Senior Market Risk Analyst

Senior Market Risk Analyst

Commodities Trading House

London, UK or Dubai, UAE

Cititec is partnered with a commodities trading house looking for a Senior Market Risk Analyst to join their Market Risk team. This is a technical role where you will oversee risk management across trading desks, with a focus on Crude, refined products, and LNG, while driving development and enhancement of market risk frameworks and capabilities.

Responsibilities:

1. Lead market risk coverage for trading desks, ensuring robust risk oversight and challenge.
2. Drive development of analytical tools and models to improve risk transparency and decision-making.
3. Own and enhance risk methodologies and frameworks, including VaR, stress testing, scenario analysis, and limit structures.
4. Provide independent risk challenge to trading strategies, positions, and new deal structures.
5. Lead key market risk initiatives, including data quality, liquidity assessment, valuation governance, and model validation.
6. Partner closely with Front Office, Middle Office, and IT to enhance systems, automation, and ETRM usage.
7. Contribute to strategic risk discussions, including portfolio optimization, capital allocation, and risk appetite definition.

1. Requirements:
2. MSc or higher in a quantitative discipline (Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, Financial Engineering, or similar).
3. Experience in market risk within commodity trading, ideally with strong exposure to crude and refined products, or gas and LNG.
4. Deep understanding of market risk metrics (VaR, stress testing, sensitivities, Greeks)
5. Strong grasp of P&L drivers, valuation, and risk decomposition
6. Experience with ETRM systems
7. Strong in Python, SQL, PowerBI.