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Robert Half
Risk Analyst
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What they do
A Risk Consultant helps clients to evaluate risk and recommends strategies to mitigate or offset risks that could result in financial losses for a company or organization. May analyze risk in investments, business operations or technology systems at a company. May provide risk management consulting for life insurance, health insurance or other types of insurance companies.
$89,834 / year median in California
-5% projected decline
Job Description
We are looking for a Risk Analyst to support risk oversight and reporting activities for an energy trading portfolio in San Diego, California. This position focuses on analyzing market exposure, validating trading activity, and helping ensure risk reporting reflects the economic reality of both standard and complex transactions. The role works closely with trading, settlements, scheduling, accounting, and operations teams to strengthen control processes and support informed decision-making.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze commodity positions and price exposure independently, producing clear reporting that supports policy compliance and aligns with established risk tolerance.
- Review market, operational, and reporting concerns, escalate exceptions promptly, and present practical recommendations to address identified issues.
- Perform daily reconciliation and validation of trading activity, pricing inputs, and system records to confirm accurate risk representation.
- Assess portfolio exposure across transactions and develop a strong understanding of key drivers affecting valuation and performance.
- Examine structured and non-standard deals to verify complete capture of economic terms and confirm valuations are accurately reflected in risk reporting.
- Compare deal valuations generated by risk systems with front-office expectations and investigate material differences to support accurate summaries.
- Prepare reconciliation analysis linking initial deal assessments with accounting outcomes to confirm reporting consistency and financial accuracy.
- Partner with settlement, scheduling, trading, and operations teams to coordinate profit and loss actualization and maintain end-to-end data integrity.
- Contribute to the design and enhancement of reporting tools and serve as a knowledgeable resource for trading and risk management systems, including support for accurate deal entry and valuation oversight.