Capco - Capital Markets Consultant – Commodities

• Commodities Domain Expertise • Demonstrate strong understanding of commodities trading across one or more asset classes, including oil and refined products, natural gas, power, metals, agricultural commodities, or LNG. • Understand physical and financial commodity trading processes, including spot, forward, futures, options, swaps, and structured contracts, as applicable. • Analyse the end-to-end trade lifecycle, from deal capture and confirmation to scheduling, logistics, invoicing, settlement, and accounting. • Understand key commercial terms such as pricing formulas, market indices, volume and quality specifications, delivery locations, incoterms, and contract terms. • Support processes involving physical commodity movements, inventory management, nominations, scheduling, and logistics, where relevant. • Understand commodity market risk concepts, including mark-to-market (MtM) valuation, position management, exposure analysis, and profit and loss (P&L) reporting. • CTRM/ETRM Platform Implementation • Participate in end-to-end implementation, enhancement, or migration of CTRM/ETRM platforms. • Gather and analyse business requirements from trading, operations, risk, scheduling, finance, and settlement teams. • Map business processes to platform capabilities and identify configuration requirements, functional gaps, and customisation needs. • Prepare business requirements documents (BRDs), functional specifications, user stories, process flows, and configuration documentation. • Support functional design, system configuration, reference data setup, workflow design, and trade template configuration. • Work with technical teams on interfaces, data mapping, reports, extensions, and system integrations. • Support fit-gap analysis and recommend standard platform capabilities or alternative solutions to minimise unnecessary customisation. • Participate in data migration, reconciliation, and validation activities during platform rollouts. • Commodities Trade Lifecycle and Functional Workflows • Support implementation of deal capture and trade management workflows for physical and financial commodity transactions. • Configure or validate contract structures, pricing formulas, delivery terms, payment terms, and trade amendments. • Support physical commodity workflows covering inventory, logistics, scheduling, nominations, and movements, where applicable. • Work on risk management processes, including position reporting, MtM valuation, market data management, and exposure analysis. • Support settlements, invoicing, accounts payable/receivable, and integration with enterprise resource planning (ERP) and accounting systems. • Validate trade lifecycle events, including amendments, cancellations, settlements, and period-end processing. • Analyse exceptions, breaks, and reconciliation issues across trading, operations, risk, and finance systems. • Integration and Data Management • Work with technology teams to define and validate integrations between CTRM/ETRM platforms and external systems. • Support interfaces with market data providers, exchanges, brokers, logistics providers, banks, ERP platforms, and risk or accounting systems. • Assist with source-to-target data mapping, interface specifications, and field-level transformation rules. • Support migration of trade data, contracts, counterparties, reference data, market curves, and relevant historical transactions. • Validate data quality, completeness, and consistency across integrated systems. • Use SQL, Excel, or equivalent tools for data analysis, reconciliation, and investigation of functional issues. • Testing and Implementation Delivery • Develop functional test scenarios and test cases covering end-to-end commodity trading workflows. • Coordinate and execute System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), regression testing, and end-to-end testing. • Validate trade capture, pricing, valuation, position reporting, physical movements, invoicing, and settlement outcomes. • Log defects, perform root-cause analysis, and coordinate resolution with product vendors and technical teams. • Support mock migrations, cutover planning, go-live readiness assessments, and production validation. • Provide post-implementation support, troubleshoot functional issues, and assist with stabilisation and hypercare activities. • Maintain implementation documentation, issue logs, requirements traceability, and status reporting • Stakeholder and Client Management • Collaborate with traders, trading operations, risk managers, schedulers, finance teams, and IT stakeholders. • Facilitate requirements workshops, process walkthroughs, solution demonstrations, and design discussions. • Translate business requirements into clear functional specifications for technical teams and platform vendors. • Manage assigned workstreams, dependencies, risks, issues, and deliverables. • Communicate project progress and functional challenges to project managers and senior stakeholders. • Mentor junior consultants and contribute to implementation best practices and reusable delivery assets.