AddressWhat’s the role?
The Crude Market Risk Manager is a member of the Oil Market Risk team and reports to the Head of Market Risk Oil. The Oil Market Risk Team is responsible for understanding the trading markets and strategies employed by the oil trading business of Shell Trading and Supply.
The Shell trading business is one of the world’s largest independent energy companies, operating in more than 70 countries.
You will be responsible for the following:
- Develop and apply fair economic value principles across the Crude Oil business, coordinating across the global Risk Managers to ensure consistent application. This includes providing modelling support and challenge with stakeholders on valuation inputs and parameters.
- Ensure that all exposures generated are fully understood and that these exposures and resultant P&L are properly evaluated, validated and analysed prior to any income being reported.
- Provide independent advice and guidance on the level of risk/return in the business and whether this is congruent with the agreed level of risk appetite.
- Identify risks, look at model and portfolio assumptions, market inputs, pricing issues, valuation parameters and instrument types.
- Produce ad-hoc analysis to explain P&L or exposure changes to Front Office, assist them with queries and requests for system setup changes.
- Ability to solve real world business problems using quantitative and computational techniques.
- Provide analysis, review and comments on New Business Proposals. Where applicable, provide peer review and challenge to the deal proposals for other businesses. Ensure that the systems and support functions are ready for when trading commences.
- Carry out the review and execution of SOX controls within their organization, and manage communications with auditors after they are completed.
- Work with the Valuation and Quantitative Analytics teams to understand and model embedded physical optionality and how optimization of physical portfolios changes exposures.
- Assist in limit setting and monitoring of the Crude Oil business, but equally play a key role in limit setting globally across the Trading and Supply business. Ensure that all trading activities remain within mandated limits, and escalate appropriately if they are exceeded.
- Ensuring that error-checking is a natural part of all processes so output is ‘Right First Time’.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement across all levels of the organization by having courage to challenge established processes. This includes identifying inefficiencies in local and global operations and opportunities to streamline and automate shared processes and interfaces.
- Support digitalization and automation to smooth the flow of information across the business and to remove manual tasks.
- Drive understanding of the design and utilization of methodologies to assess risk/reward of the portfolio, including VaR back-testing, stress testing, scenario analysis, liquidity analysis.
- Understand and explain changes in VaR by breaking down the impact by its underlying drivers, and ensuring that the VaR accurately reflects the positions taken and volatility of the relevant market.
- Produce content for and occasionally participate in the quarterly Risk Committee meetings with Senior Leadership. Powerpoint skills to produce presentations for Executive level presentations.
- Ensure that Market Risk fulfils its role as an independent “check and balance” function and is viewed as such by other parts of the organization.
- Actively manage resources and processes to optimise the efficient analysis of risk across the portfolio, manage change and prioritise accordingly.
- Define and advance analytical mindset and behaviours by providing support for training and learning opportunities to analysts to enhance their understanding of trade book strategies, complex deals, trading and risk mandates, and market fundamentals.
Competencies
- Capable of being independent from front office; able to objectively analyse and report risks and exposures. Regularly engage in discussion with traders and management about exposure taken and resultant P&L.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, having the self-confidence to challenge traders on deals, valuations, positions, limit mandates.
- Excellent communication skills; the role will require writing reports and policies and presenting analysis and insights to senior stakeholder.
- Team player, with good collaboration and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to articulate and communicate complex scenarios and ideas in a clear and concise manner whilst understanding the perspective and experience of others.
- Ability to coach and mentor team members as well as members of other teams who require knowledge or skills that Risk can provide.
What we need from you
We are keen to hear from risk professionals with substantial experience within a trading and risk management organization, including a strong understanding of trading, operations, risk, compliance and mid/back office business processes, policies, procedures and controls.
We would also like to see the following:
- Degree in Business, Economics, Mathematics, Science, Engineering or IT; or relevant workplace experience in the energy trading industry.
- Experience of leadership in a team or project; leader and adviser in implementing new processes with short-dated hard deadlines.
- Thorough understanding of financial, commodity and energy markets, derivative instruments, and hedging techniques. Knowledge of options theory, risk of options, and trading strategies.
- Candidates shall possess extremely good judgment and shall be able to provide advice, while balancing risk and value on a daily basis.
- 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 prioritise tasks to meet key deadlines.
- Good judgement to provide advice, question discrepancies, escalate issues.
- Learner mindset; innovative and creative, excellent problem-solving capabilities.
- Technology oriented; ability to utilise new technologies to enhance existing controls, processes, and offer detailed trading insights
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