Country USA City HOUSTON Workplace location HOUSTON-LOUISIANA STREET(USA) Employer company TotalEnergies Gas & Power North America, Inc. Domain Finance Type of contract Regular position Experience Minimum 3 years Context & Environment Fast development of TotalEnergies’ Power portfolio in the U.S. where it has now more than 10 GW gross capacity of renewable projects in operation, in construction and in development.Dynamic trading environment with time-sensitive, business critical activities requiring instantaneous analyses and generation of reports.The Risk Control Analyst is part of the Global Risk Control team involving Houston, London, and Singapore.The Risk Control Analyst works closely with Front Office, Operations, Back Office, Finance, Compliance, and Trading System teams. The team works across locations and product types including Natural gas, NGL, LNG, Power and Dry bulk products.The Middle Office is responsible for calculating profits and losses and for managing the risks of the trading department. It is responsible for all aspects of market risk control, such as risk identification, measurement, monitoring and disclosure across various classes of energy commodity assets.
PURPOSES:Compliance with internal trading limits; Accurate and independent analysis, valuation, and reporting of risk positions and trading resultsExternal regulatory compliance

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The jobholder will work in the Global Risk Control department, under the supervision of the Head of Risk Control in Houston, Texas, and will seek to measure, analyze and monitor the P&L and Risk Exposure of the Asset Trading Desk. The position is based in Houston and includes oversight of both global and US energy markets.

Activities

As part of the Global Risk Control Organization activities involve contributing to any Risk Control process of the entities covered by the Global team: 

Ownership of Daily Middle Office Risk Reporting and explanation of Risk and PnL changes on the Power Assets Trading Desk. The selected candidate will be expected to explain trading and risk changes to the front office, risk control management, and senior managers.Responsible for leading the risk management analysis, monitoring, and reporting for Power Plant (Gas Asset) trading activities including open positions, valuation controls, MTM valuation, including daily explanations on applicable metrics and limits.Coordinate and review deal and price in trading system by performing deal check, price validation, curve update, and data reconciliation. Monitor timely deal capture, internal trading limits, and risk policy requirements to ensure the representativeness and integrity of transactions in the trading system.Provide critical thinking around risk reporting processes, quantification, and analysis of commodity exposure and forward price movements for TGPNA’s multi-products trading activities. Maintain, enhance, and review risk models. Test new risk calculations, evaluate model assumptions against fundamentals, and communicate suggested modeling/valuation enhancements to achieve better valuation and risk quantification. Communicate effectively with Front Office, Operation, back office and Finance team on inputs and assumptions.Work closely with Traders to quantify and explain the sources of risk in their portfolios.Work closely with Back Office, Finance, Credit, Legal & Compliance, Business Unit Control to ensure best control practices, operational efficiency and policy/limit compliance.Coordinate with Compliance to ensure compliance requirements are met.Support, identify, and assist in implement of process improvement, from system testing and implementations to desk level process.Identify and communicate operational risk, define risk mitigating measures and priorities. Candidate Profile

You are someone who possesses the following experience and credentials:

Degree in economics/finance/business/mathematics or related quantitative discipline.Comprehensive understanding of risk management methodologies and valuation models.Solid understanding and experience quantifying risk position exposures, PnL reporting, MtM analysis and other Risk Metrics.Preferred understanding and prior experience with power plant analysis and modeling in relation to power production. Gas and/or Power Risk Management experience particularly in one or more of the North American power RTOs/ISOs and power risk metrics including an understanding of VaR.Financial understanding of futures, swaps, and options including a basic understanding of option theory and ‘greeks’.Strong understanding of gas and power pricing structures including experience in validating prices with external sources.Power BI, Python, or other data science understanding is desirable.High degree of accuracy and efficiency under set deadlines. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.High levels of flexibility with regard working hours.Good interpersonal skills.
**TotalEnergies regrets that it is unable to sponsor employment Visas or consider individuals on time-limited visa status for this position.  Additional Information TotalEnergies values diversity, promotes individual growth and offers equal opportunity careers.