Associate, Precious Metals Trader, Commodities
Trade precious-metal spot and derivative products at CITIC. The position manages desk risks and works with quants on pricing and trading-system improvements.
What you’d work on
Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.
- Execute metal trades across exchanges and OTC markets.
- Monitor mark-to-market results and liquidity exposures.
- Improve pricing and risk tools with quantitative colleagues.
What they ask for
Required
- Commodity trading experience
- Data processing and quantitative analysis
- Risk judgement
- Mandarin and English
- Education
- Bachelor’s or higher in finance, financial engineering, statistics or a related field.
- Experience
- 3–5 years in commodities trading; precious-metal experience preferred.
- Markets
- commodities, futures, options
How to prepare
- Analyse a metal spot-futures basis trade.
- Build a desk exposure and P&L report.
- Stress liquidity and hedge risks across venues.
What to study
- Financial Instruments, Markets and Conventions
- Market Microstructure and Execution
- Quantitative Risk Management
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with CITIC Securities International Company Limited and doesn’t handle applications.