Head of Risk and Performance Controlling

Company Description

MET Group is an integrated European energy company, headquartered in Switzerland, with activities in natural gas and power, focused on multi-commodity wholesale, trading and sales, as well as energy infrastructure and industrial assets.

MET Group is represented in 15 countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine.

MET Group is present in 30 national gas markets and 39 international trading hubs. The Group has a significant end-consumer presence in Croatia, Italy, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, and Spain.

MET Group has 1000+ permanent staff. The company is owned 90% by MET employees and 10% by Keppel Infrastructure, a wholly owned subsidiary of Keppel Corporation*.

Job Description

• Own Risk Management Framework and Risk Processes for our wholesale and sales portfolios (across all relevant risk categories such as market, credit, liquidity, regulatory, operational risks)
• Lead a team of 2-3 FTEs: credit risk analyst, treasury & liquidity analyst, performance controlling analyst. Train, develop and empower the team members. Building and recruiting relevant capabilities.
• Ensure compliance with group standards and being interface to relevant group core functions.
• Structure, develop and review sales initiatives, business models, new products, hedging strategies (if applicable). Standardizing approval processes.
• Ensure appropriate pricing of customer business and ensure proper risk/return ratio. Being a core driver in improving our performance culture.
• Contribute to sales and entity strategy while developing and shaping the entity’s business and operating target model.
• Provide frequent performance and risk transparency/ reporting (on sales/ trading/ hedging positions & contracts). Lead and moderate performance dialogs.
• Support in enhancement and establishment of required CFO infrastructure elements for robust processes and portfolio valuation/ transparency
• Establish and improve robustness, appropriateness and automation of financial processes
• Steering of external consultants, auditors and regulatory authorities

Qualifications

• 5-8 years working experience within energy and commodity industry, ideally close to trading, sales, strategy, finance, controlling or risk
• (Energy) Market Risk Knowledge
• Either fluent in German or English 
• Demonstrated leadership, ownership, change and implementation skills
• Proactiveness, teamplay, reliable, eager to learn, hands-on Passion for digitalization and automation

Additional Information

Permanent contract; flexible working hours; hybrid mode