Commodities Quant Risk Analyst

Commodities Quant Risk Analyst

London based

Our client trades LNG, gas, power and energy attributes - and connects independent producers, suppliers and corporate off-takers in the wholesale energy markets.

This team provides a risk management capability to support commodity trading activities, origination and asset development. You will provide a high quality, flexible, analysis service within the department. The team carry out quantitative assessments to validate and improve their modelling developments, develop internal risk models, review & assess complex transactions and help the firm maximize value and control risk exposure.

You will play an important part in the work of the Risk Department and make a significant contribution to their capabilities in this area. The role will provide an excellent opportunity to gain experience of a variety of significant business and quantitative issues across different areas. This, together with the opportunity for exposure to senior management, will help to provide an excellent platform for possible longer-term career development within one of the UK's leading energy companies.

Responsibilities:

• Advise upon, and contribute to, ongoing model development for valuation and risk measurement, carrying out reviews and validation of Front Office models to help ensure best practice is followed.
• Directly contribute to the design, construction and implementation of Risk models.
• Undertake high quality assessments of a wide range of potential complex transactions, carrying out modelling and analysis as necessary, advising upon the value and risk-related quantitative issues associated with the proposals and, where necessary, providing constructive challenge to help ensure the proposals are robust.
• Assess and advise on quantitative risk-related aspects of commercial issues as required and facilitate ongoing development of their risk control capability.
• Work effectively with other team members in Risk, with quantitative analysts, traders and originators and with other teams, including members of the asset development teams.
• Communicate the results of analyses clearly, including to senior management, in a way which adds significant value to business decisions.

Requirements:

• Very strong level of educational background within a highly quantitative subject (mathematics, quantitative finance, operational research, science, engineering or similar).
• Good understanding of quantitative finance and related risk issues including derivative principles, option valuation, probability and statistics; coupled with a strong practical, and business focused, approach to modelling, valuation and risk management.
• Ability to review and validate complex models.
• Strong modelling and related programming skills (e.g. including model development experience; exposure to Python or similar and VBA) and the ability to build complex models.
• Understanding of, or a keen interest and desire to learn about, energy markets is essential; experience in a high calibre energy-related trading environment would be highly desirable.
• Ability to communicate complex issues in a clear, understandable manner with the front office quants team, traders, originators, asset developers, finance, Risk and other teams.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines in a trading-related Risk environment.
• High attention to detail in both numerical analysis and written work.
• Strong team working and influencing skills.
• The ability to objectively and constructively challenge proposals for new modelling and transactions, whilst maintaining good working relationships.
• Strong appetite for practical and high-quality problem solving in a fast-moving commercial environment.