Job Description
Company Description
We are the world’s largest independent energy and commodities trading company. Founded in Rotterdam in 1966, we operate from over 40 offices worldwide, moving energy across every continent through our physical trading business. We use our expertise and logistical networks to distribute crude oil, refined products, gas, electricity, metals, renewables, biofuels and carbon certificates around the world efficiently and responsibly. With $343 billion in revenues in 2025 and 8 million barrels of crude oil and products traded every day, we seek to add value across the energy supply chain, including deploying our scale and market understanding to help facilitate the energy transition. To date, we have committed over $2.5 billion to sustainable investments and have 4GW of renewable generation capacity currently invested or under construction.
Our people are our business. Our flat, meritocratic structure drives an entrepreneurial culture that has been carefully preserved as we have grown. Talent is precious to us and we create an environment in which individuals can reach their full potential, unhindered by hierarchy. Our team comprises more than 65 nationalities and we are committed to developing and sustaining a diverse work force.
Learn more about us here.
Job Description
This role is ideal for a passionate, entrepreneurially minded developer who thrives on ownership, impact, and a dynamic environment. You will have end-to-end ownership of the solutions you deliver, from the first conversation with the business to final rollout and beyond. You will be trusted to shape the best approach to delivering against business priorities and timelines, in a flat, team-oriented environment that values ideas and individual contributions.
Your role
We have developed our own Commodity Trading Risk Management (CTRM) system that covers all aspects of our business activities across the globe: from trade entry through middle-office, with P&L reporting and price risk management, down to invoicing – for every commodity we trade, including electricity, renewables, gas, crude oil, refined products, biofuels, or carbon certificates. We place our CTRM at the heart of how the company operates; it is used daily by teams across trading, middle office, finance and operations. Our most critical systems are built in-house by teams like ours, helping orchestrate global energy flows.
Within the CTRM, the PnL team owns one of the most critical processes in the firm: the systems you build will be central to how we understand and report financial performance. You will work hand-in-hand with trading desks, finance directors and senior management on processes that directly drive business decisions.
As a member of the CTRM PnL team, located in Geneva, Switzerland, you will own projects related to P&L computation, reporting, P&L explain, as well as accounting and year-end close processes.
What defines success in this role:
- Technical excellence: design and implement clean, well-documented and extensible features. Write maintainable, high-performance code.
- Ownership: work with a high degree of autonomy and take responsibility for the full lifecycle of your deliverables: requirements, design, development, testing, rollout, training and ongoing support.
- Business partnership: engage directly with trading desks, finance and senior management to identify and prioritise requirements. There is no intermediary: you are both the business analyst and the developer. You go beyond what users explicitly ask for: understanding the context, spotting pain points they may not articulate directly, and building what truly serves the business.
- Teamwork: end-to-end ownership does not mean working alone. Your work integrates into a much larger system, and you stay closely connected with other development teams. You will become a trusted partner to colleagues and stakeholders across the firm.
As we work as one united team covering PnL, Risk, VAR and options, the projects you will be involved in may be as diverse as:
- Implementing PnL explain frameworks that attribute daily movements to their market and position drivers
- Modelling cash-for-product loan repayments in our Finance P&L
- Building a valuation engine for complex options that we trade
- Running a systems integration with a company we have acquired
For large projects, you may travel to other Vitol main offices – Houston, Singapore, London, Rotterdam – to ensure smooth integration and adoption on the ground.
Our technology
Our core technologies, PL/SQL and Oracle Forms Builder, form the foundation of our core trading platform and have been central to Vitol’s success story. When you join, you will work with these established technologies to quickly get up to speed with our data model and business logic, and start adding value from day one. As our platform continues to evolve, we are progressively embracing a more contemporary technology stack, creating opportunities for those interested to be part of shaping what comes next.
Qualifications
Required
- University degree in Computer Science, Financial Engineering, or an equivalent field
- At least 3 years’ experience as a software engineer, ideally in a role combining technical and functional responsibilities
- Proven data modelling skills to translate business situations into data structures
- Proficiency in SQL
- Team player with strong entrepreneurial drive and ability to work independently
- Proactive and user-focused “make it work” mentality with a genuine interest in both the functional and technical aspects of each challenge
- Comfortable with a daily release cycle and a fast-paced, results-oriented environment
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, comfortable engaging with non-technical and senior stakeholders
- Full professional proficiency in English, both written and spoken
Nice to have
- Experience with PL/SQL (preferred) or a similar procedural DB programming language (e.g. T-SQL)
- Practical experience with Oracle Forms builder
- Previous experience in the commodities and/or trading industry
- Familiarity with PnL, accounting, or risk concepts
- French is a plus
Additional Information
Our Geneva Office
Our office is located very centrally, 5 minutes from the main train station and 1 minute from the lake. The office has a rooftop lunch area with views over the lake and Alps. We organise regular activities to enable our people to meet colleagues from other teams in an informal setting, and to celebrate special achievements.
Work arrangement:
Office-based with 1 day per week home office
