Job Title:
Senior Market Risk Analyst - Power & Gas
Contract Type:
Permanent
Time Type:
Full time
Job Description:
Position: Senior Risk Analyst — Gas & Power
Position Purpose & Summary:
The Senior Risk Analyst — Gas & Power owns day‑to‑day market risk monitoring for our gas and power portfolios across the Americas, providing timely analysis, and risk reporting. This is a senior individual contributor role with clear career path to a manager role as the team grows. The role partners closely with trading desks, middle office, compliance, finance, and ops to ensure disciplined risk-taking, robust controls, and actionable insights.
Main Responsibilities:
- Market Risk Monitoring & Limits
- Monitor intraday and end‑of‑day market exposures (VaR, P&L-attribution, Greeks where applicable) for gas and power portfolios.
- Enforce and report against trading limits, dealer limits, VaR and stress-test thresholds; escalate breaches and remedial actions.
- Stress Testing & Scenario Analysis
- Design and run scenario analyses and stress tests (historical and hypothetical) to assess portfolio resilience under market shocks.
- Provide forward-looking risk outlooks and identify concentration or liquidity risks.
- Assess exposure to tail risks, volatility spikes, and dislocations in gas and power markets.
- Trade Capture & Valuation Oversight
- Review model inputs (curves, vol surfaces, hubs, heat rates) and raise model or input exceptions.
- Maintain and enhance valuation and risk models, testing methodologies and validating assumptions against market fundamentals.
- Reporting & Controls
- Monitor and enforce trading mandates, VaR limits, position limits, and stress thresholds.
- Maintain strong control frameworks, audit trails, and policy compliance in line with internal and regulatory requirements.
- Partner with Compliance, Legal, Credit, and Finance to ensure robust governance and adherence to risk policies.
- Implement and improve risk processes and automated controls to reduce operational risk.
- Stakeholder Partnership & Advisory
- Act as a trusted risk partner to traders and desk heads—provide real-time decision support, trade-level risk assessments and pre‑trade checks.
