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ExxonMobil

Produces oil, gas, fuels and chemical materials

Trading Market Risk Advisor Power

Risk ManagementUpdated on Nov 13
Full-timeLondon, UKIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Hold a bachelor's degree or equivalent in Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics, or another quantitative field.
  • Have significant work experience in energy trading, financial risk management, or energy risk management.
  • Have strong analytical skills and knowledge of financial instruments.
  • Have a strong understanding of decision analysis techniques, commercial acumen, statistical modelling, and modelling issues involving risk and uncertainty.
  • Have a strong understanding of financial analysis and its application to energy transacting.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor and manage risk associated with trading activities, providing risk analysis for global and regional activities alongside commercial traders.
  • Advise daily on trading profit and loss, exposures, Value-at-Risk, mark-to-market accounting, and limit monitoring.
  • Deliver daily analysis and reporting of trading positions, exposures, Trading Cash Management, and risk-limit utilization; apply market and commodity analysis to identify anomalies and inform trading strategies and risk mitigation.
  • Oversee exposure risk daily through position tracking and analysis; identify and resolve trade-booking discrepancies, data-integrity issues, and abnormal exposure variations.
  • Provide traders with timely risk alerts and recommendations, including Trade Money Management and hedging-option input.
  • Assess and mitigate exposures in over-the-counter commodity swaps and options using scenario analysis, stress testing, and valuation methodologies.
  • Refine risk analytics, including Value-at-Risk, stress testing, and scenario analysis, to improve portfolio transparency and decision-making.
  • Attest and recommend liquid and illiquid curve methodology against established principles, using energy trading and risk management systems and analytical tools to deliver risk assessments.
  • Manage the market-risk lifecycle, from trade capture and exposure modelling through risk reporting and limit governance, and resolve issues across systems and stakeholders.
  • Evaluate complex commodity transactions by calculating Day 1 reserves and other valuation adjustments in alignment with accounting and regulatory standards.
  • Manage liquid and illiquid curve building and validation to support mark-to-market principles.
  • Provide independent oversight and challenge trading decisions when risk exposures are unreasonable or misaligned with the company's risk appetite.
  • Deliver strategic market-risk insights to trading leadership; mentor junior analysts and foster analytical excellence across the risk organization.
  • Assess new business opportunities by reviewing transaction terms, model assumptions, valuation methodologies, and expected results.
  • Review hedging plans, support development of trading limits, and ensure transactions and associated hedges can be valued and reported by the risk-management system of record.
  • Strengthen market-risk governance by enhancing control frameworks, refining risk-reporting processes, and aligning infrastructure with regulatory standards and business objectives.
  • Build expertise in evolving market and commodity risk-management techniques and stay current with industry developments.

Desired Qualifications

  • An advanced degree, such as a master's, MBA, or Ph.D., in Energy or Financial Risk Management is preferred.
  • Attention to detail, strong process execution, and a results-oriented approach.
  • A desire to work in a fast-paced, diverse, and inclusive environment.

About the Company

ExxonMobil

Produces oil, gas, fuels and chemical materials

ExxonMobil produces oil and natural gas and manufactures fuels, lubricants, and chemicals for transport operators, industrial customers, and consumers around the world. Its businesses span resource exploration and production, refineries that turn crude oil into fuels, and plants that make plastics and other chemical materials. The company sells products through wholesale supply agreements and the Exxon, Esso, and Mobil brands, including motor oils for vehicles and machinery. It also sells services that capture, transport, and store industrial carbon dioxide underground. The merged company formed in 1999 from Exxon and Mobil, with roots in earlier oil businesses, and is headquartered in Spring, Texas.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Spring, TX
Founded
1999

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