Risk/Senior Risk Manager

Join us in this role where you’ll be responsible for daily monitoring of compliance and performance, risk partnering with stakeholders, and having a deep understanding of both the proprietary and risk mitigating strategies executed by the traders. You’ll also develop and optimise digital tools, reports, and processes within the team, and foster informal and trusting relationships with our broad base of stakeholders.

Welcome to Market Risk
You’ll be part of of a passionate Trading Risk team in Market Risk where you, together with your colleagues, will be responsible for 1st line risk management of energy trading activities and performance measurement. That includes reporting on energy trading risk and performance, monitoring risk mandate compliance, and logging and reporting on potential mandate breaches. As a key player, you'll engage in effective stakeholder management, collaborating with various departments to ensure alignment and understanding of our business, energy markets, derivatives, trading, and company risk profile.

As a team, we ar curious, bright, and commercially oriented colleagues maintaining a professional yet informal atmosphere that values fun, laughter, and continuous learning through prototypes and knowledge-sharing.

You’ll play an important role in:

• Daily reporting of energy trading and portfolio performance (P&L) and risk metrics, such as VaR and stress, to the business and senior management as part of the teams operational setup

• Carrying out ad-hoc risk partnering and analyses to traders and stakeholders across the business regarding trading activities, performance, market risks, derivatives and VaR

• Developing and optimising digital tools, reports, and processes within the team

• Quality assuring risk and performance measures in daily reports

• Fostering informal and trusting relationships with our broad base of stakeholders.

To succeed in the role, you:

• Have a master’s degree in finance, economics, mathematics, or similar

• Are analytically strong and can communicate complex matters in a simple way

• Have a proactive and systematic approach to your work tasks

• Have a deep knowledge of option theory and its practical applications

• Have excellent IT skills as we work with large data volumes and use tools such as SQL, VBA/Excel, Power BI, and PowerPoint to a great extent

• Embrace working in a dynamic work environment, as Ørsted is currently undergoing significant changes, are a curious team player that values professionalism and fun and master the art of stakeholder management.

Maybe you’ve read the above and can see you have some transferable skills, even though they don’t quite match all the points. If you think you can bring something to the team, we still encourage you to apply.

Shape the future with us
Send your application to us as soon as possible. We’ll be conducting interviews on a continuous basis and reserve the right to take down the advert when we’ve found the right candidate.

As an applicant or employee, you may request reasonable work and position accommodation or adjustments via accommodation@orsted.com.

Please note that for your application to be taken into consideration, you must submit your application via our online career pages and answer the screening questions relevant for your country. We don't take applications or inquiries from external recruiters or agencies into account for this position.

About the job
Application deadline:
09 May 2025

Location:
Gentofte, DK Warsaw, PL

Field of work:
IT and digital

Employment type:
Permanent

Work hours:
Full-time

Workplace:
Hybrid (office and home-working)

Imagine a future with Ørsted

About Ørsted
- We develop, construct, and operate offshore and onshore wind farms, solar energy farms, storage facilities, and bioenergy plants in Europe, Asia, and North America.

- Our vision is to create a world that runs entirely on green energy.

- We’ve been ranked as one of the world’s most sustainable energy companies for the past six years.

- We’re headquartered in Denmark.

- We have over 8,600 employees, working in 15 countries and growing.

An inclusive team
Ørsted wants all employees to have the same opportunities for impact and growth, regardless of age, nationality, disability, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or beliefs. We’re committed to secure an inclusive work environment characterised by a respect for all people so everyone feels free to openly share their input and ideas.