シニアリスクマネージャー/ Senior Risk Manager

A multinational energy trading organisation is seeking a Senior Manager Risk or Manager Risk. The role will lead risk oversight across asset-backed trading portfolios, strengthen risk governance, develop advanced analytics, and provide strategic challenge to trading activities. This is a hybrid setup role.

Responsibilities:

• Lead daily market risk oversight across power, gas, and emissions portfolios
• Assess and monitor exposures from physical and financial trading activities, including asset-backed optimisation strategies
• Oversee VaR, stress testing, scenario analysis, position limits, drawdown monitoring, and liquidity risk indicators
• Review and challenge trading strategies, hedging activities, and structured transactions
• Evaluate risks associated with generation assets, storage facilities, renewable portfolios, and tolling structures
• Develop and enhance risk frameworks for thermal generation, battery, renewable, and flexibility portfolios
• Partner with asset optimisation and trading teams to support risk-adjusted decision-making
• Escalate material risk issues, market dislocations, and breaches in a timely manner
• Support risk committee governance and prepare management and board-level reporting
• Analyse stress events, P&L attribution, and portfolio performance drivers
• Support model validation and enhancement initiatives for energy risk measurement and asset valuation
• Manage and mentor risk professionals while fostering a strong risk culture
• Build relationships across Trading, Quantitative Analytics, Finance, Operations, Compliance, and IT

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or above in Finance, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related quantitative discipline
• More than 7 years of experience in commodity market risk, trading risk management, or quantitative risk roles within energy trading, utilities, or commodity merchant organisations
• Strong experience in power and gas trading environments with exposure to asset-backed trading and generation optimisation
• Understanding of wholesale electricity markets, gas markets, ancillary services, and energy products
• Experience managing risk associated with thermal generation assets, renewable portfolios, battery storage, or structured energy transactions
• Demonstrated leadership experience managing teams and engaging with senior stakeholders
• Strong understanding of VaR methodologies, stress testing, scenario analysis, energy derivatives, structured products, forward curve dynamics, asset valuation, dispatch economics, Greeks, and optionality in energy markets
• Familiarity with quantitative modelling and optimisation concepts
• Experience with ETRM systems and risk platforms such as Endur, Allegro, Murex, or similar
• Business level English and Japanese

Preferred requirements:

• Advanced degree such as MBA, MSc, or PhD
• Strong Excel, SQL, Python, or data analytics capabilities
• Possess a valid FRM or CFA certification
• Experience in integrated energy trading companies, utilities with proprietary trading operations, LNG and gas trading firms, commodity merchant firms, renewable energy trading and optimisation businesses, or investment banks with energy trading exposure

About the Company:

A global energy trading organisation specialising in the trading and supply of energy commodities across international markets. Employees benefit from career growth, professional development and opportunities within a dynamic, collaborative and internationally connected workplace.

Keywords:

マーケットリスク, コモディティ取引, エネルギー取引, 電力取引, ガス取引, リスク管理, アセットバックトレーディング, VaR, ストレステスト, 求人, 外資系

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