Risk Analyst

**Our Culture**:
At Noble Resources, our people have an entrepreneurial spirit, tenacity, and energy to hit the ground running from the word ‘go’.

We explore the trends and quirks of local economies and navigate the flux of international markets. We maintain an unwavering focus on staying relevant and being valuable to our customers.

Noble Resources strives to remain nimble and flexible to build dynamism and resilience in our people. We are committed to keeping our people engaged and motivated.

Our goal is to enable our people to see their work not just as a job, but an opportunity to make a real and positive impact.

**Diversity and Inclusion**:
We are committed to diversity and inclusion. We value the different perspectives that diversity brings and believe this strengthens our business and customer relationships.

Noble Resources encourages an open and collaborative working environment where everyone’s contribution is valued.

We make hiring decisions based on experience and potential, and pride ourselves on providing a meritocratic culture.

**Opportunities**:
A career with us is an opportunity to take ownership and make a real difference. We encourage an open, entrepreneurial, and collaborative working environment where our people drive the business, take action, and are impactful in everything they do.

We look for driven and self-motivated individuals to join our team.

Risk Analyst, Singapore

Job Purpose:
Noble Resources is a privately-owned Singapore based commodity trader, focussed on globally sourced energy and metals, sold primarily to Asian customers. We are focused on high standards of governance and risk management and have established risk management committees at the management and Board level. We believe that risk management is fundamental to delivering value to our customers, suppliers and investors.

The risk analyst will work with various back office and front office teams under the guidance of the CRO to analyse data and produce risk analysis, reports and develop the ability to present credibly on risk matters to senior management over time. The risk analyst will work in a small risk team across various risk areas to provide valuable commercial inputs on transactions and will suit someone who is highly numerate that is looking for an opportunity to grow their risk and analytical expertise and gain exposure to senior management in an international trading firm.

Key Responsibilities:
- Review, analyse and evaluate new and existing counterparty’s financial position, business track record, external factors and credit rating to give inputs into credit worthiness
- Produce credit risk reports explaining in commercial terms the credit risk recommendations, backed by data and analysis
- Work practically with business and operations teams to analyse transactions, including structured products and derivates
- Work closely with the finance team to obtain relevant inputs, and then monitor data and produce reports on credit risk exposures, daily trade reports, VAR and other risk indicators
- Work within existing review and approval processes, as well as working with the CRO to ensure from time-to-time that processes are appropriate and up-to-date for business requirements
- Actively participate in ad-hoc risk management projects or activities from time-to-time. There will be potential to grow exposure in other areas of risk, work with other functions and learn new things

Education and Qualifications:

- University graduate or equivalent. Ideally with qualifications in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Accounting, or similar

**Experience**:

- 3 - 5 years of relevant risk / finance experience ideally in a physical commodities trading organisation, MtM & AR exposures and freight
- Ideally some background in credit risk

**Skills**:

- Strong Excel skills are required
- Able to work accurately with lots of data under pressure and to deadlines
- Confident English language communicator
- Intellectually curious and passionate problem solver

**How to Apply