Market Risk Analyst - North America Crude & Freight

Job Description

Location:

Spring, TX, US

Company:
Exxon Mobil

About Exxon Mobil:
At Exxon Mobil, 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 Exxon Mobil 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.

About Houston:
Exxon Mobil's state-of-the-art campus north of Houston serves as home to its Upstream, Product Solutions and Low Carbon Solutions businesses and their associated service groups. The facility opened in 2014 and accommodates more than 10,000 employees and visitors. By bringing many global functional groups together, the campus provides employees with the tools and capabilities needed today, and in the future, to achieve business objectives and accelerate the discovery of new resources, technologies and products.

It was designed to foster improved collaboration, creativity and innovation and enhance the company’s ability to attract, develop and retain the top talent in the industry. The campus is located in Spring, Texas, on 385 wooded acres immediately to the west of Interstate Highway 45 (I-45), at the intersection of I-45 and the Hardy Toll Road, approximately 25 miles from the cultural vibrancy of downtown Houston.

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Job Description:

Position responsibilities can include:

• 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.

Academic:

• Bachelor’s degree or above (Master's, MBA, CFA, or Ph.D.) in Economics, Finance,…