Our client is a very successful international Energy Trading company with access to all key markets worldwide.
This role offers an excellent opportunity to develop skills and responsibility in a growing and successful commodity trading business with a global Market Risk team, offering significant exposure to senior stakeholders and complex, cross-commodity risk issues. The successful candidate will support the teams with adding analytical depth, supporting risk model development, and improving risk reporting processes.
KEY ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
* Responsible for preparing daily, weekly and monthly market risk reports, including VaR, options and stress testing
* Key role in quantitative analysis of the risk profile of the company's portfolio across commodities and products
* Provide ad-hoc analysis as directed by the manager, generally contributing to the activities of the Market Risk and Middle Office functions
* Support digitalization and automation to smooth the flow of information across the business and to remove manual tasks. Provide support within the risk team for IT systems development and testing
* Promote a culture of continuous improvement by having the courage to challenge established processes. This includes identifying inefficiencies in operations and opportunities to streamline and automate shared processes and interfaces
* Provide support within the market risk team for the development and validation of market risk models
* Ability to work effectively as part of a global, hybrid working team
KEY QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:
* Possess a degree in a relative Quantitative discipline
* 2 to 4 years' experience in energy risk management at an energy trading company or investment bank
* Good knowledge of derivatives products, including options
* Good knowledge of energy risk metrics/models essential
* Knowledge of energy markets (preferably Gas and LNG)
* Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office products, including Excel, VBA, Power BI, PowerPoint and SQL, other skills such as Python will be useful. Knowledge of Allegro / FEA /Topez is desirable.
* Excellent quantitative analytical skills.
* Strong focus on the accuracy of information.
* Strong communications skills, ability to leverage relationships to influence without authority.
* Proactive, with the ability to thrive in a team environment under often disparate and conflicting pressures.
* Integrity, attention to detail, and high standards of accuracy.
Based: London | Hybrid (3 days in the office per week)