Gas & Power Portfolio Risk Manager

Title: Gas and Power Trading Portfolio Risk Manager
Location: Lugano, Switzerland CH
Salary: Negotiable basic + bonus + relocation (if applicable)

VP of Making Sure Nobody Screws Up. Trading Traction Control Officer. Chief Snitch. Overseer of the Realm. Head of “What Now?”

Whatever you want to call it, you will be making sure all the right risk policies and procedures are in place to ensure a talented, fast paced natural gas, LNG and power trading team are working within defined limits and risk profiles. With a team as diverse and talented as our client’s, you’ll be working with established procedures, improving them and applying them using VBA/Python/Matlab/Magic/Spells/Sourcery etc. and working with senior management to establish workable practices and monitor what’s going on “on the floor”.

This isn’t a new position. Our client hasn’t been playing fast and loose with credit lines and no risk oversight. No. The existing Portfolio Risk Manager is taking on a new role with the firm, opening up space to keep his chair in use and continue his excellent work to date in ensuring astute risk metrics and full compliance. Internal promotion and recognition are big things here. If you want somewhere that you can grow and develop, without having to jump firms every 2 years, this might be just what you’re looking for.

Lugano is a beautiful place, but one that is low on power and gas trading businesses. Our client is all too aware of this fact and happy to assist with relocation for those wishing to move to Lugano for this opportunity.

Responsibilities:

• Refine and implement the company’s risk policy and procedure across all trading desks/traders
• Communicate with finance, trading teams and senior management to ensure adherance to risk management policy, and ensure trades are within risk limits across the natural gas/power space
• Develop risk control/portfolio risk analysis tools using relavent database/coding tools and experience (Python, Matlab, VBA/Excel etc.)
• Keep on top of trading activity and daily figures/reports to ensure close control of trading risk policy internally
• Act as point of contact/escalation for concerns and queries around risk limits and controls across the natural gas trading desk
• Take ownership of internal risk control across all stages of the trading cycle, working with internal teams on minimizing risk in all aspects of the value chain

We would love to speak with you if you have:

• 5+ years’ experience in a senior risk management/trading risk/risk control position within an energy, natural gas, LNG, power trading business
• A solid understanding and experience in relavent coding languages (Python, Matlab, VBA etc.)
• Good knowledge of the natural gas/power trading markets in Europe
• A proactive and detail orientated approach with a solid track record of implementing and maintaining risk controls in a physical trading business
• The ability to work autonomously and take control/ownership of the risk function for the natural gas/power trading business
• Experience in working with senior management and acting as a point of escalation for trading risk/risk control queries/concerns
• The ability to work in/relocate to Lugano, Switzerland

If this opportunity is for you, please apply via below. If you don’t have a CV or Resume put together, don’t fear. We don’t need one (we aren’t one of those recruiters). You can contact either Josh Clark or Mark Taylor to discuss further. Reach out on LinkedIn or by emailing/calling the below:

josh.clark@imperiumcs.com/mark.taylor@imperiumcs.com/+44 (0) 203 927 5090

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