# Senior Specialist - Market Risk Operations

**Company**: Shell
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

The Senior Specialist - Market Risk Operations will support the Gas & Power trading business by providing independent market risk measurement, exposure monitoring, P&L analysis, risk reporting, and control framework oversight.

**Responsibilities:**

- Analyse and explain daily P&L movements and key portfolio risk drivers.

- Perform risk analysis using Value at Risk (VaR), stress testing, sensitivity analysis, and other market risk methodologies.

- Monitor trading exposures and limits in accordance with the Trading Control Framework and Manual of Authorities (MOA).

- Provide insightful risk commentary on commodity trading portfolios, particularly Gas and Power.

- Conduct ad hoc data analysis and reporting using trading risk databases and reporting tools.

- Partner with traders, business stakeholders, and technology teams to investigate and resolve risk reporting and application issues.

- Develop and maintain reporting solutions, dashboards, and performance metrics.

- Lead business improvement initiatives and risk-related projects with tight delivery timelines.

- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, SOX controls, Shell Control Framework, and internal policies.

**Requirements:**

- Postgraduate degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Finance, Economics, Science, or a related quantitative discipline.

- Strong understanding of market risk concepts including VaR, stress testing, sensitivity analysis, basis risk, volume risk, and currency risk.

- Knowledge of commodity markets, preferably LNG, Natural Gas, and Power trading.

- Experience working with risk management platforms such as Endur and Nucleus.

- Strong technical and analytical skills with hands-on experience in SQL, Oracle, Power BI, Tableau, Qlik or similar data visualization tools.

- Ability to analyse large datasets and communicate findings effectively to senior stakeholders.

- Strong stakeholder management, problem-solving, and project leadership capabilities.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- FRM or CFA certification.

- Experience supporting trading and risk management functions within commodity markets.

**What we offer:**

- Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.

- Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.

- Work at the forefront of technology, trends, and practices.

- Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.

- Achieve your balance in a values-led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.

- Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world.

## Skills

### Required
- Statistics
- Mathematics
- Finance
- Economics
- SQL
- Oracle
- Power BI
- Tableau
- Qlik

### Nice to have
- FRM
- CFA

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