Risk Analyst
Posted on: 22 Sep 2021
Houston, TX
Job Description
Job Responsibilities:
• Support senior staff to develop risk models and reports that accurately capture material risks specific to market/asset/region and trading strategy
• Independent validation of market valuations for existing portfolio and new deals
• Assist with ongoing monitoring of portfolio risk with weekly commentary on utilization, new activity, market events and liquidity.
• Adherence to risk management policies with focus on maintaining effective controls for trading and business processes. Support of compliance and audit activities.
• Interact with traders, originators, accounting staff, and management to understand and answer questions about portfolio positions, changes, and risk factors.
• Collaborate with IT organization to improve the underlying risk system infrastructure (models, calculations, data flows, reports, etc.).
Requirements • Bachelor’s Degree in discipline such as business, engineering, or other quantitative discipline with 0-2 years of experience. Energy sector is preferred. Master’s degree a plus.
• Knowledge base should cover a significant subset of the following topics:
• Strong model-building skills; experienced with analytical and data manipulation applications such as Excel, SQL, Visual Basic, R, and other programming languages preferred.
• Analytical and quantitative skills (preferably with coursework in risk management and option pricing)
• Ability to analyze large volumes of data and present results in a clear, concise written and oral form
• Should be able to accept responsibility and work autonomously; able to excel under the pressure of multiple deadlines.
• Team player who is used to diving into issues, brainstorming solutions, and learning new methods and tools to address; results oriented.
Calpine
Houston, TX
Calpine Corporation is America’s largest generator of electricity from natural gas and geothermal resources with robust commercial, industrial and residential retail operations in key competitive power markets. Founded in 1984, we use advanced technologies to generate power in an efficient, cost-effective and environmentally responsible manner. Our fleet of 78 power plants in operation or under construction represents nearly 26,000 megawatts of generation capacity.
Through wholesale power operations and our retail businesses, we serve customers in 23 states, Canada and Mexico. Our clean, efficient, modern and flexible fleet uses advanced technologies to generate power in a low-carbon and environmentally responsible manner. We are uniquely positioned to benefit from the secular trends affecting our industry, including the abundant and affordable supply of clean natural gas, environmental regulation, aging power generation infrastructure and the increasing need for dispatchable power plants to successfully integrate intermittent renewables into the grid.
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IndustryEnergy/Utilities
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No. of Employees2,372
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