ExxonMobil India | Global Trading Market Risk - Product Control Advisor

Key responsibilities

• This role provides independent oversight of P&L captures, market risk exposures, and portfolio performance for transactions executed by Trading Organization.
• The position requires strong analytical capability, deep understanding of trading strategies, and the ability to provide meaningful insights on exposure, risk limits, market conditions, and overall portfolio risk.
• Serve as the primary technical expert and focal point for Product Control matters for stakeholders and the Market Risk team.
• Maintain a holistic, end‑to‑end understanding of trading strategies, optionality, exposures, arbitrage structures, and embedded risks across physical and financial portfolios.
• Work with various stakeholders to support timely and accurate trade capture.
• Support stress testing, scenario analysis, and sensitivities to support risk decision making.
• Oversee and validate physical and financial forward curves, ensuring consistent methodology and robust process controls.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance tools, dashboards, and automations that support Global Trading and Market Risk delivery.
• Drive digital transformation initiatives, including data automation, risk analytics modernization, and integration of new tools or data sources.
• Monitor trading activity to ensure alignment with Market Risk policies, operating standards, and financial controls.
• Participate in change management reviews and execution of new trading activities, strategies, markets, or products.
• Investigate and report limit breaches, unusual market movements, valuation anomalies, or exposure inconsistencies.
• Collaborate with Finance teams to support month end close, P&L validation, and reconciliation to earnings.
• Provide insights and stewardship on new trading strategies, emerging risks, and potential mitigations.
• Contribute to cross functional forums involving Trading, Market Risk, Finance, and Operations.
• Leadership, Coaching & Continuous Improvement.
• Lead strategic projects aimed at improving product control processes, risk measurement, valuation governance, and analytics capability.
• Mentor and develop colleagues on systems, valuation techniques, risk concepts, market analysis, and quantitative methods.
• Operating at the intersection of GT, Market Risk, and Finance, this position requires deep subject‑matter expertise in commodity markets, complex derivatives, valuation methodologies, and ETRM systems.
• Operate effectively within leading ERP/ ETRM platforms (e.g., SAP, Endur, Allegro), and participate in the design and testing of enhancements, new product setups, and risk modules.
• Champion a culture of operational excellence, continuous improvement, and technical innovation across the Trading and Risk organizations.
• Responsible for monitoring trading activities for compliance with Market Risk Management policies and developing and maintaining tools for Global Trading activities.
• Work with a dynamic, global team in a high-visibility role that provides advice to the Commercial organization on risk appetite, risk limit utilization and market risk mitigation strategies, and risk assessments and insights to senior management
• Engage consistently with refinery coordinators, schedulers, and traders to validate production data, inventory positions, and hedging signals, ensuring alignment between operational realities and trading decisions
• Act as a trusted risk partner to traders by providing timely alerts and recommendations, including Trade Money Management (TMM) and hedging options input, that safeguard against operational and financial risk

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or above (Master's, MBA, CFA, etc.) in Quant Finance, Business Economic, Computer Science, Finance, Management.
• Attention to detail with a strong process execution focus.
• Strong analytical skills, and knowledge of financial instruments.
• Experience with or knowledge of financial derivatives and risk evaluation and management techniques.
• Strong leadership, communications skills, and presence in discussions with senior management.
• Good understanding of decision analysis techniques, statistical modelling and comfort with modelling issues involving risk and uncertainty.
• Advanced financial and risk analysis capabilities.
• The ability to communicate, collaborate and work effectively with an international team environment.
• Courage of conviction, ability to constructively challenge approach as necessary after debate.
• Independently identify, measure, and report trading exposures, P&L and the market risk of the portfolio of transactions that are executed and owned by the Commercial organization.
• Market Risk Advisory & Strategic Stakeholder Engagement: Proactively deliver high-impact market risk insights through daily analysis and reporting of trading positions, exposures, TCM, and risk limit utilization.
• Exposure Management: Lead the daily oversight of exposure risk by maintaining rigorous position tracking and analysis.
• Identify and resolve trade booking discrepancies, data integrity issues, and abnormal exposure variations with urgency and precision.
• Analytical Excellence & Risk Methodology Leadership: Utilize and continuously refine advance risk analytics such as Value-at-Risk (VaR), stress testing, and scenario analysis to enhance portfolio transparency and decision-making.
• Continuously build expertise in evolving market and commodity risk management techniques, including option trading, OTC swaps, and structured products.
• Working relationships discussed herein do not necessarily represent a reporting connection, but may reflect a functional guidance, stewardship, or service relationship.
• Willing to work during early afternoon to late evening (around 10pm) supporting London trading hours.

ExxonMobil India

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