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
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