Chief Risk Officer

Job Description Chief Risk Officer \n \n Our client, a growing energy and commodity trading firm, is seeking a Chief Risk Officer to serve as the senior-most independent risk leader in the organization. \n \n Chief Risk Officer Responsibilities: \n \n \n * Own enterprise-wide risk management, including market, credit, liquidity, and operational risk for a physical and financial energy trading business \n * Define and govern the firm's risk appetite, enterprise risk management (ERM) framework, policies, and limit structures \n * Provide independent oversight and challenge to trading leadership on strategy, positioning, new products, and capital allocation \n * Build, mentor, and scale a multi-disciplinary risk organization spanning market risk, credit risk, quant risk, and middle office \n * Direct the firm's risk technology and model governance agenda, including ETRM/CTRM strategy, curve validation, and IPV standards \n \n \n Risk Experience/Requirements: \n \n \n * 15+ years of progressive risk leadership within energy or commodity trading (power, gas, LNG, liquids, environmental products, or renewables) \n * Prior experience as a Chief Risk Officer, Deputy Chief Risk Officer, or Head of Risk at a trading firm, merchant trader, utility, IPP, fund, or bank commodities platform \n * Deep expertise of market and credit risk at the framework level: Value at Risk (VaR), stress testing, PFE, collateral strategy, and master agreements (ISDA, EEI, NAESB) \n * Knowledge of North American power markets and/or global gas and commodity markets \n * Track record of building and scaling risk organizations through periods of growth \n