Senior Quantitative Analyst

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Key Information:

Department: Wholesale Gas Trading Control

Level of experience: +8 years

The team:

The Quantitative Analysis Group reports to the Wholesale Gas Trading Control & Administration Management Unit, and provides advanced analytic solutions to help optimize Wholesale Gas Trading’s European portfolio/assets while effectively managing risk.

The Role:

Among the role's responsibilities will be to work closely with a number of other departments, in particular Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office, Credit, Corporate Risk, Process Support, Accounting, and other corporate departments.

This role is strongly recommended for a senior analyst with a strong commodities background as well as a strong desire to develop a career with an integrated international energy company that offers growth and diversity.

The candidate must be a dynamic person, with high analytical capabilities and with strong knowledge of Europe’s Natural Gas markets to be able to have a good understanding of the operations carried out in our business (both physical operations and financial instruments).

Responsibilities:

1. Develop and maintain sophisticated quantitative models that support business needs for WGT’s gas, LNG, and power businesses.
2. Conduct Stress testing/PFE, and Value at Risk analyses for portfolio of diverse regions and strategies.
3. Support Pre-Deal evaluations and Computation of performance metrics for trade books appropriately incorporating risk characteristics.
4. Implementation/Technical support of these developments in the official systems.
5. Communication and dialogue with other business areas (Front Office, Middle Office, Back Office, Credit, Process Support, Accounting, Compliance).

Required Qualifications

1. Bachelor's degree or higher, preferably in Engineering, Finance, Math, or Business.
2. 8+ years of work experience in a quantitative research, trading or risk management capacity related to Energy markets.
3. Good understanding of option pricing theory, derivatives, mathematical finance, and stochastic calculus.
4. Technical expert in modeling /developing valuation & risk models/ analyzing structured transactions.
5. Familiarity with Microsoft Excel and programming concepts are essential; Experience with VBA and SQL Server are a plus.
6. Previous experience with quantitative risk tools (i.e. FEA, Lacima, etc.) and knowledge of ETRM systems (i.e. Allegro).
7. Proficiency in Spanish and English.
8. Experience with European LNG and Gas Products is highly recommended.