Risk Analyst - Pricing
Motiva Enterprises LLC · Houston, TX · 2 wk ago
FinanceFull-time
Responsibilities
- Monitor, validate, and maintain automated daily price feeds from third-party market data providers into the ETRM.
- Ensure the accuracy and integrity of market pricing data, forward curves, and resulting valuation outputs within the ETRM environment.
- Independently validate exchange settlement prices, price reporting agency data, broker quotes, and internal transfer pricing inputs.
- Investigate and resolve pricing feed issues, data gaps, load failures, and pricing discrepancies within established control timelines.
- Perform end-to-end data quality reviews across pricing, valuation, trade, and settlement data.
- Design, develop, configure, and maintain forward and market curves for physical and derivative products.
- Maintain key ETRM configuration components, including: Holiday and expiry calendars, Delivery period structures, Pricing products, locations, benchmarks, and formula-based pricing relationships, Curve metadata, naming conventions, and valuation structures.
- Execute controlled manual price loads for broker quotes, internal pricing inputs, and exception scenarios, ensuring appropriate documentation and approvals.
- Identify, investigate, document, and escalate pricing exceptions in accordance with risk control procedures.
- Support setup, testing, and deployment of new pricing curves and market data configurations.
- Support daily and month-end derivatives valuation, exposure reporting, P&L validation, and position reporting processes.
- Investigate valuation and P&L variances related to pricing inputs, market curves, or system configuration.
- Support ad hoc analysis involving price histories, curve methodologies, valuation techniques, and market data trends.
- Support compliance with established risk controls, segregation-of-duties requirements, and audit standards.
- Develop and maintain policies, procedures, process documentation, and audit-ready controls.
- Partner with IT and system administrators during testing activities, system enhancements, and user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Identify opportunities to automate manual processes, strengthen data quality controls, and improve pricing workflows.
- Collaborate with Risk, Commercial, Supply Optimization, Scheduling, Finance, and IT teams to resolve data issues and improve pricing processes.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Engineering, Mathematics, Business, or a related quantitative field.
- 3+ years of experience in market risk, middle office, commodity analytics, product control, trading support, or a related commodity trading environment.
- Experience working in an Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) system; RightAngle experience preferred.
- Knowledge of forward curves, commodity pricing methodologies, valuation concepts, and market data management.
- Familiarity with commodity derivatives, including forwards, futures, and swaps.
- Experience with energy market pricing services and exchanges such as Platts, Argus, OPIS, ICIS, ICE, CME, and NYMEX.
- Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills.
- Advanced Excel skills and experience with Power BI or similar business intelligence tools.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage deadline-driven processes.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across multiple functions.