Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd
Senior Market Risk Analyst
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Senior Market Risk Analyst
A growing UK energy business is hiring a Senior Market Risk Analyst to join its Leeds-based risk function. This is a strong opportunity for someone with a market risk, analytics, or data science background who wants to work in a commercially relevant role with high visibility across the business.
This is a standalone analyst position with no people management responsibility, but significant exposure to stakeholders across risk, commercial, finance, and trading-related teams. The role would suit someone who is technically strong, intellectually curious, and looking for a position that can act as a springboard into broader risk, commercial, or trading pathways over time.
The Role
You will support the identification, assessment, monitoring, and communication of market risks across a large customer-facing energy portfolio. The position combines day-to-day reporting ownership, quantitative risk analysis, and systems/process improvement.
Typical responsibilities are likely to include:
- Owning and developing key market risk reporting
- Monitoring positions, hedging activity, and risk limits
- Producing regular and ad hoc analysis, including variance analysis and Value at Risk
- Supporting the ongoing improvement and automation of risk reporting processes
- Contributing to risk system development and reporting consistency during system transitions
- Reviewing commercial opportunities and assessing them from a market risk perspective
- Working closely with stakeholders across risk, finance, and commercial functions
- Helping to document risk processes, controls, and procedures
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What they are looking for
They are looking for someone who is technically strong but also able to engage credibly with a range of stakeholders. In practice, this role leans heavily towards data science and analytical capability applied in a market risk setting.
Candidates are likely to be relevant if they bring:
- Experience in market risk, commodities, energy, banking, or insurance
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills
- Experience working with Python and SQL
- Exposure to reporting automation, analytics tools, or risk systems
- The ability to interpret data and explain insights clearly to technical and non-technical audiences
- A proactive, practical approach in a fast-moving environment
Useful additional experience includes:
- Energy market knowledge, particularly power, gas, or commodities
- Exposure to Dataiku, Power BI, Excel/VBA, or similar reporting and analytics tools
- Experience supporting reporting through a system migration or major process change
- Familiarity with VaR, hedging analysis, limit monitoring, or forward curve validation
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Candidate profile
This role could suit someone coming from:
- An energy or commodity markets background
- A banking or insurance market risk role
- A quantitatively focused analyst position with relevant exposure to risk, reporting, or trading environments
While the title is "Senior", the role is best suited to someone at an early-to-mid career stage who already has a solid technical base and is ready to step into a broader, more visible position. Around 2–3 years of relevant experience is likely to be a strong fit, although this is flexible for the right person.
Why apply?
- Join a business operating in a highly active and evolving energy market
- Work in a role with strong exposure to commercial decision-making and market activity
- Be part of ongoing automation and systems development within risk reporting
- Gain visibility across a broad internal stakeholder network
- Strong long-term progression potential into wider risk, commercial, or trading roles
Package
- Salary up to £60,000
- Hybrid working, typically 2 days per week in Leeds
- Strong internal development and progression opportunities
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