Quantitative Risk Analyst

Search Technology Pvt. Ltd.
London
4 weeks ago
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This is a chance to join a high-impact team. The Commodities Risk Analytics Quantitative Researcher will partner with the risk and investment teams to build trading, risk, and physical commodity models to help grow the Commodities business and build physical trading capabilities.


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  • Formulate and implement models for risk analysis of commodity products and derivatives, such as methodologies for constructing term structures and volatility surfaces.
  • Improve and extend existing risk reporting tools, including risk analysis, P&L attribution, and portfolio construction, with focus on both regular periodic reporting and ad-hoc requests.
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  • Expertise in physical European Gas and Power
  • Strong academic background (masters/doctorate) in quantitative fields such as math, physics, engineering, statistics, economics, or finance.
  • Skilled in valuing and modeling physical commodity assets and structured transactions, such as gas or oil storage, power tolls, transmission, etc.

Interested?

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