Trading Market Risk Advisor - EAME Freight

ExxonMobil; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Defined Benefit Pension scheme

Share incentive plan

Private healthcare for employees and families

Job summary

ExxonMobil is seeking a Trading Market Risk Advisor to support freight trading desks and manage risk associated with trading activities. The successful candidate will analyze exposures, provide risk insights, and lead oversight of trading positions.

This role requires a Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field and experience in energy trading or financial risk management. Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits are offered.

Qualifications

• Hold a Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) in a quantitative field.
• Significant work experience in energy trading or risk management.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-impact market risk insights.
• Lead oversight of exposure risk and resolve discrepancies.
• Utilize advanced risk analytics to enhance decision-making.
• Master the full market risk lifecycle from trade capture to risk reporting.
• Evaluate complex commodity transactions for risk representation.
• Mentor junior analysts and deliver strategic insights.

Skills

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Understanding of financial analysis

Energy Commodity & Derivative Trading

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Finance, Mathematics, or Statistics

Job description

About Us

At ExxonMobil, our vision is to lead in energy innovations that advance modern living and a net-zero future. As one of the world’s largest publicly traded energy and chemical companies, we are powered by a unique and diverse workforce fueled by the pride in what we do and what we stand for.

The success of our Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses is the result of the talent, curiosity and drive of our people. They bring solutions every day to optimize our strategy in energy, chemicals, lubricants and lower-emissions technologies.

We invite you to bring your ideas to ExxonMobil to help create sustainable solutions that improve quality of life and meet society’s evolving needs. Learn more about our What and our Why and how we can work together.

What Role You Will Play In Our Team

Join us as a Trading Market Risk Advisor with roles to support Freight Trading desks. Become part of a team responsible for monitoring and managing the risk associated with ExxonMobil’s trading activities. You will provide risk analysis for global and regional activities sitting alongside commercial traders and advising daily on Trading PnL, exposures, VAR, mark-to-market accounting, limit monitoring. Freight Trading Risk Management capability (Koch, Maersk etc.).

What You Will Do

• Market Risk Advisory & Strategic Stakeholder Engagement: Proactively deliver high-impact market risk insights through daily analysis and reporting of trading positions, exposures, TCM, and risk limit utilization. Apply advanced market and commodity analysis to generate insight and detect anomalies to provide input to trading strategies and risk mitigation.
• Trade Integrity & Dynamic Exposure Management: Lead the daily oversight of exposure risk by maintaining rigorous position tracking and analysis. Identify and resolve trade booking discrepancies, data integrity issues, and abnormal exposure variations with urgency and precision. Act as a trusted risk partner to traders by providing timely alerts and recommendations, including Trade Money Management (TMM) and hedging options input, that safeguard against operational and financial risk. Assess and mitigate market exposures in OTC commodity swaps and options, integrating scenario analysis, stress testing, and valuation methodologies to support strategic decision-making and regulatory compliance.
• Analytical Excellence & Risk Methodology Leadership: Utilize and continuously refine advanced risk analytics such as Value-at-Risk (VaR), stress testing, and scenario analysis to enhance portfolio transparency and decision-making. Attest and recommend liquid and illiquid curve methodology against set principles. Leverage ETRM and analytical tools to deliver accurate, forward-looking risk assessments that support trading performance and capital efficiency.
• End-to-End Market Risk Process Mastery & Skill Evolution: Demonstrate deep understanding of the full market risk lifecycle—from trade capture and exposure modeling to risk reporting and limit governance—enabling swift and effective issue resolution across systems and stakeholders. Continuously build expertise in evolving market and commodity risk management techniques, including option trading, OTC swaps, and structured products. Stay ahead of industry developments to provide forward-looking insights and enhance the strategic value of risk advisory services.
• Transaction Risk Evaluation: Evaluate complex commodity transactions by calculating Day 1 reserves and other valuation adjustments, ensuring accurate risk representation and alignment with accounting and regulatory standards. Manage both liquid and illiquid Curve Building and Validation supporting sound MTM principles. Provide independent oversight and proactively challenge trading decisions when risk exposures are unreasonable or misaligned with the company’s risk appetite.
• Advanced Risk Strategy & Advisory: Deliver strategic market risk insights to support trading leadership in decision-making, while mentoring junior analysts and fostering analytical excellence across the risk organization. Independently assess new business opportunities by reviewing transaction terms, model assumptions, valuation methodologies, and expected results. Review plan for hedging and provide support to develop trading limits. Ensure that the proposed transaction and associated hedges can be properly valued and reported by the risk management system of record.
• Governance & Risk Infrastructure Enhancement: Strengthen market risk governance by enhancing control frameworks, refining risk reporting processes, and aligning infrastructure with evolving regulatory standards and business objectives.

About You

To be eligible for this role, you must:

• Hold a Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent) in Economics, Finance, Mathematics, Statistics or other quantitative field
• Should have significant work experience in energy trading, financial or energy risk management

Preferred Skills / Knowledge / Abilities

• An advanced degree, such as a Master’s, MBA, CFA, or Ph.D., degree in Energy or Financial Risk Management is preferred
• Attention to detail with a strong process execution focus with a result orientation approach
• Strong analytical skills and knowledge of financial instruments
• Strong understanding of decision analysis techniques (commercial acumen), statistical modelling and comfort in modelling issues involving risk and uncertainty
• Strong understanding of financial analysis and application to energy transacting
• The desire to work in a fast-paced, diverse and inclusive environment

Your Benefits

An ExxonMobil career is one designated to last. Our commitment to you runs deep: our employees grow personally and professionally, with benefits built on our core categories of health, security, finance, and life.

We offer you:

• Competitive salary
• Defined Benefit Pension scheme
• Share incentive plan
• Private healthcare for employees and their families

Please note benefits may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.

Functional Skills

• Energy Commodity & Derivative Trading
• Energy Risk Analysis & Mitigation
• Financial Markets Execution
• Econometric Analysis
• Market Pricing Mechanisms