Senior Market Risk Analyst / Manager

Senior Market Risk Analyst / Market Risk Manager
Commodities (Oil and LNG)
London (or Dubai)

Cititec are working with a global commodities firm who are looking for a Senior Market Risk Analyst to join their team. You will play a key role in overseeing risk management across trading desks, with a focus on crude and refined products, while driving the development and enhancement of our market risk framework and capabilities.

Responsibilites

• Provide market risk coverage for a commodities trading desk, acting as a trusted partner to traders and providing effective challenge where required.
• Monitor and analyse portfolio risk, valuations, P&L, and key market risk drivers.
• Develop a strong understanding of trading strategies, exposures, and portfolio performance.
• Support and enhance risk reporting, analytics, and infrastructure within a lean team environment.
• Debug, maintain, and improve Python-based tools and reporting frameworks.
• Work closely with traders, quants, and technology teams to ensure robust risk management and infrastructure.
• Contribute to the ongoing development and optimisation of risk processes and systems.

Requirements

• Prior market risk experience within a commodities or energy trading environment.
• Strong understanding of front office trading, risk, and quantitative concepts, including option valuation, mark to market methodologies, and portfolio valuation.
• Ability to provide independent coverage of a trading desk and confidently challenge trading activity and risk exposures.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, with the ability to understand, support, and improve risk infrastructure and reporting tools.
• Comfortable engaging with highly technical quantitative stakeholders and discussing technical solutions in detail.
• Strong commodity market knowledge, ideally within crude oil, refined products, LNG, or related energy markets.
• Analytical and problem solving mindset, with the ability to bridge trading, risk, and technology functions.
• Quantitative, mathematical, or other highly technical academic background is advantageous.