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(Senior) Market Risk Analyst (f/m/d)
UniperDüsseldorf, Germanyfull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Feb 2024
About the role
<p> Our Risk Management team in Düsseldorf is looking for you! </p>
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<p>We are Uniper</p>
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<p>At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst at the same time ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams with the greatest possible working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply as well as pro-actively help to shape changes. Interested? Then we will look forward to meeting you!</p>
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<p>Your responsibilities</p>
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<li>Identify, analyze and manage market risks in Uniper's portfolios, with a focus on Renewables and other decarbonized alternatives. Desk facing for our RES PPA portfolio, meaning involved in discussing and independently challenge traders and trading management on new investments and strategies</li>
<li>Involvement in approval of complex & large transactions. Ensure that all exposures generated from complex or long-term deals are fully understood, including independently assessing overlooked risks, agree hedging strategies and write concise decision support briefs. Ultimately providing formal approval or veto</li>
<li>Develop standard deal entry methodologies for complex and long term contracts, ensuring that difficult to value elements such as physical optionality are properly reported. Ensure that these deals are valued in accordance with financial and management accounting requirements</li>
<li>Develop methodologies for extending forward curves beyond the liquid transparent tenor for the valuation of long-term deals</li>
<li>In collaboration with FO and risk internal (Quantitative methods and wider Market Risk) teams support developing and maintain of asset-backed risk models (RES PPA focus), including calibration of such models</li>
<li>At times, engage in innovative tasks for Risk Management as a whole such as supporting in designing methodologies to quantify risks which lie outside of our current established risk metrics</li>
<li>Conduct scenario analysis and simulation by actively collaborating with the quantitative team to further develop methods for risk assessment</li>
<li>Represent and present the managed portfolio to senior stakeholders and management</li>
<li>Think commercially about the development and implementation of new products and hedging tools in markets and steer new business approvals</li>
<li>Build a solid, commercially oriented, cooperative environment with involved functions, encourage cross-team cooperation & communication on portfolio questions</li>
<li>Understand front to end processes and work effectively across all levels of the organization to challenge, promote dialogue and drive cooperation</li>
<li>Contribute towards holistic risk awareness and the promotion of risk management across the business</li>
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<p>Your profile</p>
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<li>To excel in this role, you need to have strong analytical and research skills, and a broader understanding of the industry. Knowledge of market risk concepts and statistics is a must</li>
<li>University degree, in Business/Finance/Engineering/Mathematics or equivalent education</li>
<li>Relevant experience in risk/asset management or trading within an investment bank or energy trading company (4+ years)</li>
<li>Learner mindset, strong analytical orientation with a problem-solving mind-set</li>
<li>Ability to simplify & streamline complex content into quickly and easily understandable concepts/messages</li>
<li>Ability to engage in balanced and independent interaction with commercial teams</li>
<li>Commercially oriented individual with strong focus on accuracy of information and attention to details</li>
<li>Profound usage of different risk models and methodologies in order to model real world commercial contracts. Ability to manage interface to quant teams</li>
<li>Strong programming skills (SQL is a must), preferably Python</li>
<li>Strong team player with experience of working in an international and multicultural team</li>
<li>Fluent in English (additional languages welcome)</li>
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<p>Your benefits</p>
At Uniper, we not only reward our employees with attractive salaries, an excellent company pension and health related benefits for their hard work and dedication to shaping the future energy transition. You can also expect a supportive working culture that offers a wide range of creative and innovative ideas. We enable various flexible working arrangements, whilst also supporting with home office equipment.
Through regular training and workshops, together we work towards visualising yourself in our company as if it were your own. We support you in highlighting your individual potential, achieving your personal
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