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