Risk Manager - Energy Trading

3 Months ago • 2-5 Years • Risk Management

Job Summary

Job Description

The Risk Manager will join the team in Aarhus to manage risks in IMC’s trading strategies. They will assess market, credit, liquidity, and operational risks, using analytical and technical skills to add value. Responsibilities include monitoring and analyzing risks, utilizing Python-based tools for stress testing, enhancing risk monitoring tools, ensuring compliance, and analyzing market developments. The role is based on the trading floor and involves working with power and gas traders to manage risks related to trading positions, renewable generation forecasts, market liquidity, and intraday price volatility. The candidate will also contribute to building and refining risk methodologies tailored to energy trading strategies.
Must have:
  • 2-5 years of experience in financial/energy market risk management.
  • Experience in FX, commodity, or energy trading.
Good to have:
  • Relevant energy market knowledge, understanding position limits, REMIT, EMIR, or MiFID II compliance.

Job Details

IMC is currently looking for a Risk Manager to join our growing team in Aarhus. Our risk team operates closely with the trading and technology teams to manage the inherent risks in IMC’s trading strategies across various products and markets. We are looking for someone who can bring risk management expertise with a critical, quantitative, and proactive hands-on approach. It will be your challenge to support the assessment and management of market, credit, liquidity, and operational risks. To excel in this role, you will use your experience, analytical skills, and technical ability to add value — not bureaucracy — to the business.

As a Risk Manager, you operate at the beating heart of our business: on the trading floor of IMC’s Aarhus office. Your work supports IMC’s critical day-to-day risk management activities, including the monitoring and analysis of our markets, as well as our credit, liquidity, and operational risks.

You will also contribute to IMC’s energy trading activities, working alongside power and gas traders to ensure risk controls are fit-for-purpose in a highly dynamic market. This includes managing risk related to short-term and long-term trading positions, exposure to renewable generation forecasts, market liquidity constraints, and intraday price volatility.

Your core responsibilities:

  • Assist in managing the day-to-day risk management functions, including monitoring and analysing market, credit, liquidity, and operational risks
  • Utilise Python-based tools and libraries for stress testing, scenario analysis, and to contribute to local risk management tooling
  • Develop and enhance real-time risk monitoring and reporting tools, ensuring robustness and high quality of technical solutions
  • Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and internal risk management policies
  • Analyse financial and energy market developments; help build and refine risk methodologies tailored to energy trading strategies

Your skills and experience:

  • 2–5 years of professional experience in financial or energy market risk management with a strong quantitative and technical background
  • Experience in FX, commodity, or energy trading, across OTC and exchange-traded markets
  • Relevant energy market knowledge, understanding position limits, REMIT, EMIR, or MiFID II compliance are plus"
  • Technical proficiency in a programming language for risk analysis (Python, MATLAB, or R)
  • Strong analytical skills and creative problem-solving ability
  • A proactive attitude and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment

About Us

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

 

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