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About the Role
The Commodities Analyst will bridge the gap between market intelligence and trading, delivering real-time insights and conducting in-depth fundamental analysis to inform trading strategies. This role is essential for enabling fast, accurate, and confident trading in a highly competitive environment.
Responsibilities
- Conduct detailed fundamental, macroeconomic, and geopolitical analysis across Chinese and global commodity markets, with a focus on key markets such as oil, LNG, the petrochemical chain, base metals, and coal.
- Develop a deep understanding of commodity value chains, including supply and demand dynamics, production economics, trade flows, inventories, and the relationships between upstream and downstream markets.
- Track regulatory developments and government policy globally and within China that are relevant to commodity markets and trading.
- Identify, monitor, and evaluate upcoming catalysts and structural developments across the commodity markets.
- Generate trading ideas based on expected volatility and market direction, working closely with the trading team to evaluate and execute strategies.
- Monitor supply and demand trends, inventory levels, shipping and trade flows, policy changes, and other market-moving factors.
- Develop and maintain data models, dashboards, and research tools using Python, SQL, and other analytics platforms.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in a commodities-focused analytical role within the buy-side, sell-side, consulting, trading house, or a related environment.
- Strong understanding of Chinese commodity markets, commodity value chains, and the macroeconomic factors that influence them.
- Familiarity with Bloomberg or other market intelligence platforms.
- High attention to detail, strong communication skills, and the ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Skills
- Python
- SQL
- Mandarin Chinese
- English
Experience Level
- 3+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Economics, Finance, Engineering, Data Science, or a related quantitative field.
About the Company
- IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone.
- Since 1989, IMC has been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend.
- IMC has offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India.
- IMC professionals are united by a collaborative, high-performance culture and a commitment to giving back.
- IMC continuously innovates and collaborates to succeed by entering dynamic new markets, embracing disruptive technologies, developing an innovative research environment, and diversifying trading strategies.