This leading global commodity trading firm is well-positioned to achieve its growth plans for the region. The firm has recently created a new Digital and Innovation team within the commercial business. This team is responsible to identify new technologies to enable the sales and trading department uplift their bottom line.

Responsibilities

With this comes an exciting opportunity for inspiring individuals to join the high performing data scientist team.  The team works directly with commodity traders, sales and quants and will represent PoCs to the stakeholders etc.  The team aims to harness alternative data (geo-spatial, social media, transaction data etc) by building and deploying Machine Learning/AI techniques to assist with key trading decisions. This role gives a wonderful opportunity to data scientists who desire to be closer to business and wish to make an impact.

Requirements

This candidate should have MSc or PhD in Statistics, Mathematics or Computer Science with hands-on commercial experience (exposure to trading) . He or she should have at least 5+ years’ experience with analytical programming, including libraries for cleaning, reshaping, exploring and visualizing data (e.g. Python, R, Spark, D3). Strong communication is a must for this role.

To apply

Interested candidates, please send your CV to sz@kerryconsulting.com quoting SZ 19617.Due to the high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates are notified.

Registration No: R1104305

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