Quantitative Analyst Lead, V&S LNG

What you will do

Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team of LNG quantitative analysts supporting global LNG trading, portfolio management, and commercial activities. Provide quantitative leadership to traders, originators, and structuring teams by delivering robust valuation, optimization, and risk analysis for LNG transactions and portfolios. Lead the development, implementation, and maintenance of advanced valuation and optimization models supporting LNG trading, structured transactions, and portfolio optimization activities. Oversee the valuation of embedded optionality across LNG supply and offtake agreements, destination flexibility, cargo diversion rights, shipping portfolios, storage agreements, and regasification capacity. Partner directly with traders and originators to evaluate commercial opportunities, structure transactions, assess risk-reward tradeoffs, and develop value-maximizing strategies. Develop analytical frameworks that optimize LNG sourcing, transportation, storage, shipping, and market placement decisions across global LNG portfolios. Apply advanced quantitative techniques including stochastic modeling, Monte Carlo simulation, optimization methodologies, and scenario analysis to support commercial decision-making. Provide independent valuation challenge and risk assessment for complex LNG transactions, ensuring transparency, consistency, and robust commercial evaluation. Advise front-office stakeholders on hedging strategies, portfolio risk management, and quantitative approaches to managing commodity price, basis, freight, and optionality exposures. Collaborate with traders, portfolio managers, risk teams, and senior leadership to identify strategic opportunities and enhance portfolio performance. Lead model validation, back-testing, calibration, and governance activities to ensure analytical rigor and continuous improvement of quantitative frameworks. Act as a subject matter expert on LNG valuation methodologies, portfolio optimization techniques, and commercial optionality modeling. Collaborate with technology and data teams to enhance analytical infrastructure, improve model deployment processes, and deliver scalable production-ready solutions. Communicate complex quantitative concepts, valuation outputs, and portfolio insights clearly and effectively to commercial stakeholders and senior leadership. Foster quantitative best practices, technical excellence, and knowledge sharing across the Global Trading Analytics organization. What you will bring Master's or PhD degree in Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Financial Engineering, Operations Research, Physics, Engineering, Economics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative discipline. Significant front-office quantitative analytics experience supporting LNG traders, originators, structuring teams, or portfolio managers within commodity trading or energy trading organizations. Demonstrated leadership experience managing, mentoring, or leading quantitative analytics teams in a commercial trading environment. Extensive experience working directly with traders and commercial decision-makers to evaluate transactions, structure deals, assess risk exposures, and identify value creation opportunities. Deep understanding of LNG valuation, portfolio optimization, structured transactions, and commercial optionality. Strong expertise in option pricing theory, stochastic modeling, optimization techniques, Monte Carlo simulation, and risk analytics. Experience valuing LNG supply agreements, LNG offtake contracts, destination flexibility, shippin