Risk Manager

DRW
Full-time
Houston
Posted on 5 months ago

Job Description

This position will report to the Head of Commodities Risk and be responsible for performing daily risk monitoring of our trading portfolios and assisting in the ongoing development and enhancement of our risk management framework and tools, with a focus on our Energy business.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with trading business to analyze and parameterize their specific risks
  • Define, establish and maintain risk frameworks for various trading strategies
  • Monitor daily trading activity according to established risk limit frameworks and assess risk exposures
  • Communicate risk-related information to Traders/Portfolio Managers
  • Provide risk-related reporting to senior management
  • Help advance robust approaches to risk management, including defining, building and using the necessary tools and reporting
  • Actively research and stay current on market dynamics, risk factors and real-world drivers of portfolio performance and risk

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in a technical or quantitative field
  • Previous risk management experience
  • Power ISO/RTO location market and product familiarity
  • Natural Gas market and product familiarity
  • Experience in risk managing FTR portfolios
  • Strong quantitative background and substantial data analysis experience
  • Experience using tools such as SQL, VBA, Python or R for data analysis and modeling
  • Proactive and able to work independently
  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills
  • Sound judgment and strong analytical skills

Benefits

  • No benefits