AEJ Consulting Ltd
Trade Support Engineer
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Trade Support Engineer
A London-based commodities trading firm is hiring its next Trade Support Engineer. You'll be the first line between the trading desk and everything it depends on. Oil derivatives move fast, so when a trade doesn't book, a price looks wrong, or a report doesn't land, you're the person who spots it, chases it, and gets it sorted before it costs anyone money. It's a proper front-row seat on how a trading business runs.
What you'll do
- Own daily trade lifecycle support: bookings, amendments, allocations, and give-ups across physical and derivatives flow
- Investigate and clear breaks between internal systems, brokers, exchanges, and clearers
- Run start-of-day and end-of-day checks, and escalate fast when something looks off
- Keep an eye on pricing and market data feeds, and chase down missing or bad data at source
- Act as the link between traders and the tech team, translating desk problems into clear, reproducible issues
- Support onboarding of new products, counterparties, and accounts
- Build and maintain reconciliations and reporting in Excel
- Get close to the systems behind the desk, running queries against trade and market data to find answers yourself
- Write up processes and runbooks so the desk isn't reliant on one person's memory
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What we're looking for
- 0–2 years in trade support, middle office, operations, or a related markets role (strong grads welcome)
- Strong Excel and confidence handling data and spotting when numbers don't add up
- Genuine interest in commodities and derivatives, and you can explain what a futures contract is without Googling it
- Curiosity about the tech side. No coding background needed, just an interest in understanding how the systems fit together
- Calm under pressure, and you own a problem until it's actually closed
- Clear communicator who can talk to a trader and an engineer in the same five minutes
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Nice to have
- Exposure to an ETRM or in-house booking system
- Familiarity with ICE, CME, or LME workflows, clearing, and give-ups
- Any SQL or scripting, whether from a course, a project, or a previous role
- A placement year or internship at a trading house, broker, or bank
What's on offer
- Small teams, no layers. Your work is visible from day one
- Sit next to the desk and learn the market properly
- A modern technical environment, with support to pick up tooling and data skills on the job
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