Senior Market Risk Analyst, Products

Texas, United States of America
Job Family Group:
Finance
Worker Type:
Regular
Posting Start Date:
November 20, 2023
Business unit:
Finance
Experience Level:
Experienced Professionals
Job Description:
What's the role?
The Senior Market Risk Analyst is a member of the Products Market Risk Advisory team and reports to the NA Products Market Risk Manager. The Products Market Risk Team is responsible for understanding the trading markets and strategies employed by the oil products & low-carbon fuels trading businesses of Shell Trading and Supply.
The purpose of the role is to independently identify, measure, and report on the level of risk from new business proposals, material contracts, and trading market conditions in order to advise the commercial teams on mitigation strategies and risk appetite. The role will provide risk assessments and insights to senior management while collaborating with and providing market specific information and advice to others in the global Finance and Risk Management organization.
The role works closely with risk leads for all parts of the risk management spectrum including a significant Business Operations component, regular discussions with Front Office, Finance, Compliance and Back Office, and a focal point for oil products risk related queries from across Shell.
Responsibilities

• Develop and apply fair economic value principles across the products business, coordinating across the global risk managers to ensure consistent application. This includes providing modelling support and challenge with stakeholders on valuation inputs and parameters.
• Ensure that all exposures generated are fully understood and that these exposures and resultant P&L are properly evaluated, validated and analysed prior to any income being reported.
• Provide independent advice and guidance on the level of risk/return in the business and whether this is congruent with the agreed level of risk appetite.
• Identify risks, review model and portfolio assumptions, market inputs, pricing issues, valuation parameters and instrument types.
• Produce ad-hoc analysis to explain P&L or exposure changes to Front Office, assist them with queries and requests for system setup changes.
• Ability to solve real world business problems using quantitative and computational techniques.
• Support digitalization and automation to smooth the flow of information across the business and to remove manual tasks.
• Drive understanding of the design and utilization of methodologies to assess risk/reward of the portfolio, including VaR back-testing, stress testing, scenario analysis, liquidity analysis.
• Understand and explain changes in VaR by breaking down the impact by its underlying drivers and ensure that the VaR accurately reflects the positions taken and volatility of the relevant market.
• Define and advance analytical mindset and behaviours by providing support for training and learning opportunities to analysts to enhance their understanding of trade book strategies, complex deals, trading and risk mandates, and market fundamentals.

What we need from you

• Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-me basis for anyone other than current employer.
• Bachelor's Degree required.
• Minimum five (5) or more years of experience within a trading and risk management organization, including a strong understanding of commodity trading, operations, risk, compliance and mid/back-office business processes, policies, procedures and controls.
• An understanding of the fundamental economics and pricing mechanisms behind the physical assets and flows of oil products, and the trading strategies that relate to them.
• Thorough understanding of financial, commodity and energy markets, derivative instruments, and hedging techniques. Knowledge of options theory, risk of options, and trading strategies.
• Intermediate to Advanced Excel skills; such as pivot tables, lookups, VBA macros.
• Deep experience with working in ETRM systems such as Endur, Right Angle, Openlink etc...
• Knowledge of Visual reporting tools such as PowerBI, Qlikview and Spotfire.
• Good judgement to provide advice, question discrepancies, escalate issues.
• Continuous improvement mindset; utilizing tools to streamline and automate work to boost efficiency.

For regular full-time or regular part-time employees of the Company (participating companies as listed in the Summary Plan Description), insurance coverage options include medical, dental, vision coverage, life Insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs. Employees also participate in a company pension plan and a 401(k) plan. Paid leave includes up to 6 weeks of paid vacation time, up to 11 paid holidays, and parental leave offering 16 weeks of paid leave to birthing mothers, and 8 weeks of paid leave for non-birthing parents. Additionally, employees are eligible for disability leave for up to 52 weeks at 100% or 50% of base pay. Shell also offers other compensation such financial reimbursement for adoption, wellness, education, and personal learning expenses, and some roles are eligible for discretionary long-term incentives. For interns, eligible benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, Business Travel Accident Insurance, and Occupational Accidental Death Benefit programs; participation in a 401(k) plan; and paid leave for up to 11 paid holidays. Additional information on Shell's US benefit programs can be found at https://www.shell.us/careers/about-careers-at-shell/rewards-and-benefits.html
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