Trafigura · 1 week ago
Risk Analyst - Natural Gas
Houston, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
3+ years expTrafigura is a leading global commodities trading firm, and they are seeking a Natural Gas Risk Analyst to enhance the accuracy and timeliness of daily trading results. The role involves maintaining core PnL data, producing daily trading reports, and ensuring effective risk management practices within the natural gas sector.
IndustrialMineralOil and GasShippingSupply Chain Management
Responsibilities
Ability to independently justify the economics in each trading strategy in the natural gas sector
Understand the forward curve on daily basis for physical and derivative markets to current position and to explain the impact on the trading PnL
Produce daily commentary for board of directors / traders to explain the daily changes in the trading profit and loss due to market changes/change in estimated/actual economics for the physical and derivative natural gas trading strategies
Analyse exposure and report profit and loss including derivatives and physical exposure
Monitor data entry of new business in the Mark to Market System
Ensure all market price risk is captured and hedge actions executed
Assess implication of changes to future physical deliveries, report, and discuss impact of hedge strategy
Creation and maintenance of ad-hoc reports to assist in any area of position reporting /structure/hedging
Full responsibility of data integrity held within the trading systems
Produce comprehensive lookback analysis of Trading strategies, combining key risk metrics with review of historical performance
Liaising with other key departments of Credit, Tax, Accounting and Scheduling to ensure smooth functioning of the day-to-day business translates into accurate reporting on a daily basis
User Acceptance Testing (UAT) with IT to constantly improve proprietary Trading and Risk Management systems. Ensuring all basis risk and volumetric positions are correct and appropriate hedge actions taken, and that all executions are correctly allocated within trading system
Qualification
Required
Bachelor or Master's degree in Finance or related field
Minimum of 3 years' exposure to market risk management in Energy
Minimum of 3 years of experience in physical & derivatives Energy markets inclusive of its underlying structures and instruments, preferred in the Natural Gas sector
Solid understanding of trading models and trading strategies and exposures that arise out of them
Concrete understanding of Trading activities
Experience in Trading and Risk Management System, preferred Allegro/Horizon
Preferred
Python / SQL coding skills
Natural Gas exposure
Cross-product or Multiple Region market analysis exposure
Company
Trafigura
Trafigura is a commodity trading company that facilitates the distribution of commodities such as metals, minerals, and energy.
10001+ employees
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2024 (2)
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$21.01BKey Investors
Korea Trade Insurance CorporationAbu Dhabi Exports OfficeSaudi EXIM
2025-10-08Debt Financing· $3.4B
2025-07-29Debt Financing· $200M
2025-05-06Debt Financing· $390M
Leadership Team
Stephan Jansma
Chief Financial Officer
Maciej Sciazko
Head Mining Operations
Recent News
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