Sr. Analyst - Market Risk (1096)

Aramco Trading Americas

Houston, TX - Full Time

OVERVIEW

The Senior Risk Analyst role is a key control position within the Market Risk Group, which resides in the Middle Office.  This role is responsible for independent risk and financial controls and is accountable for ensuring that trading activities are conducted within a robust control framework.  The Senior Risk Analyst works closely with trading, scheduling, finance, and other support functions and is expected to balance independence and a commercial mindset to enable the trading team to carry out its trading mandate and comply with Aramco Trading Americas (ATA) Risk Policy.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Analyze, validate, and publish opening trading positions and exposures.
• Provide accurate, independent, timely, and consistent valuation of trading positions and exposures.  Publish daily P&L results and high-quality commentary of key drivers.
• Ensure the integrity of financial accounts is maintained.
• Work with Commercial and Finance to close the books and prepare monthly performance commentary.
• Liaise with commercial personnel and IT to troubleshoot/resolve discrepancies and deliver operational efficiencies and improvements.
• Establish positive and trusting working relationships with front-to-back stakeholders.
• Support process standardization initiatives
• Record and escalate KRIs and business incidents.
• Perform ETRM system administration.
• Assist with identification, development, testing, and implementation of New Activity Enablement, ETRM system enhancements, continuous Improvement, and/or various other initiatives.

EXPERIENCE & QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED

Essential Qualifications

• Minimum of five (5) years’ experience in a commercial trading business with experience related to financial and/or risk control.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university
• Advanced experience with physical and financial commodity trading activities
• Advanced knowledge of risk concepts (deals pricing, flat price, time/product spread and basis exposures, P&L attribution analysis, DOA, position limits, etc.)
• Strong understanding of trading instruments (physical forwards, futures, swaps, options) and data modeling/flows within ETRMs
• Extensive experience with ETRMs and very proficient with MS Excel
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and time-management skills with the ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills including the ability to interact with all levels of staff and management.
• Self-motivated individual who functions well both independently and in a team environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in an office environment, located in downtown Houston, TX

Preferred Qualifications

• Applied working knowledge of Crude, Fuel Oil, and/or Refined Products markets.
• Previous RightAngle experience
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience with exposure decomposition and how markets are traded and priced.
• Proficiency with Datamarts, Qlik or Power BI, and MS PowerPoint