Derivatives (Commercial Supply & Trading).

Manages commodity derivative instruments linked to underlying prices, indices, assets, or exposures

SeniorSoftware spend $42,000 / seat / yr (2025)19 contacts in the graph hold this role

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What this role actually does

Responsibilities and pain points, sourced from the production graph.

Key responsibilities

Price and Quote Exchange-traded and OTC Commodity Derivatives Using Live Curves, Volatility Surfaces, and Counterparty Terms
Own Daily Risk-adjusted P&L for Assigned Futures, Options, Swaps, and Structured Hedge Books Within Approved Risk Limits
Execute Hedges and Client Trades Across Listed Venues, Broker Markets, and Bilateral OTC Channels with Controlled Slippage
Monitor Market Conditions, Supply-demand Shocks, Basis Moves, Volatility, Liquidity, and Credit Events That Affect the Book
Maintain Accurate Trade Capture, Amendments, Allocations, and End-of-day Marks Across Front-office, Risk, and Settlement Systems
Report Positions, P&L Explain, Greeks, VaR, Stress Results, and Limit Use to Risk Management and Desk Leadership

Software pain points

Manual reconciliation between execution venues, CTRM/ETRM, Excel, risk, and ERP causes late P&L explain
Spreadsheets hold live pricing logic that is hard to version, audit, and review after market moves
Traders switch between terminals, chat, voice, exchange screens, and risk dashboards during fast markets
OTC trade terms, confirmations, and amendments often require repeated rekeying across front and back office
Regulatory evidence for quotes, chats, approvals, and lifecycle events is scattered across systems
Intraday exposure and collateral impact are not visible early enough for large market shocks

How this role buys

The categories they buy, the people who approve.

Top software categories

Financial Market Data & Terminals
Brokerage Trading Platforms
Commodity/Energy Trading, Transaction, & Risk Management (CTRM/ETRM) Software
Other Retail Software
Risk Management Software
Spreadsheet Software

Decision makers

Head of Trading
Chief Risk Officer (CRO) - Corporate
Digital Forensics Engineering
Head of Compliance / Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) - Corporate
Top / Chief Financial Officer (CFO) - Corporate

Workflow

A day in the workflow.

Starts before the U.S. open by checking overnight energy, metals, rates, and FX moves in Bloomberg Terminal, CME Direct, ICE Connect, and email; pulls live curves into Microsoft Excel, reconciles starting positions and P&L in Openlink Endur or Murex MX.3, and checks VaR, Greeks, and limit headroom in the risk dashboard; spends mid-morning quoting futures, options, swaps, and structured hedges through CME Direct, ICE Connect, Bloomberg TOMS, broker chat, and voice logs; joins a desk huddle on Microsoft Teams with risk, origination, operations, and scheduling to discuss client flow, hedge needs, collateral, and market events; uses Excel, Python notebooks, Numerix Oneview, and LSEG Workspace for scenario analysis and relative-value screens; executes or amends hedges, confirms fills, and books trades in the CTRM/ETRM system; closes by explaining P&L, documenting exceptions, approving end-of-day marks, and exporting trade and communication evidence for compliance review

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