Trading Analyst - Agricultural Derivatives

About Javelin

Javelin Global Commodities is a leading global commodities marketing, trading, logistics services and investment firm with head offices in London and wider global offices in New York, Dallas, San Diego, St Louis, Canada, Switzerland, Poland, Dubai, India, Singapore, China and Australia. Javelin was founded in 2015 and now operates across six continents with respect to more than 20 different commodities across thermal coal, metallurgical coal, iron ore, steel scrap, metals, hydrocarbons, freight, agriculture, and renewables.

Established in 2015, Javelin employs over 200 people and is a unique place to grow your career. We take pride in our values, global reach, meritocratic culture and strong work ethic.  Our success over the years has been built on our guiding principles of customer service, creativity, transparency, integrity, and responsibility.

Whilst our footprint grows, we still foster a small-company atmosphere. We have a flat company structure and encourage collaboration across all seniority levels, teams and locations to generate the best ideas. Javelin has a dedicated strategy to support local and meaningful charities through volunteer days, donation matching, a ‘give as you earn’ scheme and other fundraising activities. We are committed to the wellbeing of our colleagues and organise various social evenings, sports clubs and lunchtime activities.  Our London office has on-site gym facilities and a golf/sports simulator.

The Role

As an Analyst you will sit in a high-growth Agricultural Trading team within an organisation rapidly expanding its presence across global markets. This role offers a rare opportunity to work directly with senior traders from day one, help build the team’s analytical and research foundation and over time potentially grow into a risk-taking seat as the department requires. The ideal person would have a significant internship or up to two years’ experience within a commercial or quantitative-led role ideally in the commodity sector.

Key Responsibilities Include: 

This role is built for a resourceful individual eager to take ownership of both daily support and long-term automation projects. Your focus will be on:

• Automation & Development: Design and implement streamlined workflows and data pipelines using your preferred tool (Excel, Python, etc.). This includes automating the aggregation of fundamental market data (supply/demand stats) and developing tools to identify market dislocations.
• Analytical Infrastructure: Contribute to the development and maintenance of research infrastructure, back testing frameworks, and analytical models used for trade selection and opportunity discovery.
• Core Trading Support: Provide essential daily support to senior traders by performing pre-market system checks, maintaining accurate fundamental databases, and reconciling daily portfolio positions. You will learn the discretionary investment process firsthand.

Requirements

Experience: Fresh university graduate with an internship up to 1-2 years’ of relevant industry experience.

Skills:

• A proven ability and passion for automation and leveraging data analysis to solve complex problems.
• Strong Excel modelling skills are essential; some experience with Python is a bonus.
• Strong quantitative and analytical reasoning skills.
• Proactive communicator, easily able to disperse complex information into digestible formats to a range of stakeholders.

Attitude: Exceptional enthusiasm for developing deep expertise in global Agricultural markets (derivatives and physical) and a proactive, diligent work ethic to handle a demanding, fast-paced workload.

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus
• 25 days holiday
• Company pension scheme (10% company contribution)
• Private medical scheme with a range of additional wellbeing benefits
• Travel insurance
• Income protection
• Life assurance (5x salary)
• Bike2Work scheme including secure storage and showers
• Season ticket loan
• Onsite gym
• Social environment with a breakout area with a golf simulator, darts board and foosball table.