A key Optimus client that is one of the largest generators of electricity in America from natural gas and geothermal resources needs a Sr Risk Analyst with Power & Natural Gas experience.

Job Responsibilities

• Support senior staff to develop risk models and reports that accurately capture material risks specific to market/asset/region and trading strategy.
• Independent validation of market valuations for existing portfolio and new deals.
• Assist with ongoing monitoring of portfolio risk with weekly commentary on utilization, new activity, market events and liquidity.
• Adherence to risk management policies with focus on maintaining effective controls for trading and business processes.
• Support of compliance and audit activities.
• Interact with traders, originators, accounting staff, and management to understand and answer questions about portfolio positions, changes, and risk factors.
• Collaborate with IT organization to improve the underlying risk system infrastructure (models, calculations, data flows, reports, etc.).

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in discipline such as business, engineering, or other quantitative discipline with 3+ years of risk management experience.
• Energy trade floor experience with natural gas & power (gas is a must)
• Master’s Degree a plus.

Knowledge base should cover a significant subset of the following topics:

• Strong model-building skills; experienced with analytical and data manipulation applications such as Excel, SQL, Visual Basic, R, and other programming languages preferred.
• Analytical and quantitative skills (preferably with coursework in risk management and option pricing)
• Ability to analyze large volumes of data and present results in a clear, concise written and oral form
• Should be able to accept responsibility and work autonomously; able to excel under the pressure of multiple deadlines.
• Team player who is used to diving into issues, brainstorming solutions, and learning new methods and tools to address; results oriented.

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