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Global Trading Market Risk - Product Control Advisor

Location: 

Bangalore, KA, IN, 560066

Company Name:  ExxonMobil

 

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Job Description:

The Global Trading Market Risk - Product Control Advisor plays a critical role in supporting Global Trading (GT) by ensuring accurate valuation, risk measurement, exposure monitoring, and adherence to Global Trading and Market Risk standards and policies. This role provides independent oversight of P&L captures, market risk exposures, and portfolio performance for transactions executed by Trading Organization.  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. The Advisor is expected to deliver high‑impact insights, proactively identify emerging risks, and strengthen the overall control environment across a global trading portfolio. 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.

 

Key Responsibilities:

1. Product Control & Risk Advisory

  • 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.
  • Uphold and advocate core market risk principles, demonstrating strong courage of conviction, sound judgment, and transparent communication of risks and valuation issues.
  • Deliver high‑quality, time‑critical analytics and reporting covering:
    • Commercial s margin attribution and valuation drivers
    • Daily market risk exposures and portfolio impacts
    • Valuation and model assumptions
    • Limit usage, early‑warning indicators, and emerging trend analysis

2. Risk Measurement & Market Analysis

  • Independently assess and advise on risk profiles. Apply strong understanding of commodity supply/demand fundamentals, regional/locational spreads, and underlying market drivers.
  • Support stress testing, scenario analysis, and sensitivities to support risk decision making.

3. Quantitative & Technical Capabilities

  • Utilize quantitative methods such as Monte Carlo simulation, parametric VaR, options valuation (vanilla and exotic), and scenario stress testing.
  • 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.

4. Systems, Data Architecture & Digital Enablement

  • 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.
  • Demonstrate strong practical knowledge of market data and execution platforms (Bloomberg, Trading Technologies) for pricing verification, liquidity checks, and settlement accuracy.
  • Drive digital transformation initiatives, including data automation, risk analytics modernization, and integration of new tools or data sources.

5. Governance, Controls & Compliance

  • 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.

6. Cross Functional Support

  • 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.

7. 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.
  • Champion a culture of operational excellence, continuous improvement, and technical innovation across the Trading and Risk organizations.

 

Qualifications

Preferred Academic:

  • Bachelor's degree or above (Master's, MBA, CFA, etc.) in Quant Finance, Business Economic, Computer Science, Finance, Management.

 

Required Qualifications and skills

  • 10+ years of experience in petrochemical trading, financial or energy risk 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.
  • Willing to work during early afternoon to late evening (around 10pm) supporting London trading hours.

 

Job Group Capability

Finance

Job Group

Trading Market Risk & Compliance

Job Role Description

Responsible for monitoring trading activities for compliance with Market Risk Management policies and developing and maintaining tools for Global Trading activities. 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. 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

Job Role Responsibilities

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. Apply advanced market and commodity analysis to generate insight and detect anomalies to provide input to trading strategies and risk mitigation. 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
Trade Integrity & Dynamic 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. 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
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. Attest and recommend liquid and illiquid curve methodology against set principles. Leverage ETRM and analytical tools to deliver accurate, forward-looking risk assessments that support trading performance and capital efficiency
End-to-End Market Risk Process Mastery & Skill Evolution: Demonstrate deep understanding of the full market risk lifecycle - from trade capture and exposure modeling to risk reporting and limit governance - enabling swift and effective issue resolution across systems and stakeholders. Continuously build expertise in evolving market and commodity risk management techniques, including option trading, OTC swaps, and structured products. Stay ahead of industry developments to provide forward-looking insights and enhance the strategic value of risk advisory services
Systems Innovation & Capability Development: Champion cross-functional initiatives to elevate market risk capabilities through automation, system enhancements, and data infrastructure improvements. Drive continuous improvement by integrating best practices and emerging technologies, supporting highly automated, standardized, resilient, and trader-centric risk solutions

Functional Skills

Market Pricing Mechanisms
Financial Markets Execution
Energy Commodity & Derivative Trading
Energy Risk Analysis & Mitigation

 

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