🚀 Market Risk Analyst

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)