The posting
Why explore
- An opportunity to work on shaping and delivering the key strategic priorities for one of the world’s largest companies in new and exciting areas
- Support our global commercial business in Singapore
- Based in Singapore, a global commercial hub for Rio Tinto
About the role
We're on the lookout for a Senior Advisor - Market Risk as part of operationalizing and building out the Market Risk Management Framework for Rio Tinto Commercial. The role will work very closely with the Sales & Marketing, Digital and Finance teams.
Reporting to the Manager - Market Risk, you will:
- Perform detailed data analytics to identify and explain risks and P&L drivers.
- Create and report daily mark-to-market based P&L.
- Support implementation of Risk Management Framework around VAR and Stress Test and other analysis applications.
- Work closely with Trading & Sales and Finance teams to report and analyses performance, trading risk positions and Value at Risk on a daily/weekly basis.
- Support due diligence, review and implementation on new transactions and/or trading activities.
- Continuous improvement / streamlining of the reporting processes.
- Active communication with the rest of Market Risk team in Singapore office.
About you
To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:
- Degree in Business, Finance, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering or equivalent.
- At least 3 years of relevant experience in physical commodity trading and risk management.
- Good understanding of VAR methodologies and risk measurement.
- Experience of programming/database languages in Python / VBA / SQL / R.
- Good understanding of Product Control and Risk Reporting.
- Good interpersonal skills and a team player.
- Contribute to the creation of trading performance analysis and implement/ operationalize this.
- Be part of transformation efforts to establish certain middle office processes, including with trading, as well as policies, procedures and support the build out the market risk management framework for commercial.



