Dynasty Power trades electricity, natural gas, and environmental products across the US, Canada, Mexico, and the EU.
Dynasty is active in all the major power trading markets including CAISO, Ontario IESO, ISO-NE, NYISO, PJM, MISO, SPP, AESO, and ERCOT.
Dynasty Power is currently looking to hire a Trading Risk Analyst intern. This position will be accountable for creating visual risk reporting and management tools, risk analysis via simulations, and general improvement of the risk framework.
This is a terrific opportunity for someone who has quantitative background, programming skills, has interest in financial and commodity markets, and adapts rapidly to changing priorities and business conditions.
This position is located in our Calgary office, part-time or full-time.
Responsibilities:
- Working closely with management on reporting trading risk and portfolio exposure.
- Working closely with traders on risk analyses to support their portfolio management activities.
- Create visual tools for risk reporting and monitoring.
- Design and support of the enterprise risk system which involves risk modeling initiatives, risk analytics for trading strategies, stress tests, attribution analyses, etc.
- In-house quantitative risk system maintenance and enhancements including risk metrics design, implementation, and visualization.
Qualifications:
- Be pursuing or recent university graduate with a degree in Statistics, Engineering, Mathematics, Economics, Financial Engineering, Computational Finance, or Computer Science.
- Great quantitative skills, and knowledge of risk assessment methods such as stress testing, scenario analyses, etc.
- Knowledge of statistics, including simulation methods such as Monte Carlo.
- High analytical ability.
- High attention to detail.
- Excellent learning ability and self-motivation in research.
- Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint.
- Strong Programming skills in VBA, Python, R, Matlab, etc.
- Experience with databases and ability to extract, clean and analyze data using SQL queries.
- Data Visualization skills in Power BI, Tableau, etc.
- Data Science / Data Management skills are desirable
- Knowledge of quantitative finance, risk modeling, futures, options, and Value-at-Risk concepts is desirable
- Presentation skills are a plus.
