Manager - Financial Risk Management

KPMG Australia is part of a global network providing extensive services across a wide range of industries and sectors. Our people collaborate, share their expertise and create innovation as we partner with clients to solve complex challenges, empower change, drive, disruption and growth. We look for talented people with the potential to make an extraordinary difference for our clients, our firm and our communities.

Your Opportunity

KPMG's Financial Risk Management (FRM) team provides specialist risk management services to a wide range of clients, spanning financial services, energy and corporate sectors. We have an exciting opportunity for a manager to join our growing energy and commodity risk service offering within FRM.

We help our clients with a large range of quantitative risk management services in the areas of energy and commodity trading functions.  As a Manager, you will:

• Model Development and Validation – you will work with our clients to develop and implement a range of risk management models.  You will also perform independent model validation for a range of trading and risk management models implemented by our clients.
• Derivative Valuation –assist clients to develop derivative valuation policies, methodologies, as well as a range of valuation models and tools.  We work both as independent advisors as well as specialists to KPMG's external audit teams to perform a range of derivative valuations
• Leverage your knowledge of Energy Trading Risk Management (ETRM) system vendors and system environments to provide our clients with advisory, benchmarking, implementation and post-implementation services.
• Develop or review existing trading and risk management policies and governance frameworks. 
• Trading Controls Assessment – Support our client's internal audit functions, to ensure that control frameworks around our client's trading operations are appropriately designed and operating effectively.

How are you extraordinary?

You are able to digest, distil, and communicate complex concepts in both written and verbal forms.

You are a strategic critical thinker, and love using that skill to solve complex problems and plan for the future.

You are able to quickly build strong relationships and network with a variety of stakeholders both internal and external.

Your Experience

We are looking for someone with experience working in energy and commodity trading risk management environments, and who has a keen interest in analytics and quantitative modelling, to join our growing team.  We want to speak to candidates with the following attributes:

• Experience and understanding of energy markets, trading and risk (essential)
• An interest in working on a diverse range of quantitative and qualitative modelling engagements across energy and commodity markets
• Experience using statistical packages such as SAS, R and Python (not mandatory);
• An ability to communicate and work with clients and team members, taking on mentoring and management opportunities as appropriate
• An ability to build trust with our clients and develop a network of contacts within the market.
• A demonstrated ability to solve new and technically challenging problems, either independently or as part of a small team
• Strong interpersonal and presentation skills.

Our people are focused on creating a diverse and dynamic environment that embraces and values differences. We value the variety of unique experiences, qualities and characteristics our people possess and we share and learn from each other.

We are proud to be consistently recognised as an employer of choice for women, and for our achievements in LGBT+ workplace inclusion.

Our commitment to 'Flexibility' allows our people to manage the changing demands of work, personal or family life.

KPMG is a professional services firm with global outreach and deep sector experience. We work with clients across an array of industries to solve complex challenges, steer change and enable growth. 

Our people are what make KPMG the thriving workplace that it is and what sets us apart is that we know great minds think differently. Collaborate with a team of passionate, highly skilled professionals who've got your back. You'll build relationships with unique and diverse colleagues who will provide you with the support you need to be your best and produce meaningful and impactful work in an inclusive, equitable culture.

At KPMG, you'll take control over how you work. We're embracing a new way of working in many ways, from offering flexible hours and locations to generous paid parental leave and career breaks. Our people enjoy a variety of exciting perks, including retail discounts, health and wellbeing initiatives, learning and growth opportunities, salary packaging options and more.

Diverse candidates have diverse needs. During your recruitment journey, information will be provided about adjustment requests. If you require additional support before submitting your application, please contact the Talent Attraction Support Team.

At KPMG every career is different, and we look forward to seeing how you grow with us.