Training
Aspect Academy
Aspect offers in-depth training courses for AspectCTRM, our commodity trading and risk management solution. The program is designed to help new clients kick start effective adoption of the system and for more advanced users to get the most out of the system. Be sure to send new users to Aspect Academy to get them quickly up to speed and for access to our knowledge base of user guides, FAQs, Webcasts and other training materials.
Students can choose from a varied path of flexible learning options to accommodate convenient, self-paced learning or face-to-face interaction with a certified instructor:
On-Demand
Students can access training material through our online learning portal. This library gives the student access to Webcasts on specific functional areas of the product.
Instructor-Led Training
Classroom training on-site or at one of our offices is executed by a certified instructor. End-of-module exams are available to ensure the student has grasped the content. For clients who have custom developed functionality, bespoke training is also available.
Modules
The modules have been split into several functional areas:
Front Office
- Understand AspectCTRM fundamentals and system navigation
- Customize your profile with personal settings
- Learn how to capture physical deals, understand parcel management and capture paper trades
- Capture deal related and standalone costs. Analyse costs using dedicated reports
- Analyse MtM positions
- Monitor real-time P&L using dedicated reports from price capture to advanced P&L reports
- Track historical P&L snapshots utilising end of day procedures which also produce daily and monthly P&L change results.
- Set up security and manage system administration
Back Office
- Learn about financial control and planning
- Manage receipt and payment of invoices
- Validate and confirm settlement records
- Configure counterparty credit risk
What If
- Learn how to create scenarios to analyse P&L based on different pricing rules
- Set up scenarios to determine if trade is more profitable being bought/sold in a different location
- Create scenarios to change parameters of a single trade to see impact on P&L and exposure
Template Management
- Create templates to support faster physical trade and cost entry for standard contracts
- Manage template accessibility and administration
Bespoke Custom Reports And Basic Scripting
- Learn how to create bespoke reports for exporting to external systems
- Create custom reports for management
- Learn how to use scripting to import data from spread sheets directly into Aspect
Advanced Risk Management
- Configure VaR risk parameters and learn how to manage VaR related reports
- Learn about pricing groups
- Learn how to capture option deals and manage interest rates and volatility surfaces
- Manage option P&L and exposure using dedicated reports
Advanced OLAP
- Learn how to configure views to analyse P&L, Position, Pricing, Greeks, Quantity or any combination of measures
- Bookmark reports for personal or shared access
Trader PnL Report
- Enable traders and deals desk personnel with this dedicated P&L report to discuss trading strategies and P&L movements
- Bookmark reports for personal or shared access
Physical Operations
- Learn how to define physical inventories and mange contract information and rental costs
- Plan receipt and dispatch of product in and out of inventory
- Analyse stock and capacity projections
- Manage inter-tank movements and actualise supply and demand
- Run inventory valuation reports and produce other storage reports
- Create and track shipments
- Create netouts and bookouts
Contact
For more information about these training modules or customized training for your team, please contact Training@aspectenterprise.com or call + 44 020 7632 0170.
