Risk Analyst (Commodities)

For a successfully operating commodity trading house headquartered in Zug, Switzerland.

In this function you will work in the Risk Management team and will report to the department head. Your responsibilities will mainly include:

• Daily review of the trading P&L’s to ensure correctness and completeness, covering also the correct valuation of open physical and paper positions at market value as well as associated cost of sales
• Daily reconciliation procedure of analyzed figures with responsible traders as well as month-end reconciliation with accounting department and reconciliation of intercompany positions;
• Regular review of storage positions with all movements on a daily basis
• Production of reports to traders and management such as exposure reports, weekly bank positions reports, VaR reports
• Ad hoc analysis of markets, products, business cases to support the traders
• Daily review and upload of market prices into the trading system, setting up new price curves for new market locations and products

• Bachelor or Master’s degree (in Finance, Business, Economics or related field preferred)
• At least 2 years of experience in a mid-size international trading company preferably in a similar role. Working knowledge of trading processes (operations, logistics, shipping, storage, transactional trade finance, hedging) is desired. Experience in the area of biofuels is a plus.
• Good understanding of commodity valuation risk metrics of a trading company (operational/price/ base and currency risks)
• Strong mathematical and analytical skills
• Working experience with ETRM systems, Analysis Tools and SAP Business Objects
• Excellent MS Office skills, knowledge of a coding language is a plus
• Strong communication skills are required to interact daily with front office and senior management
• Fluency in English
• Detail-oriented team player with high integrity
• Commercially driven, self-motivated, results-oriented problem solver