurance, income protection, pension contributions, subsidised gym memberships, and holiday allowance.

Energy Aspects is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and promotes diversity within its 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 basis covered by appropriate law.