Overview

Lead enterprise risk frameworks, market analytics, and trading operations for major energy trading and commercial business across Australia.

Location: Melbourne

Focus: Market risk, credit risk, market analytics, ETRM transformation

D'Arcy Weil is representing a major integrated energy company operating substantial energy trading, generation, and commercial operations across Australia. They manage complex portfolios spanning wholesale electricity and gas trading, environmental certificates, renewable generation, and large customer supply contracts, supported by sophisticated trading and risk management platforms with advanced market analytics capability.

The business is undergoing significant transformation including trading system implementation, risk framework enhancement, market analytics expansion, and portfolio growth across energy trading and commercial operations. They require a strategic risk and analytics leader to elevate risk capability, drive system transformation, build market intelligence frameworks, and create collaborative partnerships across trading, commercial, and analytics functions.

They are seeking a Head of Risk & Trading Analytics to lead market risk, credit risk, market analytics, AML/KYC compliance, and risk transformation initiatives across their Australian operations. This executive role offers the opportunity to shape risk management frameworks and market analytics capability whilst partnering with front office teams to support business growth.

The Role

As Head of Risk & Trading Analytics, you will provide strategic leadership across risk frameworks, market analytics, and trading operations governing energy trading, generation, and commercial activities.



This role requires deep expertise in market risk and credit risk for energy trading environments, strong market analytics capability, proven experience leading trading system transformations, and the ability to build trust-based partnerships with trading and commercial teams whilst maintaining independent risk oversight.

You will lead market risk, credit risk, market analytics, and AML/KYC functions for energy trading and commercial operations, with oversight of related business unit risk frameworks. Leading teams of market risk analysts, credit/AML/KYC specialists, and market intelligence professionals, you will drive continuous improvement of risk mandates, accelerate trading system implementation, develop market analytics frameworks, and ensure robust risk governance.

This is an executive leadership position operating as both strategic risk advisor, market intelligence leader, and change agent, balancing prudent risk control with support for business development during a period of significant growth and transformation.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership:

- Contribute to energy trading and commercial platform development through evaluating and improving risk mandates and market analytics frameworks supported by robust metrics and limits
- Lead market risk, credit/AML/KYC, and market analytics teams,



coordinating with stakeholders across Australian and regional operations
- Build trust-based relationships with front office profit centres, balancing risk control with business development support
- Collaborate with wider risk and analytics community to leverage best practice and align frameworks
- Develop market intelligence capability supporting trading strategies and commercial decision-making
- Establish and maintain risk control setting and limits framework for energy trading, commercial operations, and related business units
- Define and deliver risk reporting to risk committees and stakeholders covering market risk, credit risk, AML/KYC, and liquidity risk
- Review and obtain approval for risk mandates annually or as required
- Ensure risk policies remain current and fit-for-purpose across market risk, credit risk, and AML/KYC
- Oversee risk analysis and drive approval processes for large transactions requiring escalated delegations
- Ensure independent benchmarking of parameters used for P&L; assessment including market prices, forward curves, and volatility
- Monitor market risk metrics providing high-quality reports to local and central stakeholders on recurrent and timely basis
- Develop detailed understanding of risk positions across power, gas, environmental certificates, and carbon markets
- Build market analytics capability including fundamental analysis, price forecasting, and market intelligence
- Develop analytical frameworks for market trends, supply-demand dynamics, and price formation
- Create tools for scenario analysis, stress testing, and market sensitivity assessment
- Provide analysis to maintain risks within approved management risk appetites
- Lead market in

📌 Head of Risk (Melbourne)
🏢 D'Arcy Weil
📍 Melbourne