Jr Risk Analyst-Power & Natural Gas
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Job Location:
Houston, MS - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
11 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
A very large US power generation company needs a Jr Power/Natural Gas Risk Analyst to support their Houston trade floor.
Qualified candidates please send your resume to your Optimus recruiter or me at
Job Responsibilities
Support senior staff to develop/maintain risk models and reports that accurately capture material risks specific to market/asset/region and trading strategy.
- Produce and analyze daily P&L conduct portfolio valuation and perform detailed position analysis to assess risk exposures sensitivities and performance attribution
- Adherence to risk management policies with focus on maintaining effective controls for trading and business processes.
- Support of compliance and audit activities.
- Interact with traders originators accounting staff and management to understand and answer questions about portfolio positions changes and risk factors.
- Collaborate with I.T. organization to improve the underlying risk system infrastructure (models calculations data flows reports etc.).
Job Requirements
- Bachelors Degree in a discipline such as business engineering or other quantitative discipline with 1-3 years of industry experience preferably with power/natural gas.
- Experience within a power generation entity is preferred.
- Possess a basic understanding of power generation fundamentals wholesale electricity market structures and physical and financial power trading mechanisms.
- Knowledge base should cover a significant subset of the following topics:
- Model-building skills; experienced with analytical and data manipulation applications such as Excel SQL Visual Basic Python and other programming languages preferred.
- Analytical and quantitative skills (preferably with coursework in risk management and option pricing)
- Ability to analyze large volumes of data and present results in a clear concise written and oral form
- High sense of responsibility and ability to work autonomously; able to excel under the pressure of multiple deadlines.
- Ability to automate routine tasks to create efficiencies in daily processes.
- Naturally curious team player who is used to diving into issues brainstorming solutions and learning new methods and tools to address; results oriented.
- Willingness to be in office daily working extended hours when necessary
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Required Experience:
Junior IC
Key Skills
- ISO 27001
- Microsoft Access
- Risk Management
- Financial Services
- PCI
- Risk Analysis
- Analysis Skills
- COBIT
- NIST Standards
- SOX
- Information Security
- Data Analysis Skills
