| Location: |
MO-Saint Louis
Lower Midwest (IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, MO, NE & OH) |
| Salary Range: |
90,000 - 125,000 |
| Total Compensation: |
100,000 - 140,000 |
| Job Description: |
The Senior Risk Specialist will be responsible for supporting overall exposure management and related quantitative analysis to monitor risk levels including day-to-day mark-to-market (MtM) valuation, Value-at-Risk (VaR) calculations, quantifying spread relationships, and performing stress tests and scenario analysis. |
| Education and Certifications/Licenses: |
Bachelors, None, None |
| Mandatory Minimum Qualifications: |
• Strong leadership / management skills. • Graduate level degree in Mathematics, Financial Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Physics or similar quantitative degree • Working proficiency in Mat Lab, R , SQL (preferred) • 4+ years of experience in a commodity trading/merchant function (preferred). |
| Preferred Qualifications: |
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a comfort level in working effectively with people at various organizational levels with strong personalities in a high pressure, deadline driven environment. • Excellent communication skills including the ability to communicate highly technical concepts effectively with senior management both in written reports and oral presentations. • Strong knowledge of the energy and FX markets and various commercial activities including trading, marketing, supply management and asset optimization. • Strong quantitative skills utilizing trading and risk management systems as well as spreadsheet and database programs. • Working knowledge of mathematics and statistics within the quantitative framework underlying valuation and risk measurement of physical and financial derivative instruments (including “at-risk” measures). • Understanding of option valuation techniques related to financial markets and/or energy markets. • Ability to determine and define micro and macro components/implications/issues of proposed transactions, policies, and procedures, and communicates findings in an accurate, decisive manner within the new product approval process. • Strong understanding of an effective control environment specifically including controls related to model development and end-user computing. |
| Benefits: |
strong package
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| Overnight Travel: |
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| Relocation Assistance: |
Yes |
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