Market Risk Operation Analyst

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What’s The Role
Shell Trading and Supply is the world’s largest energy trading business and operates in every major energy market around the world.

It supports the Shell group businesses by trading natural gas, electrical power, crude oil, refined products, biofuels, chemical feedstocks, freight, and environmental products.

Shell Trading and Supply also manages one of the world's largest fleets of liquefied natural gas carriers and oil tankers and provides maritime expertise and logistics to Shell companies and external customers.

Our aim is to create value for Shell’s shareholders, customers, and counterparties across the globe by forging successful partnerships that generate mutually beneficial commercial opportunities.


The Market Risk Operations Team is responsible for ensuring that risk processes are operated efficiently and accurately, and that controls in both the risk area and front office are performed correctly.

The Market Risk Operations Analyst reports to the Manager of Market Risk Operations.

The candidate will need to be comfortable working independently with limited supervision at times and be able to thrive as part of a global team with members in the US, UK, India, and Singapore.

The goal is to ensure that all data needed for portfolio valuation is complete, timely and accurate, and that systems and controls are in place to ensure compliance with the global Risk Management framework.


What You’ll Be Doing
Maintain Market Risk Data: Ensure accurate and up-to-date observable valuation inputs like exchange prices, broker quotes, volatilities, and correlations.


Forward Curve Expertise: Collaborate with analysts and traders to build and implement optimal forward curves in trading systems.


Valuation Review: Regularly assess and update assumptions in valuation curves to maintain relevance and accuracy.


System Testing & Feedback: Manage user testing for system enhancements and provide feedback to stakeholders.


Process & Data Excellence: Document market risk reference data processes, identify bottlenecks, and embed error‐checking for reliable outputs.


Digitalisation & Automation: Support initiatives to automate workflows and eliminate manual tasks across the business.


Process Mapping & Simplification: Clarify roles, document processes, and streamline interfaces for efficient risk operations.


End‐to‐End Deal Risk Management: Understand and manage risks throughout the lifecycle of deals, collaborating with functional experts.


Risk Governance & Best Practices: Uphold Shell’s commodity trading risk management standards and ensure Risk acts as an independent control function.


Communication & Collaboration: Demonstrate strong communication skills, challenge constructively, and work effectively across global teams and time zones.


What You Bring
Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Economics, Mathematics, Science, Engineering or IT, or workplace experience in the energy trading industry.


Candidate must have minimum of three (3) years working experience within a trading, financial or risk management organisation.

Ideal for early to mid level professionals.


Must have legal authorisation to work in Singapore on a full‐time basis for anyone other than current employer.


Knowledge of financial, commodity and energy markets, derivative instruments, and hedging which could have been gained in a Market Risk, Product Control or Trade Control roles.


Excel skills, such as pivot tables, lookups, VBA macros.

SQL and Python an advantage, other coding languages can also be useful.


Experience with Endur, DEX or comparable energy trading risk management system.


Reliable, dependable and disciplined.

Demonstrates excellent attention to detail, is methodical and organised.


Resilient when working under pressure with the ability to prioritise tasks to meet key deadlines.


Learner mindset: Exhibits innovation and creativity, with excellent problem‐solving capabilities.


Acts as a trusted partner of the business.

Good judgement to provide advice, question discrepancies and raise issues when necessary.


Continuous improvement mindset: Utilises tools to streamline and automate work processes to boost efficiency.


Scientific mindset: Identifies, investigates, analyses, research, discusses, records and resolves issues systematically.


What We Offer
Progress as a person as we work on the energy transition together.


Continuously grow the transferable skills you need to get ahead.


Work at the forefront of technology, trends and practices.


Collaborate with experienced colleagues with unique expertise.


Achieve your balance in a values‐led culture that encourages you to be the best version of yourself.


Benefit from flexible working hours, and the possibility of remote/mobile working.


Perform at your best with a competitive starting salary and annual performance‐related salary increase – our pay and benefits packages are considered to be among the best in the world.


Take advantage of paid parental leave, including for non‐birthing parents.


Join an organisation working to become one of the most diverse and inclusive in the world.

We strongly encourage applicants of all genders, ages, ethnicities, cultures, abilities, sexual orientation and life experiences to apply.


Grow as you progress through diverse career opportunities in national and international teams.


Gain access to a wide range of training and development programmes.


We’d like you to know that Shell has a bold goal: to become one of the world’s most diverse and inclusive companies.

You can get to know more about how we’re working towards that goal,
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We are committed to attracting a broader and more diverse pool of candidates.

If this position doesn’t feel like the perfect fit for your qualifications right now, we’d still love to hear from you.

Consider creating a profile in our Talent Community so we can keep you in mind for future opportunities that may align with your skills.


Shell in Singapore
Shell is an international energy company that uses advanced technologies and takes an innovative approach to help build a sustainable energy future.

Here in Singapore, Shell has a long history and is one of the country’s largest foreign investors.

It has businesses spanning trading and marketing of liquefied natural gas; refining, trading, marketing and shipping of oil products, lubricants and chemicals; low carbon solutions; and operating a network of service stations through retailers, as well as electric vehicles charging.


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