Capital Markets Consultant

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Capital Markets Consultant with strong domain knowledge in commodities trading and hands-on experience in implementing or enhancing Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) or Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) platforms. The candidate will work with commodity trading firms, energy companies, financial institutions, and technology teams to deliver end-to-end platform implementation and transformation initiatives. The role involves requirements gathering, business process analysis, functional solution design, system configuration, integration, testing, and implementation support across the commodities trade lifecycle. The ideal candidate will have a good understanding of physical and financial commodity trading, trade lifecycle management, risk and valuation processes, and the integration of trading platforms with downstream systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Commodities Domain Expertise

  • Demonstrate strong understanding of commodities trading across one or more asset classes, including oil and refined products, natural gas, power, metals, agricultural commodities, or LNG.
  • Understand physical and financial commodity trading processes, including spot, forward, futures, options, swaps, and structured contracts, as applicable.
  • Analyse the end-to-end trade lifecycle, from deal capture and confirmation to scheduling, logistics, invoicing, settlement, and accounting.
  • Understand key commercial terms such as pricing formulas, market indices, volume and quality specifications, delivery locations, incoterms, and contract terms.
  • Support processes involving physical commodity movements, inventory management, nominations, scheduling, and logistics, where relevant.
  • Understand commodity market risk concepts, including mark-to-market (MtM) valuation, position management, exposure analysis, and profit and loss (P&L) reporting.

• CTRM/ETRM Platform Implementation

  • Participate in end-to-end implementation, enhancement, or migration of CTRM/ETRM platforms.
  • Gather and analyse business requirements from trading, operations, risk, scheduling, finance, and settlement teams.
  • Map business processes to platform capabilities and identify configuration requirements, functional gaps, and customisation needs.
  • Prepare business requirements documents (BRDs), functional specifications, user stories, process flows, and configuration documentation.
  • Support functional design, system configuration, reference data setup, workflow design, and trade template configuration.