Summer Placement - Global Trading - Quantitative Analyst - London - 2025 start date

Finance, Maths, Analytics, IT.

About us

At ExxonMobil, our vision is to lead in energy innovations that advance modern living and a net-zero future. As one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy and chemical companies, we are powered by a unique and diverse workforce fuelled by the pride in what we do and what we stand for.

We are Exxonmobil
Exxonmobil is working to deliver reliable and affordable energy and products.

The success of our Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimise our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower-emissions technologies.

We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs. Learn more about our What and our Why and how we can work together.

ExxonMobil Global Trading is where we trade oil, natural gas, and energy products safely and responsibly around the world. We leverage our expertise in analytics, logistics, origination, and knowledge of energy markets to maximise the value of our global assets and deliver industry-leading results. This is an exciting time to join our growing trading team and be an integral part of ExxonMobil!

What role you will play in our team

We are now recruiting for our 2025 Summer Placement Programme. We are looking for people who can think analytically, enjoy innovating and want to apply their skills to solve real challenges in a trading environment. You will spend 8 weeks with our global Quantitative Analytics team in our Global Trading organisation, commencing in July 2025.

This team’s general responsibility is working day-to-day with traders, analysts, origination and business-development teams across global business lines to support trading, commercial, and project activities and studies. As part of our Summer Placement Programme, you will be mentored by Senior Front-Office Quants and work very closely with our trading teams on our trade floor.

What you will do

You will apply your skills to accomplish the following:

  • Develop a basic understanding of the energy commodity market
  • Conduct in-depth analysis of quantitative models and back test the performance
  • Support market-based valuations of physical assets and structured deals
  • Develop and recommend profitable trading/hedging strategies
  • Document the key results and assumptions

Whilst on placement with ExxonMobil you will have support and guidance from managers, supervisors and recent graduates to enable you to apply your degree knowledge and fulfil your potential. You will gain confidence and experience as an individual, learning new skills in a real trading environment.

About you

  • Be in the penultimate or final year of your Master's or PhD studies in Mathematical Finance, Computational Finance, Financial Engineering, or similar subject
  • Have an understanding of option theory, particularly stochastic calculus and option Greeks
  • Be familiar with financial engineering techniques, such as Monte Carlo simulation and dynamic programming
  • Be fluent in a programming language such as Python or Excel-VBA
  • Be seeking to gain work experience on an 8 week paid Summer Placement, commencing in July 2025
  • Be able to demonstrate:
    • Outstanding analytical, numerical and problem solving skills
    • A strong attention to detail
    • An interest in commodity and financial markets
    • The ability to communicate, collaborate and work effectively within an international team environment
    • Leadership capabilities

What are the next steps?

If you are Interested, you can apply now. The closing date for this opportunity is Sunday 3rd November 2024, at which point we will begin our two-stage assessment process.

  • Behavioural assessment.
  • Technical, competency-based interview (virtual over Zoom).

If your application is not successful at any stage we will let you know as soon as we can.

ExxonMobil recognises that recruiting and developing the right people is key to our success and so we look for applicants who demonstrate the right skills, attitudes, capability and potential. Our processes are designed to be robust, engaging and consistent.

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  • Deadline
    November 3rd, 2024
  • Starting
    July 2025
  • Salary
    Competitive + benefits
  • Degree required
    Master's and above (expected)
  • Duration
    8 weeks
  • Location
    London
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Preferred Disciplines...
  • Analytics
  • Data Science
  • FinTech
  • Finance
  • Information Technology
  • Maths
  • Statistics
Also Accepting...
  • Accountancy
  • Business
  • Economics
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