Director, Financial Controller

Senior Risk Analyst

Hours: Fulltime, 40 hours

Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The Position

As a Senior Risk Analyst you will play an important role in safeguarding and enhancing the performance of our trading, refining, and fuel supply business. Acting as a key link between risk management and commercial teams, you will analyse complex trading positions, interpret market movements, and ensure financial performance is accurately captured and understood. In this role, you will go beyond pure reporting: you will provide insight, challenge assumptions, and actively contribute to better decision-making. You will work closely with traders, finance, and senior management, gaining a comprehensive view of the value chain, from crude sourcing and refinery optimisation to logistics, biofuel blending and customer sales. This exposure will allow you to understand how market fundamentals, operational realities, and trading strategies come together. You will also play an important role in improving systems, processes, and reporting capabilities. Whether it’s developing new analytical tools, enhancing ETRM functionality, or identifying efficiencies in workflows, your contributions will directly shape how the organisation manages risk and measures performance. This is a highly visible role with regular interaction with senior stakeholders, including the VP Risk, and offers the opportunity to make a tangible impact in a fast-paced and evolving energy environment.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Analyse trading books to understand exposure to market price movements;
• Reconcile and attribute daily mark-to-market P&L movements to ensure control over financial reporting;
• Collaborate with traders to investigate unexpected P&L outcomes and help resolve discrepancies;
• Summarise and explain P&L movements over time, linking performance to positions and market developments;
• Monitor exposures against limits and Delegations of Authority;
• Develop new reports and analytical tools to generate business insights;
• Support improvements to ETRM systems, including testing new releases;
• Manage cost attributions, transfer pricing, and internal charges to ensure full transparency of performance;
• Support and challenge commercial stakeholders to drive sound risk-reward decision-making;
• Identify improvement opportunities and implement more efficient processes and ways of working;
• Work closely with business control, performance reporting, and accounting to ensure accurate P&L reporting.

Your Profile

• Minimum of 5 years’ experience in a similar risk or product control role within commodities, oil, or energy sectors;
• Understanding of accounting and financial reporting for physical commodities;
• Basic knowledge of risk metrics such as VaR and drawdown;
• Familiarity with derivatives including futures, swaps, and simple options;
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills;
• Knowledge of commodities markets, pricing, and physical trading, including understanding of FX exposure and hedging;
• Analytical and structured skills, with a strong attention to detail;
• A curious mindset, willing to ask questions and challenge assumptions;
• Reliable, accurate, and well-organised;
• Proactive, motivated, and a strong team player;
• Fluent in English, with strong communication skills;

Desirable Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Degree in a maths, scientific, engineering, business, economics or data subject.
• Understanding of biofuels markets, products, and tickets;
• ETRM knowledge, especially Allegro/Horizon;
• Skill in use of SQL, Python, and PowerBI to produce risk reports.

Our Offer

• Understanding how and why markets move and explain these movements in terms of underlying fundamentals.
• You gain a great view of how physical commodities markets actually operate by working directly with those in the market;
• Develop a deep understanding of the trading book strategies, assets and trade flows so that we can be sure they are accurately reflected in our systems and reports;
• Learning about biofuels, advanced feedstocks, coprocessing and other cutting edge emission reduction technologies. You make a real impact on carbon reduction;
• Visibility of full value chain optimization of the fuels complex: from crude sourcing, refinery optimization, cargo exports, inland barge & train logistics, biofuel blending, to customer fuel sales;
• Producing novel ad-hoc analysis and reports to support decision making by VP Risk and other senior management;
• The chance to shape and improve processes, your ideas shape our future and you can make a direct impact on how we run our company;
• An attractive workplace in the office in Rotterdam with development opportunities within an international, corporate environment;
• Attractive salary structures, as well as a (partly) employer-financed pension and bike plan etc.;
• Fun and supportive team environment that welcomes you to several social events.

Are you ready to take this exciting journey with us? Then we look forward to receiving your application – simply click on the “Apply now” button to get started. If you have any questions about this position, feel free to contact our recruiter, Sheila, at Sheila.Berens@varopreem.com . Would you like to learn more about our vision, mission and strategy? You can find more information here .

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