Trading Market Risk Advisor- EMEA Power

ExxonMobil; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Defined Benefit Pension scheme

Share incentive plan

Private healthcare for employees and their families

Job summary

ExxonMobil in Greater London seeks a Trading Market Risk Advisor to support the management of trading risks. The candidate will deliver market risk analysis, oversee exposure risks, and enhance decision-making processes for trading activities.

Candidates should hold a Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative field and have substantial experience in energy trading. The role offers competitive salary and benefits including private healthcare and pension scheme.

Qualifications

• Significant work experience in energy trading or financial risk management.
• Strong understanding of financial analysis related to energy transacting.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-impact market risk insights through reporting of trading positions.
• Lead oversight of exposure risk by maintaining position tracking.
• Evaluate complex commodity transactions for accurate risk representation.

Skills

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Financial instruments knowledge

Decision analysis techniques

Education

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

Job description

What Role You Will Play In Our Team

Join us as a Trading Market Risk Advisor with roles to support Power. 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.

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

• 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 and 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

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