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Senior Market Risk Analyst - Power & GasGunvor • Houston, TX, United States
Senior Market Risk Analyst - Power & Gas

Senior Market Risk Analyst - Power & Gas

Gunvor • Houston, TX, United States
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Senior Market Risk Analyst - Power & Gas

Position: Senior Risk Analyst Gas & Power

Position Purpose & Summary:

The Senior Risk Analyst Gas & Power owns day-to-day market risk monitoring for our gas and power portfolios across the Americas, providing timely analysis, and risk reporting. This is a senior individual contributor role with a clear career path to a manager role as the team grows. The role partners closely with trading desks, middle office, compliance, finance, and ops to ensure disciplined risk-taking, robust controls, and actionable insights.

Main Responsibilities:

  • Market Risk Monitoring & Limits
    • Monitor intraday and end-of-day market exposures (VaR, P&L-attribution, Greeks where applicable) for gas and power portfolios.
    • Enforce and report against trading limits, dealer limits, VaR and stress-test thresholds; escalate breaches and remedial actions.
  • Stress Testing & Scenario Analysis
    • Design and run scenario analyses and stress tests (historical and hypothetical) to assess portfolio resilience under market shocks.
    • Provide forward-looking risk outlooks and identify concentration or liquidity risks.
    • Assess exposure to tail risks, volatility spikes, and dislocations in gas and power markets.
  • Trade Capture & Valuation Oversight
    • Review model inputs (curves, vol surfaces, hubs, heat rates) and raise model or input exceptions.
    • Maintain and enhance valuation and risk models, testing methodologies and validating assumptions against market fundamentals.
  • Reporting & Controls
    • Monitor and enforce trading mandates, VaR limits, position limits, and stress thresholds.
    • Maintain strong control frameworks, audit trails, and policy compliance in line with internal and regulatory requirements.
    • Partner with Compliance, Legal, Credit, and Finance to ensure robust governance and adherence to risk policies.
    • Implement and improve risk processes and automated controls to reduce operational risk.
  • Stakeholder Partnership & Advisory
    • Act as a trusted risk partner to traders and desk headsprovide real-time decision support, trade-level risk assessments and pre-trade checks.
    • Train and mentor junior risk analysts; contribute to hiring and process scaling.

Competencies / Key Skills

  • Strong quantitative and analytical capability with market intuition for gas & power markets.
  • Understanding of extrinsic risk/options.
  • Advanced Excel, VBA and experience with risk systems (e.g., Endur, Allegro, Murex, Calypso, or proprietary systems) and BI tools (Power BI/Tableau) preferred.
  • Solid understanding of VaR, stress testing, P&L attribution, Greeks/option risk, and forward curves/shape dynamics.
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skillsable to translate analysis into clear recommendations.
  • High attention to detail, process orientation, and appreciation for controls and auditability.
  • Ability to work under pressure, prioritize multiple requests, and provide timely outputs for trading hours.

Education

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, or related quantitative field. Advanced degree (MS/MA) or professional risk certification (FRM, PRM) is a plus.

Experience

  • 58+ years' experience in market risk, commodity risk, or trading support in gas/power or broader commodities markets.
  • Direct experience with physical and financial gas/power products, time spreads, fixed-price contracts, storage, and LNG preferred.
  • Proven track record producing risk reporting, P&L attribution and supporting front-office decision making.

Technical Skills

  • Proficient in Excel (advanced modelling), SQL or Python for data pulls/analysis.
  • Familiarity with trading/risk platforms (Endur/Allegro, ETRM systems) and market data feeds.
  • Experience with Workday or HR systems not required but helpful for internal coordination.

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