Risk Management Specialist

1 day ago


Houston, Texas, United States Calpine Full time
Job Summary

Calpine Corporation is a leading generator of electricity from natural gas and geothermal resources. As a Risk Management Specialist, you will play a key role in developing strategies to improve risk management within the organization.

You will utilize analytical tools and reports to create and distribute market risk information to various stakeholders, including senior management and accounting teams.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Supporting senior staff in developing 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.
  • Assisting with ongoing monitoring of portfolio risk with weekly commentary on utilization, new activity, market events, and liquidity.
  • Adhering to risk management policies with a focus on maintaining effective controls for trading and business processes.
  • Supporting compliance and audit activities.
  • Interacting with traders, originators, accounting staff, and management to understand and answer questions about portfolio positions, changes, and risk factors.
  • Collaborating with the IT organization to improve the underlying risk system infrastructure (models, calculations, data flows, reports, etc.).

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative discipline such as business, engineering, or mathematics.
  • 0-2 years of experience in the energy sector.
  • Strong model-building skills and experience with analytical and data manipulation applications such as Excel, SQL, Visual Basic, R, and other programming languages.
  • Ability to analyze large volumes of data and present results in a clear, concise written and oral form.
  • Team player with a results-oriented approach.

Calpine is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.



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