Sr. Market Risk Operations Analyst

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Texas, United States of America

Job Family Group:

Finance

Worker Type:

Regular

Posting Start Date:

January 4, 2022

Business unit:

Finance

Experience Level:

Experienced Professionals

Job Description:

Company description

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Position Purpose

Sr. Market Risk Operations Analyst

What’s the role?

This role will work closely with the other risk teams across the Trading and Supply business including a significant Business Operations component, regular discussions with Market Risk, Valuation, Front Office, Finance and Back Office, and be a focal point for forward curve and pricing related queries from across the Shell group.

Key accountabilities and responsibilities of the role are:

The Market Risk Operations group ensures Market Risk processes and controls are run accurately, reliably, and right first time.

The Market Risk Operations group is also responsible for maintaining observable valuation inputs e.g. exchange prices, broker quotes, derivable volatilities and correlations to risk calculations.

Understand physical spot price assessments and the construction of forward curves.

Working with Market Risk analysts and traders to come up with the best forward curves possible, and to implement them in the trading systems alongside the Business Operations team.

Be an end-to-end deal expert understanding risk at all parts during the life of a deal interacting with the functional experts to help identify and suggest remediation to those risks.

Implement Shell best practices in commodity trading risk management.

Ensure that Risk fulfils its role as an independent “check and balance” function and is viewed as such by other parts of the organization.

Regularly review assumptions and estimates in our valuation curves to ensure that they are suitable and up to date.

Manage user testing of systems functionality and enhancements while providing feedback to key stakeholders.

Must be a systems and data expert ensuring that knowledge around market risk reference data & forward curve construction is well documented for the benefit of the wider Market Risk team.

Ensure process excellence, identifying bottlenecks in Risk processes. Implementing error-checking as a natural part of all processes so output is ‘Right First Time’.

Support digitalization and automation to smooth the flow of information across the business and to remove manual tasks.

Map and document processes, clarify accountabilities, and simplify interfaces to allow the smooth running of the Risk organization.

Promote a culture of continuous improvement by having the courage to challenge established processes. This includes identifying inefficiencies in local and global operations and opportunities to streamline and automate shared processes and interfaces.

The role works closely with risk analysts in all parts of the risk management department including a significant Business Operations component. The incumbent is tasked with ensuring that the business that they cover is widely understood and that any changes to it or the supporting risk management framework are communicated properly to all stakeholders.

Skills & Requirements

What we need from you -

Must have legal authorization to work in the US on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer.

Candidate must have minimum of seven (7) years working experience within a trading, financial or risk management organization

Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Economics, Mathematics, Science, Engineering or IT, or workplace experience in the energy trading industry.

Candidate must have knowledge of financial, commodity and energy markets, derivative instruments, and hedging.

Has Intermediate to Advanced Excel skills, such as pivot tables, lookups, VBA macros. SQL and Python an advantage, other coding languages can also be useful.

Experience with Endur, DEX or comparable energy trading risk management system.

Also, this is a role for a person who brings diversity of thought, who is not afraid to speak up and who is comfortable challenging senior stakeholders.

Skills Preferred:

The candidate must have the ability to articulate and communicate complex scenarios and ideas in a clear and concise manner while understanding the perspective and experience of others. Ability to challenge sensitive issues constructively while maintaining working relationships.

Team player, good interpersonal skills. Flexible to work with colleagues across numerous time zones with both Market Risk at the Trading Hubs in the Americas, Europe and Asia, but equally the Business Operations center’s in Chennai, Manilla, and Bangalore.

Excellent communication skills - this role will require writing reports and policies and presenting analysis and insights to senior stakeholders. Due to the global nature of the business the role requires communicating using different methods, in a variety of formats, to people in many countries.

Reliable, dependable, and disciplined. Excellent attention to detail, methodical, organized. A trusted partner of the business

Resilient when working under pressure, with the ability to prioritize tasks to meet key deadlines.

Good judgement to provide advice, question discrepancies, escalate issues

Continuous improvement mindset: utilizing tools to streamline and automate work to boost efficiency

Scientific mindset: identify, investigate, analyze, research, discuss, record, and resolve issues

Learner mindset; innovative and creative, excellent problem-solving capabilities

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