Sr. Technical Risk Analyst

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This role sits within the Global Risk Management group (GRM) which supports and reports directly to the AES Global Chief Risk Officer. GRM has two primary objectives. First it ensures that robust controls are in place to validate that material risks are being managed in accordance with executive directives. Second it equips the executive team with highquality insight into the uncertainty surrounding forwardlooking earnings and cashflow estimates including key drivers and potential mitigation strategies.

This role reports to the Director of Global Risk & Analytics within GRM who is accountable for delivering on the second objective and supporting the broader organization in achieving the first in partnership with risk management teams embedded in AESs portfolio of business units (Local Risk Teams).

The technical-facing Senior Risk Analyst is a key resource on this team contributing to the successful delivery of business-as-usual responsibilities; maintaining positive relationships with local teams; developing technical knowledge documentation modeling and validation for the firms most complex positions; and bridging the knowledge gap between market expertise and technical capabilities required to continue building out AESs proprietary risk analytics platform.

This is an exciting role with a significant opportunity to make an impact!

Primary Responsibilities:

• Support GRM business-as-usual analysis and reporting activities aimed at estimating monitoring analyzing explaining and deriving insights from changes in uncertainty around forward-looking earnings and cash flow forecasts.

• Lead or assist in requirements gathering design development quality control deployment support documentation and training to continue building and improving our proprietary risk analytics platform.

• Lead or assist in designing prototyping and validating SQL and / or python-based models for valuing positions based on changing inputs and for visualizing the results.

• Lead or assist in automating the prototypes described above and integrating them into our global analytics platform where it will contribute to an improved estimation of and insight into uncertainty surrounding forwardlooking earnings and cashflow estimates used by our executive leadership team to make high-value decisions.

• Ensure all modifications to the proprietary platform follow defined version control and change-management protocols including proper documentation notification to end-users and training.

• Support GRM efforts to improve efficiency in delivering on its primary objectives as outlined above.

• Assist in responding to ad-hoc requests for information analysis or explanations related to GRM responsibilities or as requested by the CRO.

• Support the development and maintenance of data quality checks reconciliations and validation processes associated with automated risk analytics.

Requirements

Need to Have:

• Houston-based

• 3 years of relevant industry experience.

• Degree in a technical and / or quantitative field (MIS Computer Science Data Analytics Quantitative Finance or similar)

• Demonstrated expertise in the design build validation and support of data pipelines / automated workflows data products analytical products reporting products and quality control products using Python SQL and Power BI.

• Demonstrated expertise in building re-usable tools using excel/VBA and either SQL or Python and developing data visualizations for the inputs and outputs for those tools.

• Demonstrated expertise in the design and implementation of automated processes around the re-usable tools described above (assume Excel / VBA or Webpage for user interface SQL for data acquisition VBA or Python for process automation Excel Power BI or Webpage for presentation layer).

• Familiarity with spot and forward power markets fundamental drivers of changes in expected forward-looking earnings and cash-flows for portfolios comprised of thermal and renewable generation assets structured transactions and standard hedging products.

• Familiarity with risk management concepts including valuation delta/gamma position definitions uncertainty vs risk and how to operationalize those via mathematical models statistics percentile analysis risk simulation and metric calculations specifically for At-Risk type risk metrics.

• Experience working with market generation asset and ETRM position data.

• Demonstrated ability to balance between individual vs collaborative problem-solving based on deliverable requirements.

• Individual approach for tracking and managing competing tasks proactively clarifying priorities asking questions communicating issues or delays and managing upward expectations to deliver results that meet or exceed expectations in terms of quality and timeliness.

• Experience supporting and troubleshooting production analytical models and data pipelines.

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with working in Google Cloud Services / Big Query

• Allegro-Specific ETRM experience

• Experience working with ZEMA / Morningstar

• Experience building and maintaining Web-based applications

• Bi-lingual (English / Spanish)