(Global Oil Gas) Accounting Specialist - Credit & Market Analysis
MatchaTalent
- Perth, WA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Analyze and quantify interest rate, foreign exchange (FX), and commodity risk exposure of the group and propose hedging strategies to mitigate such risks.
- Understand and report on market risk dynamics of the specific portfolio, including key drivers impacting prices, volatility, and values, and their prospective impact on risks and earnings.
- Ensure accuracy and consistency in defining and updating volatilities, market prices, forward curves, correlations, and other key valuation components.
- Assist in setting up, configuring, and implementing hedging of market risks and related risk analytic systems.
- Ensure that new business transactions and related risks are appropriately defined and captured by the Company's risk systems and methodologies.
- Analyze risks/return related to new business and markets, liaising with business functions to ensure constituent market risks are understood, appropriate to risk appetite, correctly reported, and, if necessary, hedged.
- Monitor positions against market risk metrics and limits, collaborating with business functions and risk control regarding potential limit exceedance.
- Conduct stress testing on various portfolios to identify and mitigate unwanted exposure.
- Review policies and procedures, aligning risk policies across the Group.
- Willingness to relocate to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
- Hold a Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field. An MBA or other advanced business degree is preferred.
- Strong preference for a professional certification such as CFA, FRM, or PRM.
- Possess at least 10 years of experience in financial markets risk management within a corporate or bank environment.
- Experienced in developing, implementing, applying, and overseeing financial markets risk models, hedging alternatives, pricing, and hedge execution strategies.
- Prior knowledge and experience with trading concepts, derivative instruments, ISDA agreements, hedge accounting, and operations.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel.
- Capable of coaching junior analysts in developing their analytical skills and reporting capabilities.