Senior Commodity Risk Analyst

Our client is looking for Senior Commodity Risk Analyst – Commercial FP&A to be based in Houston, this is a hybrid role. You will be required to work closely with the senior leadership team to ensure the firms efficiency and profitability. The position needs someone with a combined skillset that encompasses Commodity Risk and FP&A.

The role has a lot of variety, from Financial Analysis & Management Reporting, leading business decision making, being integral to increasing efficiency & profitability all the way through to providing mentorship for the analysts. You will analyze, reconcile, and report a comparison of the financial (U.S. GAAP) profitability with the published mark-to-market economic profitability for the companies Supply and Trading businesses. Your financial analysis of data will impact leadership in making profitable business decisions and understanding the timing of these economic impacts versus financial reporting.

Responsibilities:

Business decision support: Work with Risk, Finance, and the Commercial businesses to provide high quality reconciliation and commentary of the ongoing mark-to-market economic versus financial profitability timing and reporting differences through exceptional analytical and modeling skills.

Planning & forecasting: Analyze companies economic and financial profitability performance against commercial business plans, analyzing business performance and market conditions to create forecasts and reconciliations of these different profitability perspectives, while helping senior management make tactical and strategic decisions by providing periodic reports.

Management reporting: Coordinate economic and financial profitability reconciliation reporting and commentary for the commercial businesses with input from the Risk, Finance, and the underlying commercial businesses to develop weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual reports for presentation to management.

Business analytics: Use key relationships, and knowledge of business strategy, trends, and key events to identify new opportunities to improve business analytics, and performance management tools.

Scenario modeling: Develop the actual model structure, testing process and implementation of the information model, and determines the best model delivery (i.e., using Power BI or MS Excel, etc.).

Special projects: Lead other initiatives and special projects as directed by the FP&A Management team including the development of new commercial business and additional systems initiatives.

You will need a bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, or a related field alongside 6+ years of experience. Specific experience with commodity market risk management at a commodity trader, bank, or hedge fund is also desired. Proficiency and/or prior experience with energy trading and risk management (ETRM) software platform and analytical tools (e.g. Power BI, Alteryx, or other) is also highly desirable.