Market Risk Analyst - North American Crude & Freight

Exxon Mobil; Spring (TX); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Share incentive plan

Private healthcare

Job summary

A leading energy company in Spring, TX, is looking for a Market Risk Analyst to oversee trading compliance and develop risk management tools. The candidate should possess a Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, Mathematics, or Statistics with 2-4 years of experience in risk management. Responsibilities include monitoring trading activities, collaborating with stakeholders, and generating market risk reports. Proficiency in Excel and familiarity with programming languages such as Python is preferred. This role offers competitive benefits including private healthcare and a share incentive plan.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of experience in financial, energy, or chemical risk management.
• Strong knowledge of crude oil and freight markets.
• Experience with Energy Trading Risk Management Systems.

Responsibilities

• Monitor trading activities for compliance with Market Risk Management policies.
• Develop tools for Global Trading activities.
• Provide risk reports and market analysis.
• Collaborate with Global Trading for risk management.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

Market risk management

Risk assessment

Stakeholder engagement

Excel proficiency

SQL knowledge

Education

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

Tools

Excel

Python

R

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

About the Company

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 .

Location

Spring, TX, US 77389

Nearest Major Market: Houston

What role you will play on our team

The Market Risk Analyst position is responsible for monitoring trading activities for compliance with Market Risk Management policies and developing and maintaining tools for Global Trading activities. You will be responsible for independently identifying, measuring, and reporting trading gross margin, exposures, and the market risk of the portfolio of transactions that are executed and owned by the Commercial organization. You will work with a dynamic, global team in a high‑visibility role that provides advice to the Commercial organization on risk appetite, risk limit utilization and market risk mitigation strategies, and risk assessments and insights to senior management.

What you will do

• Act as Market Risk focal point for front‑office and senior stakeholders. Develop strong relationships with Commercial stakeholders and possess deep end‑to‑end understanding of Global Trading strategies, associated exposures and future growth aspirations for the trade desk supported.
• Understand supply and demand fundamentals, including regional/locational price differences, fundamental drivers of changes in these spreads, historical market direction and trends/underlying fundamental causes.
• Show a strong commitment to market risk management principles, including being proactive, transparent, and open to debate with Global Trading as necessary.
• Independently assess and advise on risk profiles from the trade to portfolio level (e.g., risk reward trade‑off, optimization of constrained risk, liquidity, market fundamentals, and market sentiment sensitivities).
• Ensure adherence to mandated exposure and risk limits and provide guidance on actions to be taken to reduce risk if necessary.
• Execute daily market risk processes and generate risk reports, collaborating closely with Global Trading teams to manage market risk.
• Provide daily, insightful commentary of key portfolio activity including their implications for market intelligence, exposure changes, and new deal activity.
• Collaborate with Global Trading support functions (e.g. Finance, Accounting) for deal support and general portfolio queries.
• Ensure Global Trading data integrity by validating positions and reconciling any inconsistencies with responsible traders.
• Review plan for hedging and provide support to develop Global Trading limits. Ensure that the proposed transaction and associated hedges can be properly valued and reported by the risk management system of record.
• Further develop and build out Risk reporting and ad‑hoc analysis tools using advanced computer skills (e.g. Excel, VBA, SQL, Python, R, Tableau, Power BI).
• Participate in month, quarter, and year‑end closing processes.
• Work closely (daily) with refinery coordinators and optimizers, product schedulers and crude traders to validate production data and trades impacting inventory positions and generate hedging signals.

About you

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree or above (Master’s, MBA, CFA, or Ph.D.) in Economics, Finance, Mathematics or Statistics

2‑4 years of experience in financial, energy or chemical risk management

• Strong knowledge of crude oil and freight markets, as well as other energy and traded markets
• Strong understanding of physical trading, derivatives, and financial products
• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills
• Excellent proficiency in Excel (experience with SQL or quantitative programming languages such as Python preferred)
• Experience with Energy Trading Risk Management Systems
• Collegiality and truly good interpersonal skills balanced with a disciplined risk management approach

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Python/SQL
• High level of Excel proficiency
• Familiarity with trade capture and nomination / scheduling systems

ExxonMobil is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, protected veteran status, genetic information, or physical or mental disability.

We offer a share incentive plan and private healthcare for employees and their families. Benefits are subject exclusively to the terms of each plan’s governing documents and may be changed from time to time without notice, subject to applicable law.