Analyst, Risk & Control
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Role Overview
The employer is recruiting a Risk Analyst for a commodities trading company's Middle Office Risk Management function.
The role monitors, analyses, and controls market risk from physical and derivative trading activities.
The position links trading, finance, and management teams through accurate P&L reporting, risk oversight, and market analysis.
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Role Overview
The employer is recruiting a Risk Analyst for a commodities trading company's Middle Office Risk Management function.
The role monitors, analyses, and controls market risk from physical and derivative trading activities.
The position links trading, finance, and management teams through accurate P&L reporting, risk oversight, and market analysis.
Risk Reporting and Analysis
- Produce and validate daily P&L and exposure reports for physical and paper trades.
- Perform P&L attribution and variance analysis across price, volume, basis, timing, and FX impacts.
- Monitor positions and mark-to-market valuations across time horizons and commodity curves.
- Explain market risk drivers, trends, and sensitivities to management.
- Prepare management reports, dashboards, and presentations with actionable insights.
Controls and Reconciliation
- Support scenario testing, stress testing, and hedge performance reviews.
- Ensure accurate trade capture, valuation, and CTRM reconciliation across front, middle, and back office.
- Verify hedges between physical exposures and derivative instruments and investigate discrepancies.
- Enforce exposure and stop-loss limits and escalate breaches.
- Maintain CTRM system, pricing curve, and broader data quality standards.
Market and Audit Support
- Support internal and external audits and improve risk processes and controls.
- Analyse crude oil, refined products, or gas markets and track macroeconomic and fundamental drivers.
- Monitor inventory, supply-demand balance, freight, FX, and other market factors relevant to trading and risk decisions.
Requirements
- Ability to monitor, analyse, and control market risk exposure arising from physical and derivative commodity trading.
- Ability to produce and validate daily trading P&L, exposure reports, attribution, and variance analysis.
- Ability to reconcile trade capture, valuations, hedges, and CTRM data across front, middle, and back office.
- Ability to analyse crude oil, refined products, or gas markets and their macroeconomic and fundamental drivers.
- Ability to support audits, risk controls, scenario testing, stress testing, and hedge performance reviews.
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