SENIOR RISK ANALYST recruitment

Principal Accountabilities:

• Prepare, review and summarise risk reports on the portfolios

• Act as a strong sparring partner with FO and management by demonstrating and understanding market developments and risk metrics displayed by the portfolios

• Proactively investigate, propose and develop new risk assessment techniques for application within the company

• Enhance team performance by mentorship and coaching different team members and leveraging risk and industry knowledge

• Analyse structured trading and option strategies to leverage the optimisation of optionality

Knowledge and Skills:

• A graduate with 3-6 years of solid portfolio and risk analysis  experience gained in the energy sector

• Specific energy commodity understanding and detailed knowledge of power and gas markets

• Thorough understanding of dynamics of drivers and perceive and identify trends

• Detailed knowledge of VBA programming, Excel, Access, Matlab, SQL

• Understand the complexities of options pricing in particular around asset modelling, around stochastic processes, Monte Carlo simulation and VaR; propose adequate stress testing of exposures