Risk Analyst (1767)

Position Overview:

The Risk Specialist role is a key position within the Market Risk Group.  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 Risk Specialist 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:

• • Deep understanding of Market Risk measures, exposures and profit and loss.  The requisite experience to design and implement risk solutions from first principles without reliance on existing systems
  • Ability to explain business performance from observable market forces and drivers
  • Participate in trading systems design, testing and implementation
  • Strong knowledge of the trading life cycle of a deal from Front, Middle and Back office perspectives
  • 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
  • Build and maintain a set of market prices and curve related to the supported commodity group

Experience and Qualifications Required:

Essential Qualifications:

• • Minimum of five (15) years’ experience in a commercial trading business with experience related to financial and/or risk control
  • 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 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
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited university
  • 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 SAP experience
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Proficiency with DataMart, Tableau or Power BI, and MS PowerPoint

Internal Note:

Grade level is dependent on successful candidates’ experience, qualifications and experience.

NO THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATES ACCEPTED