QUALITY & RISK OFFICER – LONDON recruitment

Platts, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, is a leading global provider of energy and metals information. With nearly a century of business experience, Platts serves customers across more than 150 countries. From 14 offices worldwide, we serve the oil, natural gas, electricity, nuclear power, coal, petrochemical and metals markets. Platts' real time news, pricing, analytical services, and conferences help markets operate with transparency and efficiency. Traders, risk managers, analysts, and industry leaders depend upon Platts to help them make better trading and investment decisions.

We are now looking for a Quality and Risk office for our office in London.

The Quality and Risk Officer reports to the President of Platts and is responsible to assure that the company's governance of risk, quality and operations compliance are performed to maximize the company's enterprise value. The QRO will provide a risk framework and regular risk assessment to the business leadership, allowing company resources to be applied to remedy any key risk items. The QRO also works with the heads of relevant departments to address key business issues, and to facilitate challenging and creative decisions to help guide Platts as it develops its product offerings and scales its business.

Key responsibilities:

Risk Assessments: The QRO will conduct regular reviews and provide regular feedback to the Platts leadership team on the company's current risk profile, and advice on steps to remediate. Key accountabilities will include:

Monitoring of Controls Testing of Policy Compliance: The QRO will put in place and operate a controls regime that reviews compliance and adherence to policies and methodologies:

Quality in Methodology Development and Application: The QRO will work to assure that methodologies are reviewed for relevance to market dynamics and price assessments/operations of the Market on Close process and other price-discovery activities are accomplished consistent with expectations deriving from methodology and procedures Dispute/Issue Resolution:

Business Controls / Improvements: The QRO will manage a team that reviews business controls, measures their effectiveness, and provides advice on changes that should be made in order to improve Platts' operational performance:

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