Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Commercially-focused market strategist with over a decade of experience in LNG, gas, power, oil and financial markets. Proven track-record of developing and communicating global trading and origination strategy whilst leading the development of innovative market analytics. Reputation for providing insightful challenge and driving productive debate with a high-energy and collaborative approach. Passionate about developing people, creating inclusive cultures and the energy transition.
Responsibilities: + Develop short and long-term Global LNG & Gas market calls, including successful trading recommendations and long-term origination strategies. + Leadership of medium-term fundamentals strategy in a Steering Committee role alongside Trading and Origination. + Leadership of cross-disciplinary squads to build fundamental price-forecasting models. + Day-to-day line management and coaching of junior strategists. Achievements: + Developed innovative trading calls and fundamental models to deliver strong and sustained PnL. + Led a cross-functional front office team to identify actions to improve the culture of Inclusion in the trading business, with measurable improvements.
Responsibilities: + Deliver market calls and trading/origination recommendations based upon fundamentals analysis + Provide market insight to LNG trading bench through discussions and ad-hoc analysis + Run, develop and create LNG fundamental models Achievements: + As sole analyst in London for 1-year, led the development and delivery of analytics in a record breaking year, with PnL driven by strong market calls and trading recommendations. + Designed and developed new analytical approaches including derivatives market analysis and European LNG price forecasting. + Worked closely with European Gas team to integrate the global gas balances and delivery an truly global market view.
Responsibilities: • Analysis of macroeconomics, geopolitics, market positioning and flow to inform FX and rates trading strategy. • Country-level economic and financial market risk assessments to inform Group Treasury strategy. • Ad-hoc macro pieces assessing the impact of financial market developments on commodities, for wider IST. Achievements: • Delivered a comprehensive Brexit study to inform Group hedging strategy. • Introduced a regular politics note to identify FX trading opportunites. • Ran an FX trading simulation book and produced solid PnL.
• Gathered insights into the inspiration, browsing and purchasing stages of the retail shopping consumer decision journey • Formulated a 10-point action plan aligned to business strategy, consisting of creative and original ideas • Delivered a 45 minute presentation to a cross functional client audience • Compiled a 6000 word academic report for Judge Business School submission
• President of the largest sporting society in Churchill College, with 4 men's teams and 1 women's team • Managed £910 annual budget • Won £650 additional funding, allowing the hire of the first club coach • Collaborated cross-functionally with the Conference officers to organise World Cup social events • Secured a 1st XI league title for the first time in 9 years
Market Analyst | European Gas and LNG | Integrated Supply and Trading | BP • Streamlined and created consistency across daily team processes by recommending and implementing structural changes in a consultancy type role • Designed and built a user-friendly model to graphically track LNG Inventory Levels across Europe and North America, working closely with teams in Madrid and Houston • Monitored the impact of increased solar capacity during UK summer months on net grid demand to assess the validities of forecast models • Benchmarked competing UK/German Solar/Wind capacity forecast providers to inform the Power Trading bench's subscription choices
• Entrusted with full-time roles and responsibilities to facilitate an employee changeover in a Retail Property Programme worth over £350 million • Built and presented a crucial supply-demand model to a Senior Director, used to identify programme risks and inform procurement • Strategized and performed key analysis to solve these risks by working cross-functionally alongside various business areas