Commodities Index Developer

Are you looking for a career move that will put you at the heart of a global financial institution? Then bring your skills in analysis, problem solving and communication to Citi’s Commodities Team.

By Joining Citi, you will become part of a global organisation whose mission is to serve as a trusted partner to our clients by responsibly providing financial services that enable growth and economic progress.

Team/Role Overview

Commodity indices are a growing business at Citi, in a rapidly evolving market: sophisticated investors are increasingly interested in more complex risk premia-based approaches.

The resulting business opportunity is significant – but the need for increasingly sophisticated indices and analyses mean that our team is too lightly staffed to capture the opportunity.

The purpose of the job is to help build on the recent successes in the Citi Commodity index space, in order to make Citi a leading player in this space, through:

• developing cutting-edge systematic investment strategies, using Commodity futures and options as the building blocks, working with trading, sales, and structuring;
• proposing sophisticated analyses on existing and new indices to improve their marketability;
• improving the resilience of the platform through working with trading, IT, quants;
• helping to originate business through pitching the ideas to sales and potentially clients.

What you’ll do

• Development of commodity investment strategies and products, collaborating with sales, structuring, trading, research, IT and quantitative analysis
• Working to enhance robustness and efficiency of index platform, moving towards more automated processes and applying an industrial and scalable approach to the full product lifecycle.
• Back testing and in-depth analysis of investment ideas proactively and in response to investor queries
• Working with various departments (legal, sales, trading, research, IT and quantitative analysis) to turn ideas into products which can be sold and traded

What we’ll need from you

• Significant experience in commodity index development is an absolute pre-requisite
• Experience of structuring and executing complex index trades
• Individual must be highly quantitative and analytical
• Critical: in-depth programming skills and experience of using a wide variety of analysis tools to perform complex modelling
• Critical: knowledge and understanding of commodity markets
• Individual must be highly driven, self-motivated
• Keen to work with other groups to develop best in class products and grow the index business
• Quantitative / technical degree, i.e. maths, physics, computer science

By joining Citi London, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as: 

• Generous holiday allowance starting at 27 days plus bank holidays; increasing with tenure.

• A discretional annual performance related bonus 

• Private medical insurance packages to suit your personal circumstances.

• Employee Assistance Program  

• Pension Plan 

• Paid Parental Leave 

• Exclusive discounts for employees, family, and friends 

• Access to an array of learning and development resources 

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay, and empowered to thrive. 

Sounds like Citi has everything you need? Then apply to discover the true extent of your capabilities.

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Candidates applying for this role must be aware that it is a Certified Role, subject to the FCA and PRA Certification Regime.

The Certification Regime is one element of the Individual Accountability Regime which came into effect on 7 March 2016.

Under the Certification Regime, Citi UK regulated entities (Citi entities) must ensure that employees working in certain roles categorised as specified significant harm functions (Certified Roles) are assessed as fit and proper to carry out their role.

Under the guidance provided by the FCA and PRA, firms should have regard to the following when assessing fitness and propriety:

• Honesty, integrity and reputation

• Financial soundness

• Competence and capability

In order to comply with the requirements of the Certification Regime, Citi entities must take reasonable care to ensure that an employee does not perform a Certified Role without first being certified as Fit and Proper. For this reason, you will be assessed for this role against the Fit and Proper requirements, as described above.

This assessment will be carried out through extensive interviews, self-disclosures, permitted criminal record checks, regulated reference checks, credit checks and other background screening checks.”

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