AI Analyst

Licensed sponsor London Full-time Posted 1 week ago

AI Enablement Analyst — Concentrates

Location: London, UK (Hybrid: 4 days in office, 1 work from home)

Focus: Trade lifecycle visibility, operational and financial analytics, workflow automation, AI-enabled process improvement

Role Overview

We are seeking an AI Enablement Analyst to work directly with the Concentrates business and help create greater visibility, automation, and intelligence across the physical commodity trade financing lifecycle.

The role will sit close to finance and technology stakeholders and will focus on understanding how financing requirements arise from physical commodity transactions and how they evolve through the lifecycle of a deal.

A key objective of the role will be to help design and build a new Trade Finance tool, leveraging existing data available within Hartree's data lake and internal system.

The successful candidate will help handle information into structured, trusted workflows that give the business a clearer view of:

financing requirements associated with physical commodity transactions,
existing loans, advances, and other financing instruments,
expected and actual cash movements,
upcoming funding requirements,
what has changed,
what requires action,
and where operational or financial exceptions exist.

This is a hands-on AI Enablement and business analytics role, not a traditional software engineering position. The ideal candidate combines strong business-analysis and data skills with enough technical ability to prototype workflows using AI, automation, SQL, Python, reporting tools, and enterprise data sources. Domain experience in finance, metals, concentrates, mining, commodities, logistics, ETRM/CTRM or commodity operations would be highly valuable.

What You’ll Do

Trade Finance Workflow Automation – 80%

Identify high-volume, repetitive, or error-prone Trade Finance processes and convert them into structured automated workflows.
Potential use cases include:
Identification of transactions requiring financing
Funding requirement monitoring
Facility and limit utilisation monitoring
Loan and advance management
Loan repayment tracking
Expected cash-flow monitoring
Financing capacity forecasting
Exception monitoring
Missing-information alerts
Invoice and payment-status tracking
Financing cost calculations
Automated daily Trade Finance recaps
Action queues showing outstanding issues, owners, and deadlines
Extraction of structured information from PDFs, spreadsheets, and email

You will work closely with business users to ensure automation reflects how the process actually operates rather than simply reproducing existing manual steps electronically.

AI-Enabled Workflow Design – 20%

Use internal AI and automation capabilities to build practical tools that improve how Concentrates users work.
Examples may include:
AI-generated daily trade / operations summaries
Contract and document extraction agents
Natural-language Q&A over trade and logistics information
Automated exception classification
AI-assisted reconciliation investigation
Workflow copilots for Operations and Finance
Narrative explanations of movements and variances
Knowledge assistants over process documentation and SOPs

You will help create

Prompt templates
Reusable agent workflows
Structured output schemas
Validation rules
Evaluation datasets
User-facing playbooks

Data & Systems Integration

Work across structured and unstructured data from

CTRM platforms
Finance systems
Market / pricing data
Internal databases and APIs

Responsibilities include

Mapping business fields across systems
Identifying sources of truth
Reconciling conflicting records
Defining data-quality checks
Supporting API and data-feed requirements
Working with technology teams to productionize successful prototypes

Business Partnership

You will spend significant time directly with Concentrates personnel to understand the business at a detailed level. Stakeholders may include:

Finance
Technology
Data teams
Operations
Traders
Risk

You should be comfortable asking basic questions, observing existing workflows, challenging inefficient processes, and translating business problems into structured delivery requirements.

What Success Looks Like

Within the first year, success should mean

The business has a new Trade Finance tool providing much clearer visibility across financing activities.
Financing requirements can be traced back to the underlying physical commodity transactions.
Relevant information available within the data lake is integrated into structured Trade Finance workflows.
Users spend materially less time manually reconciling spreadsheets, emails, and reports.
Facilities, limits, loans, utilisation, and available financing capacity can be monitored centrally.
Expected financing requirements and cash movements are easier to anticipate.
Key exceptions are surfaced automatically and assigned to the right owners.
Commercial, operational, invoice, cash-flow, and financing information is easier to reconcile.
AI tools are used daily because they solve real operational problems.
Reporting is faster, more consistent, and more transparent.
The analyst becomes a trusted partner to the Geneva Trade Finance and Finance teams.

Required Qualifications

Experience in one or more of

Finance
Commodity trading operations
Finance / product control
ETRM / CTRM business analysis
Data analytics
Business analysis
Workflow automation
AI Enablement

Strong analytical and problem-solving ability.
Experience working with operational and/or financial data.
Ability to map complex business processes and identify inefficiencies.

Experience with one or more of

SQL
Python
Excel
Power Query
Workflow automation tools

Comfortable working directly with finance and business users.
Ability to work independently in an ambiguous, fast-moving environment.
Strong communication and documentation skills.
Willingness to spend extended periods working alongside the Geneva team if based in London.

Strongly Preferred

Experience in metals, concentrates, mining, or physical commodities.
Familiarity with concentrates-specific concepts such as:
provisional and final pricing,
assays,
payable metal,
treatment/refining charges,
quantity and quality adjustments,
shipment documents,
inventory and title movements.
Experience with ETRM / CTRM or ERP systems.
Experience across trade lifecycle workflows spanning Front Office, Operations, Finance, and Settlements.
Exposure to trade-finance or working-capital processes.
Experience automating reconciliations or exception workflows.
Hands-on use of LLMs, prompt engineering, agentic AI, RAG, or document extraction.
Experience integrating data from APIs, databases, spreadsheets, and documents.

Hartree Partners is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to ensuring that all applicants and employees are treated fairly and are not discriminated against on the grounds of age, disability, gender reassignment, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race (including colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origins), religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation. Recruitment and employment decisions are based on merit and business needs. We will make reasonable adjustments for candidates and employees with disabilities.