Senior Commodity Risk Management Specialist

As Commodity Risk Management Specialist, you provide advice on the mitigation of price and volume risks. You advise on (and approve) Eneco commodity contracts. This includes power purchase agreements, tolling agreements, wind/solar assets and customer deals. You will do this by developing commodity hedge proposals together with the Trade department and do risk assessments for business cases of new activities and products.

You will participate in the execution of periodic stress tests and sensitivity analyses for Eneco in the area of commodity risks. Your analytical and programming skills will enable you to keep the Financial Risk Management risk models up to date.

In addition, you keep an eye on the mandates and limits and if necessary you escalate this to the Commodity Risk Team and CFO. You will participate in designing and setting up the commodity risk management policy and mandates for the various business units of Eneco.

We are looking for multiple candidates with varying experience from junior to senior.

You work together as one team to deliver the plan. You create an atmosphere in where you can exchange insights and opinions with colleagues and take accountability for contributing to the common plan. In addition, the following is important:

• You have a relevant completed WO degree, preferably in a quantitative study.
• Knowledge of and experience with Financial Risk Management methods and techniques is a plus;
• Five years experience in  a quantitative commodity risk function;
• Knowledge of and experience in the (Dutch) energy market is a plus.
• You possess good analytical skills, you can quickly get to the root cause of the problem and are able to think along with solutions;
• You work accurate and have a proactive and solution-oriented attitude. You can also cope well with change;
• In addition, you have good communication skills, are persuasive and are a team player.
• Knowledge of Matlab and/or Python is a plus;

• Reviewing/approving new contracts and business proposals, such as purchasing contracts or new customer propositions. You do this by participating in deal teams and such;
• You are the first point of contact for the Business Units for risk advice;
• You ensure that the activities are carried out within the mandate agreements. You keep the mandates up to date, so that the organization can develop further;
• You maintain and further develop the risk models within FRM;
• You review and/or validate the most important reports of Eneco Energy Trade.

You will have a flexible workspace at our modern, bright headquarters in Rotterdam. You can get to your desk from the Rotterdam Alexander train station in just a few minutes. Although it might take a little longer if you chat with a colleague on the way. At Eneco we work hybrid. That means you'll be working partly from home.

You'll be joining the Financial Risk Management department, part of Eneco Finance & Risk. You'll work alongside (currently) nine smart, professional financial risk managers. Each of them is a well-educated specialist with a technical or financial background (economics, engineering, FRM, CFA), who work with the business to shape the energy transition through active risk management.

Do you feel at home among colleagues who are bursting with ambition, take good care of each other and want to go full speed ahead to achieve our climate objectives? Then you'll fit in at Eneco.