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EDF Energy is a British integrated energy company with operations spanning electricity generation and the sale of natural gas and electricity to homes and businesses throughout the United Kingdom.
(more about EDF Energy)Market Risk Senior Analyst
Career Area:
Finance, Trading & Risk
Market Risk Senior Analyst
Contract type: Permanent
Working hours: Full-time
Location: We’ll support you to work flexibly from home (providing a suite of IT equipment), whilst coming together on site to offer face to face support and collaboration.
Closing date: Wednesday 12th April
Salary: Negotiable depending on experience
Join EDF as a Market Risk Senior Analyst and support the design, implementation and development of EDF (UK) market risk control framework.
You will be providing expert market risk analysis and reporting, in support of and in challenge to commercial decision making, promoting clarity of understanding of risks and full transparency, while ensuring commercial teams adhere to the approved risk mandate and established control framework.
The opportunity…
As a Market Risk Senior Analyst, you will be providing accurate and insightful market risk analysis and reporting to control the activities of the commercial business teams efficiently and effectively, including trading functions and Customers Sales and Marketing teams. You will be identifying breaches relating to the market risk control framework and contribute to their resolution through investigation and reporting.
A key part of this role is to manage EDF Energy’s relationship with EDF Group’s second level risk control department. To also lead the process for updating the EDF (UK) risk mandate, ensuring that it remains fit for purpose and consistent with corporate policy and that it is understood by key stakeholders
Own and develop market risk methodologies to ensure senior management has the appropriate degree of understanding to guide business decisions and ensure consistency with the EDF Energy risk mandate.
Provide commercial teams with support, challenge and expert risk analysis including the critical evaluation of trading and commercial strategies to improve the quality of commercial proposals and decision making and ensure they meet the desired risk appetite of EDF Energy.
Ensure that an appropriate level of risk review is carried out for new products, strategies, structures and investments and that the risks are clearly understood by decision makers. Be responsible for ensuring appropriate validation of all market risk premia and associated methodologies across the commercial teams.
What we’re looking for…
To be successful as a Market Risk Senior Analyst you will have in-depth knowledge of UK energy or financial markets. You will also ideally have experience in managing operational processes, ensuring robustness and efficiency, as well as being highly analytical and having critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
We also require you to be educated to at least undergraduate degree level in a numerical/analytical subject, and/or hold a professional finance/risk management qualification - CFA, FRM, ERP (desirable but not essential).
You will have sound theoretical and practical understanding of risk management methods and techniques and a strong commercial acumen with an understanding of changing business & financial environments.
You will be able to establish and maintain effective internal and external business relationships with key stakeholders at all levels, as you will be engaging with senior stakeholders, escalating where necessary and presenting clear and concise information. Possessing strong organisational and time management skills with a high level of attention to detail and being able to work autonomously within a pressured environment.
For more information about this role, please contact Steph.Bonner@edfenergy.com
Our culture…
Boktiar Ahmed, Market Risk Senior Analyst, says “Working in Market Risk will give you exposure to different parts of the company and the industry. You get to learn about how our generation, supply and trading businesses operate, make money and the risks involved in these activities. A Market Risk role will help develop your quantitative and softer skills. We develop tools in Excel and VBA and can also get involved with writing codes in Python and SQL. We also write papers and presentations, some of which go to the company CEO. I enjoy working with colleagues from across the company, including from other countries, knowing that we are doing our little bit to help provide the public with something that is of vital importance.”
At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity, inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.
We’re an equal opportunity and disability confident employer. If you feel comfortable sharing with us that you have a disability, you meet the minimum criteria for the role, we will guarantee you an interview.
We’ll value the difference you bring and give you opportunities to thrive and succeed and to feel you belong.
Our benefits…
- Potential to earn 5% bonus
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing with service up to a maximum of 30 days)
- A defined contribution pension scheme
- Retail discounts and cashback deals
- Healthcare cash plan
- Technology benefits
- Government tax-free childcare
Option to purchase:
- Additional annual leave
- Dental insurance
- Gym membership
- Critical illness insurance
- Personal accident insurance
- Travel insurance
- Car breakdown cover
- Dining card
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