Senior Quantitative Risk Analyst

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Senior QUANT Risk Analyst

Summary of Company

Gunvor Group is one of the world’s largest independent commodities trading houses by turnover, creating logistics solutions that safely and efficiently move physical energy from where it is sourced and stored to where it is demanded most. With strategic investments in energy infrastructure—refineries, pipelines, storage, terminals, mining and upstream—Gunvor further generates sustainable value across the global supply chain for its customers. Founded in 2000, Gunvor reported revenues of $64 billion (USD) on volumes of 184 million MT in 2017.

Gunvor has more than 1,600 employees, of which more than 180 work in the company’s Geneva office. Geneva is one of Gunvor’s fastest growing offices, reflecting the organic growth of the company and its trading and investments. Gunvor also maintains offices in Amsterdam, Beijing, Dubai, Houston, London, Moscow, Nassau, Singapore, Stamford, and Tallinn, with new offices planned in strategically relevant markets.

To support its logistics operations, Gunvor wholly owns Clearlake Shipping, one of the largest charterers of tanker vessels in the world and an operator of dry bulk vessels and cargoes. Since 2003, Clearlake has operated around a high-quality fleet of Tankers, Gas Carriers and dry bulk vessels on a time-charter basis to accommodate Gunvor’s growing needs for ocean transportation across all major ocean routes, in addition to the needs of third-party business.

Overview of Role

The Senior Quant Risk Analyst is a member of the Risk team, reporting to the Regional Head of Market Risk in the US.

He/She is responsible for research and analysis of the US Market Risk team and supports the US office in improving decision making and risk management of the various functions and desks, by delivering high quality reports and other digital tools.

Main Responsibilities

• Actively contribute to monitoring the Market Risk of the US office.
• Communicate effectively to the Regional Head of Market Risk your insights on relevant risks taken by the US office.
• Support improving and automating Market Risk information sharing tools.
• Improve the existing daily procedures for calculating and reporting of the main risk metrics.
• Maintain existing monitoring tools and ensure quality of the data.
• Actively contribute to the monitoring and maintaining of the stress testing and scenarios analysis of major exposures.
• Actively contribute to the development of other risk management tools and reporting (in Python, VBA, Excel and Power BI).
• Liaise closely with Regional Head of Market Risk to understand priorities and goals.
• Liaise closely with IT and other support functions to ensure data quality is maintained or improved when deemed necessary.

Profile/Key Skills

The individual should have the following experience:

• University degree, preferably in Computing, Mathematics, Engineering, Economics or Finance, or equivalent.
• Mastery of analytics tools and technologies.
• Minimum of 5 years in a similar role in the commodity trading business, preferably within a major trading house or an oil major.
• Curious and Proactive.
• Eager to learn and ability to work with limited supervision.
• Rigorous and meticulous.
• Highly numerate.
• Excellent knowledge of Python, good knowledge of Excel/VBA.
• Very good knowledge of Access and SQL Server.
• Strong team spirit.
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken.

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