ExxonMobil

I wanted to know more about what really goes on in a commodities shop, so I cold-emailed a crude originator.

Rotated around teams in the front and middle office.

1. 01Contributed pricing inputs, cash-flow analysis and counterparty credit checks to the structuring of a crude-backed loan funding offshore drilling near Venezuela.
2. 02Tracked geopolitical drivers, time-spreads, cracks, freight and FX with the LPG and naphtha analysts.
3. 03Learned how desk risk limits are monitored and how P&L is attributed.
4. 04Studied hedging with futures and swaps, and optimisation around logistics and storage.
5. 05Built a dashboard for physical-flow calculations.

A new love for optimising systems and coming up with trade ideas.

• Excel
• Credit analysis
• Futures & swaps
• Dashboards