Senior Market Risk Analyst

A growing UK energy business is hiring a Senior Market Risk Analyst to join its Leeds-based risk function. This is a strong opportunity for someone with a market risk, analytics, or data science background who wants to work in a commercially relevant role with high visibility across the business. This is a standalone analyst position with no people management responsibility, but significant exposure to stakeholders across risk, commercial, finance, and trading-related teams. The role would suit someone who is technically strong, intellectually curious, and looking for a position that can act as a springboard into broader risk, commercial, or trading pathways over time.

The Role

• Support the identification, assessment, monitoring, and communication of market risks across a large customer-facing energy portfolio.
• Own and develop key market risk reporting.
• Monitor positions, hedging activity, and risk limits.
• Produce regular and ad hoc analysis, including variance analysis and Value at Risk.
• Support the ongoing improvement and automation of risk reporting processes.
• Contribute to risk system development and reporting consistency during system transitions.
• Review commercial opportunities and assess them from a market risk perspective.
• Work closely with stakeholders across risk, finance, and commercial functions.
• Help document risk processes, controls, and procedures.

What they are looking for

• Someone who is technically strong but also able to engage credibly with a range of stakeholders.
• Experience in market risk, commodities, energy, banking, or insurance.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
• Experience working with Python and SQL.
• Exposure to reporting automation, analytics tools, or risk systems.
• The ability to interpret data and explain insights clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• A proactive, practical approach in a fast-moving environment.

Useful additional experience includes:

• Energy market knowledge, particularly power, gas, or commodities.
• Exposure to Dataiku, Power BI, Excel/VBA, or similar reporting and analytics tools.
• Experience supporting reporting through a system migration or major process change.
• Familiarity with VaR, hedging analysis, limit monitoring, or forward curve validation.

Candidate profile

This role could suit someone coming from:

• An energy or commodity markets background.
• A banking or insurance market risk role.
• A quantitatively focused analyst position with relevant exposure to risk, reporting, or trading environments.

While the title is "Senior", the role is best suited to someone at an early-to-mid career stage who already has a solid technical base and is ready to step into a broader, more visible position. Around 2–3 years of relevant experience is likely to be a strong fit, although this is flexible for the right person.

Why apply?

• Join a business operating in a highly active and evolving energy market.
• Work in a role with strong exposure to commercial decision-making and market activity.
• Be part of ongoing automation and systems development within risk reporting.
• Gain visibility across a broad internal stakeholder network.
• Strong long-term progression potential into wider risk, commercial, or trading roles.

Package

• Salary up to £60,000.
• Hybrid working, typically 2 days per week in Leeds.
• Strong internal development and progression opportunities.