Job Description
At Uniper, we proactively transform the world of energy while ensuring the security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams with the greatest possible working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply, as well as proactively help shape changes. Interested? We look forward to meeting you!
Our Risk Management Team in Düsseldorf is looking for YOU!
- Identify, analyse and manage risks in Uniper's long term portfolio, cross-commodities focus (Power, Gas, LNG etc)
- Involvement in approval of complex & large strategic investment decisions
- Ensure that all exposures generated from complex or long-term deals are fully understood, including independently assessing overlooked risks
- Follow valuation principles in accordance with financial and management accounting requirements
- Agree hedging strategies if necessary
- Write concise decision support briefs. Ultimately providing formal approval or veto
- Work together with wider market risk area to develop methodologies for extending forward curves beyond the liquid transparent tenor for the valuation of long-term deals
- In collaboration with FO and risk internal (Quantitative methods and wider Market Risk) teams support developing and maintain of asset-backed risk models, including calibration of such models
- At times, engage in innovative tasks for Risk Management as a whole such as supporting in designing methodologies to quantify risks which lie outside of our current established risk metrics
- Conduct scenario analysis and simulation for the wider Uniper portfolio by actively collaborating with the quantitative team to further develop methods for risk assessment
- Represent and present Uniper strategic risks to senior stakeholders and management
- Think commercially about the development and implementation of new products and hedging tools in markets and steer new business approvals
- Build a solid, commercially oriented, cooperative environment with involved functions, encourage cross-team cooperation & communication on portfolio questions
- Understand front to end processes and work effectively across all levels of the organization to challenge, promote dialogue and drive cooperation
- Contribute towards holistic risk awareness and the promotion of risk management across the business
- To excel in this role, you need to have strong analytical and research skills, and a broader understanding of the industry. Knowledge of market risk concepts and statistics is a must
- Background in Business/Finance/Engineering/Mathematics or equivalent education
- Relevant experience in risk/asset management or trading within an investment bank or energy trading company
- Learner mindset, strong analytical orientation with a problem-solving mind-set
- Ability to simplify & streamline complex content into quickly and easily understandable concepts/messages
- Ability to engage in balanced and independent interaction with commercial teams
- Commercially oriented individual with strong focus on accuracy of information and attention to details
- Profound usage of different risk models and methodologies in order to model real world commercial contracts. Ability to manage interface to quant teams
- Strong programming skills (SQL is a must), preferably Python
- Strong team player with experience of working in an international and multicultural team
- Fluent in English (additional languages welcome)
At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst at the same time ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams with the greatest possible working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply as well as pro-actively help to shape changes. Interested? Then we will look forward to meeting you!
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