Market Risk Manager

at  Centrica

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Centrica Energy is the trading arm of Centrica. We trade power, gas, LNG, and energy attributes and connect producers, suppliers and off takers in the wholesale energy markets - and we provide our clients with the best route-to-market services available to the market today with physical and financial settlement approaches. In short, we call ourselves Energy Movers By Nature.
We’re a total of 850+ colleagues from over 50 different nations, located in 8 different offices around the world. At our London office, where this role is located, you’ll be joining our international office with over 300 dedicated energy specialists.
The Market Risk Manager will play a key role in controlling and reporting risk and continuously developing the function as Centrica Energy grows and transitions to a multi-location trading model. The role will play an important part in the improvement and development of risk measurement methodologies, processes and procedures whilst having close daily interaction with the front office and business units. The role reports into the Head of Market Risk.
This is an exciting opportunity for a talented and experienced Market Risk professional to be part of an organisation that is focused on maximizing profit from trading gas, power and renewables.
The role is based out of our Aalborg office in Denmark. There is also a requirement for occasional international travel to other Centrica Energy offices.

• Lead the market risk oversight of one of the energy trading desks, being responsible for executing market risk management strategies across gas, power and renewables, creating a strong market risk presence and building strong relationship across Centrica Energy trading business
• Manage one or two junior resources, promoting risk discussion on the trading floor, and building best practice within the team
• Maintain and share a strong knowledge of trading portfolios, and keep abreast of developments in the energy markets and the potential impact on risk and portfolios
• Quantitatively analyse new deals and identify embedded risks using simulation based modelling and other methods
• Work with relevant business teams to formulate new business and product frameworks, and integrate changes into the current policies, processes and systems
• Deliver improvements to market risk processes, models and methodologies. Including in the space of VaR, stress testing, assessment of risk adjusted return, etc
• Support the digitisation of Market Risk at Centrica Energy.