What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Risk Analyst position at Optimus - People. Solutions. Delivered.?
A key Optimus client that is one of the largest generators of electricity in America from natural gas and geothermal resources needs a Sr Risk Analyst with Power & Natural Gas experience.
Job Responsibilities
Job Responsibilities
- Support senior staff to develop risk models and reports that accurately capture material risks specific to market/asset/region and trading strategy.
- Independent validation of market valuations for existing portfolio and new deals.
- Assist with ongoing monitoring of portfolio risk with weekly commentary on utilization, new activity, market events and liquidity.
- 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 IT organization to improve the underlying risk system infrastructure (models, calculations, data flows, reports, etc.).
- Bachelor’s Degree in discipline such as business, engineering, or other quantitative discipline with 3 years of risk management experience.
- Energy trade floor experience with natural gas & power (gas is a must)
- Master’s Degree a plus.
- Strong model-building skills; experienced with analytical and data manipulation applications such as Excel, SQL, Visual Basic, R, 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
- Should be able to accept responsibility and work autonomously; able to excel under the pressure of multiple deadlines.
- Team player who is used to diving into issues, brainstorming solutions, and learning new methods and tools to address; results oriented.
