Senior Specialist - Market Risk
Location
India | India
Job description
Job Description
, India
Job Family Group:
Finance
Worker Type:
Regular
Posting Start Date:
November 22, 2023
Business unit:
Finance
Experience Level:
Experienced Professionals
Job Description:
Context for role: It is recognised that the size and complexity of Shell Trading & Supply (T&S) has increased substantially over the past few years. As a result, and also recognising the potential to unlock additional value from enhanced risk management of our trading activities, a strategic decision has been made to make a major, multi-year investment to strengthen the risk management capabilities of the organisation from a people, process, data and systems perspective in both the first and second lines of defence. A new Chief Risk Officer (CRO) was brought into the organisation in March 2020 who is leading the efforts for the second line of defence and added a number of new roles to the organisation to drive these changes forward.
The Market Risk Operations (MRO) team focuses on the delivery of regular and ad hoc PNL, risk metrics and portfolio analytics for the commercial teams, risk management teams and various other stakeholders.
The Senior Specialist role’s primary stakeholders are commercial teams and risk managers located in T&S hubs of London, Houston, Rotterdam, Dubai and Singapore. The role focuses on providing high quality risk reporting and also pre- and post-deal quantitative market risk analytics to support these teams.
Principal Accountabilities:
- Ensure the smooth running of daily risk reporting activities on the Market Risk Reporting (MRR) application.
- Ensure smooth running of various other risk activities such as Deal Entry KPI, M2M live, Bucket Deal reporting, Stress Testing and VAR reporting.
- Collaborate with market risk operation team to ensure process excellence.
- Support Commercial and Risk teams to understand and explain the drivers of the change of the risk metrics such as VaR, FMSE, IP and Stress Tests.
- Conduct analysis and drive enhancement in the reporting activities to accommodate the new business actives or business changes driven by commercial.
- Ensure analytics methods and tools have clear and appropriate documentation.
- Provide leadership and support to Risk colleagues, based in various locations across the globe.
- Contribute as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to reporting and analytics related projects as part of the transformation agenda within Risk, for example on any future analytics requirements.
- Act as a centre of expertise for SME’s across Risk, providing ‘thought leadership’ and helping them to interpret the quantitative drivers for the portfolio and specific transactions booked in T&S.
- Partnership with IT organization for expanding their capabilities to support the Shell Finance
- Interface with stakeholders in Shell IT, Commercial, Risk Transformation, and broader Risk etc
Technical/Experience Requirements for the role:
- Proficiency with SQL, ALTERYX, Python or other programming languages is desirable.
- Prior quantitative risk analytics experience desirable, with a deep understanding of at least one commodity market in which T&S operates (e.g. Gas, Power, Emissions, LNG or Oil) and the quantitative risk methods commonly used, including how to apply them and where a simpler approximation might be suitable.
- Solid understanding of the calculation algorithm of Value at Risk using different methodology such as parametric method and Monte Carlo Simulation.
- Good understanding of the sensitivities of deal price such as different greeks and the impact of different greek;
- Be proficient in using SQL query to retrieve data, reading data, and interpreting it.
- Be familiar with using at least one popular Energy Trading Risk Management system such as Endur to discover the market prices and check deal structure.
- Exposure to the types of quantitative and data challenges faced in a complex trading environment with multiple ETRM’s and other data sources.
- Strong communications skills (both written and verbal), including an ability to concisely explain complex concepts to non-specialist stakeholders in terms of intent and application.
- Excellent attention to detail, methodical, organized.
- Resilient when working under pressure, with the ability to prioritise tasks to meet deadlines and exercise good judgement when providing advice, questioning discrepancies and escalating issues.
- Learner mindset: innovative and creative, excellent critical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
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