Market Risk Manager, Energy Commodities (Electricity, Natural Gas )

Location : Stamford, CT


Senior Commodities / Market Risk Professional required for Global Commodity Trader " position based in Stamford, Conneticut, USA.

Our client is a market leader in managing the global supply chain of industrial and energy products.They operate over multiple offices across the globe managing a diversified portfolio of essential raw materials, integrating the sourcing, marketing, processing, financing and transportation.

Reporting to the Global CRO the American Market Risk Manager is responsible primarily for providing independent identification, review, analysis and monitoring of the market risks of the Corporate trading desks across their US Energy operations.

Major responsibilities include working closely with traders and trading & management, quantitative, analytics and risk technology you will ensure the completeness and accuracy of the Value at Risk, Stress calculations and timely delivery of a daily oversight report explaining positions and movements in VaR; monitoring trades throughout the day to monitor their impact on positions against limits and look for any unusual activity.

The ideal candidate for this position will be someone who has had at least 5 years commodity trading experience gained within a trading house, energy company or bank and subsequently progressed their career specifically into a Market & Commodity Risk Management role.
Candidate will ideally have had extensive and diverse knowledge in market risk managementof Energy products.   

Applicant will ideally have a good knowledge of North American markets and will understand the risks and work with the trading desks to create monitor and analyse suitable limit structures, methodologies and movements and understand how this will impact the risks held by the desks.

This role is at executive management level and involves managing a small team. Applicants who have had a commercial and/or trading background prior to risk will be particularly well regarded.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelors degree in Maths / Science / Economics/ Finance / Business / Commerce (with quantitative component)Solid product knowledge of a broad range of products especially , electricity and natural gas.

• Experience in Market Risk, Front Office or very strong Middle Office for a trading related business

• Excellent Excel skills incl VBA other programming skills would be an advantage

• Very good communicator ?" evidence of ability to interact and present at all levels

• Attention to detail and strong proven analytical background

Expressions of interest should be forwarded onto nanderson@rmrasiapacific.com quoting job ref rmr666sctna or alternatively call Neil Anderson on +61 425 703 162 for a preliminary confidential discussion.

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