Risk Analyst

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• About the role

Reporting to the Group Treasurer and located in our Sydney head office - this role is offered on a hybrid working pattern of 3 days in the office and 2 days at home.

• You will join a busy and dynamic team and will be required to provide insights into commodities and our position for trading. Other key responsibilities for this role include;
• Develop and maintain an integrated Value at Risk (VaR) methodology for commodity and trading positions
• Develop and maintain other forms of scenario modelling and stress testing of commodity and trading positions
• Develop and maintain analysis of commodity positions and trading positons
• Develop / support development of integrated databases to support VaR and scenario / stress testing models.
• Provide daily reporting for Grains VaR
• Develop and regularly maintain weekly reporting for the Management Risk Committee "(MRC")
• Produce research material useable in relevant MRC discussions
• Provide reporting for quarterly MRC and Audit Risk Committee ("ARC")
• About your experience
• Demonstratable experience in generating quantitative risk analysis models (Value at Risk, scenario models, sensitivity analysis, statistical probabilities)
• Strong analytical skills
• Capacity to transpose quantitative thinking to methods applicable in the real world
• Experience in programming, running or maintaining risk analysis software and data libraries.
• Experience in commodities
• Strong knowledge of risk and associated measures and theories : , value-at-risk etc.
• Knowledge of relational database management systems
• Ability to use APIs for data collection and capacity to build and maintain efficient databases
• A passion for markets and good financial and economic 'culture'
• Knowledge of derivatives markets mechanics and market structure including but not limited to listed futures and option
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