Commodity focused Market and Liquidity Risk Manager
The Role
An opportunity has arisen for a market and liquidity risk manager with specific commodity experience to join the London Risk Management team. The successful individual will become responsible for understanding, quantifying, reporting and explaining the market and liquidity risk within the commodities business. This is a key role requiring close communication with the trading desks, Treasury, the risk management team and interaction with senior management.
Candidate Profile
- At least 3 years of specific Commodity based risk experience.
- A similar level of experience of futures and listed/OTC options in the energy and financial markets.
- Capable of working alone or in a small team to build on and improve existing processes, extending our understanding of risk.
Essential attributes
- Solid understanding of commodities markets, particularly base metals and financial futures.
- Strong communication skills and confidence to challenge the trading team, senior business and support management
- Detailed knowledge of at least one CCP, its margining and default fund(s) arrangements
- High degree of numeracy and sound spreadsheet knowledge
Desirable attributes
- Good computer literacy, particularly Excel VBA and Access
- Strong quantitative academic background, eg graduate in maths or science
- Other market risk/asset classes including FX would be beneficial
- Treasury experience
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