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About the Role

Build, maintain, and improve market risk reporting infrastructure and tools, including the automation and streamlining of existing processes. Create market risk models, advise traders on pending deals, and develop market risk measurement methods. Monitor daily market risk, stress, and Value at Risk (VaR) exposures against limits and risk appetite, while remaining aware of current market dynamics. Manage market risk assessments for new product lines and enforce market risk policies and procedures. Process and analyze large data sets using SQL, perform stress testing, and develop risk mitigation strategies.

Responsibilities

Build, maintain and improve market risk reporting infrastructure and tools, including the automation and streamlining of existing processes
Create market risk models and advise traders on pending deals
Develop market risk measurement methods and understand process flows
Daily monitor of market risk, stress and Value at Risk (VaR) exposures against limits and risk appetite, while remaining constantly aware of current market dynamics
Manage market risk assessments for new product lines, working with traders to understand their markets
Create, update, present and enforce market risk policies and procedures
Process and analyze large data sets using SQL while maintaining and updating codebases to ensure performance and scalability
Perform stress testing and develop risk mitigation strategies

Requirements

Bachelor or Master of Finance, Economic, Statistics or Econometrics
5-7 years of experience in market risk within commodity trading or a leading financial institution
Strong market analysis and financial assessment capabilities
Experience with Python is essential
Intellectually curious and able to demonstrate structures problem solving and analytical skills
Confident communication (verbal and written) with stakeholder management

Skills

Market risk
Commodity trading
Financial institution
Market analysis
Financial assessment
Python
SQL
Problem solving
Analytical skills
Communication
Stakeholder management

Location

New York City

Work Type

100% in-office
Full-time

Experience Level

5-7 years

Education Level

Bachelor or Master of Finance, Economic, Statistics or Econometrics

Salary/Compensations

$120K - $160K

About the Company

ACT Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Equal Opportunity

All employment decisions at ACT Group are made without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, family or parental status, status with regard to public assistance, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.