Market Risk Analyst

Requisition ID: 77468

NextEra Energy Marketing is one of the nation’s leading electricity and natural gas marketers. We are responsible for electricity and fuel management for all of NextEra Energy Resources’ generation fleet, which includes the largest renewable energy portfolio in North America. We also provide marketing and trading services to electric and gas utilities, municipalities, cooperatives and other load-serving entities, as well as to owners of electric generation facilities. Are you interested in customizing power and gas solutions to meet each client’s needs? Join our world-class team today!

Position Specific Description

A highly skilled, hands-on market risk professional and product controller to join our market risk management team. This team operates several areas of support that some firms may operate separately: market risk management, product control, and independent price verification. We see these areas as inseparable for a complete understanding of the trading risks. The person we are seeking is a seasoned professional who is excited about energy risk management and can translate that into building a first-class risk function.

This role reports to the Director, Head of Market Risk Management and is based at NextEra Energy’s headquarters in beautiful Juno Beach, FL. NextEra is uniquely positioned in the US power markets, especially in renewables, and continues to grow. While we expect the successful candidate to make a commitment to this role, the company offers extensive career opportunities at this location.

Responsibilities:

• Join a team of 4 to 5 market risk analysts
• Engage with traders, originators, and other business units to understand the strategies and risks across the trading floor and embed that understanding in risk management operations
• Develop and implement market risk models, including VaR, stress testing, and scenario analysis
• Monitor, analyze, and report on market risk exposures and assess exposures versus established limits
• Daily reconciliation and verification of trading P&L
• Explain profit and loss performance to management
• Produce and distribute daily P&L and attribution, position, and risk reports
• Perform independent price verification of pricing curves, propose valuation reserves as appropriate
• Evaluate complex transactions including calculating Day 1 and other reserves
• Application of company accounting policies to support external financial reporting
• Significant involvement in month-, quarter-, and year-end closing processes
• Conform to SOX controls processes and innovate controls improvements
• Work closely with other risk functions to ensure a holistic approach to risk management
• Support systems upgrades and implementations and Trading Risk Management automation projects
• Foster a risk aware culture, model high ethical standards, and be a champion for the company’s values of excellence, doing the right thing, and respect

Qualifications:

• Proven success on a leading power and gas trading floor as a risk manager and/or product controller or closely related roles, e.g., trader, 2+ years

• Knowledge of power and gas markets, as well as other energy and traded markets

• Good understanding of physical trading, derivatives, and financial products

• Excellent quantitative and analytical skills

• Excellent proficiency in Excel, SQL, and quantitative programming languages such as Python

• Experience with Energy Trading Risk Management Systems (preferred)

• Degree in a quantitative discipline

• Collegiality and truly good interpersonal skills balanced with a disciplined risk management approach

• Professional passionate about risk management

  Job Overview

  This position is responsible for ensuring the energy marketing functions are operating in a controlled environment and within established risk management limits. Employees in this role review daily trading position exposures, including time and location spreads, cross commodity arbitrage, options and hedging activity against approved limits. This position works with the Front Office and Risk teams to understand new and existing trading strategies for risk review and reporting and ensures correct application of pricing methodologies.

  Job Duties & Responsibilities

  • Conducts daily transaction exposure analysis and review including troubleshooting and investigation of Profit and Loss and Value at Risk movements

• Ensures accuracy of pricing data within the Risk systems on a daily, monthly and quarterly basis

• Performs daily deal verification procedures and independent price verification at regular intervals

• Coordinates with the Systems team to complete new pricing requests and enhance processes and reporting tools

• Communicates price disclosures to appropriate parties

• Completes quarter end and SOX related processes

• Works with origination and other front office groups to interpret valuations, respond to trader requests, and evaluate structured transactions

• Prepares presentations for management to explain and review risks and trading strategies

• Supports medium and long term projects within the group aimed at increasing efficiencies and coverage of the controls

• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

  Required Qualifications

  • High School Grad / GED

• Bachelor's or Equivalent Experience

• Experience: 2+ years

  Preferred Qualifications

  • None

Employee Group: Exempt
Employee Type: Full Time
Job Category: Energy Trading
Organization: NextEra Energy Marketing, LLC
Relocation Provided: Yes, if applicable

NextEra Energy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, age, national origin, religion, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetics, disability, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace.

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