Risk Manager
In this position, you'll help build a top‑tier commodities franchise by delivering a clear, comprehensive perspective on market exposures across the business. Working closely with trading teams, you will challenge assumptions, provide insight, and contribute to the design of scalable risk capabilities as the organization broadens its presence in physical and financial energy markets.
Key Responsibilities
- Evaluate trading strategies and risk-taking behavior by applying strong market knowledge and understanding macroeconomic influences.
- Design, enhance, and implement risk methodologies and infrastructure, including developing tools and Python-based analytics for the risk library.
- Share commodity-specific insights with colleagues across the broader risk organization while incorporating their perspectives into commodity oversight.
- Present risk exposures and emerging issues to senior leadership with clarity, balance, and precision.
- Take an actively involved, hands-on approach to all aspects of commodity risk activities.
- Support the onboarding of new European power and gas products, creating robust risk frameworks for physical assets, balancing markets, and intraday operations.
Key Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in commodity risk, trading, or quantitative functions, with a strong focus on physical European gas and power markets.
- Deep familiarity with physical power and gas structures such as storage, swing contracts, transmission capacity, tolling, and related asset types.
- Understanding of European intraday markets, balancing mechanisms, and high-frequency power and gas trading.
- Advanced proficiency in Python, SQL, and Excel, including numerical and visualization libraries (e.g., pandas, numpy).
- Solid command of risk and performance concepts, including VaR techniques and stress testing frameworks.
- Strong quantitative academic background (e.g., physics, engineering, mathematics, statistics, economics, finance).
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