Risk Analyst

Job Description & Requirements

Core responsibilities

• Highlighting key credit risk issues
• Responsibilities cover credit analysis, customers credit due diligence, limit setting, exposure monitoring and reporting;
• Reconciliation and managing of paper and physical transactions;
• Validating forward curves;
• Monitoring and analyzing all paper and physical exposures are accurately marked-to-market;
• Calculation of VAR of the exposures;
• Preparation of open positions, P&L, and VAR reports;
• Proactively interact with customers, brokers, and clearing agents.
• Maintain Trading Management System.

Job requirements

• Bachelor's degree with at least 1-3 years of relevant working for a commodity trading house or bank within the risk/mid-office team is preferred. Fresh Graduates with a major in Financial, Data Analysis, Mathematics, or related fields are welcome to apply.
• Experience in market risk assessment is essential, while experience in the oil trading industry is preferred.
• Knowledge of VAR calculation model;
• Practical experience in using VBA with excel to develop the VAR model.
• Experienced in programming, such as MS EXCEL/VBA, MS Access/SQL, SAS and etc.
• Excellent written & verbal skills in both English and Mandarin (to liaise with Mandarin speaking associates & counterparts);
• Good communication skills and teamwork skills.