Risk specialist

Skilled in risk management and curious about energy trading, global economics and finance? Join Danske commodities and help shape trading decisions that balance commercial opportunity with risk.

Here's what the job entails
Your primary function will be to provide value to your commercial colleagues (trading, origination, portfolio management) and to your risk colleagues based in Aarhus, Denmark.

You will act as key Risk representative, ensuring that risk mandates are followed and that commercial stakeholders receive insight into market risks arising from price and volatility changes.

Your key responsibilities include:

• understanding, explaining and reflecting on PnL changes, risk capital utilization changes, and risk-adjusted performance
• assessing key market risks arising from price or volatility changes, including regulatory, macro-economic and related risks
• ensuring smooth operation, reporting and analysis within of regular reporting packages and risk-specific tasks

Meet the team
As our new Risk Specialist, you will join our Market Risk Management team located in Denmark, serving as the Risk representative in our office in São Paulo.

The team ensures that commercial teams understand the risks associated with trading operations. As the second line of defense, we support trading teams in minimizing or optimizing their risk–reward ratio.

Transparency between the Brazilian and European teams is key to us, and we actively share information and knowledge across borders.

We are a team of six people with diverse backgrounds in mathematics, economics, and engineering — proving that varied expertise drives stronger performance.

We have an open and cooperative culture, and we strive every day to be the best risk specialists in the market.

But enough about us… over to you
Since you'll work closely with colleagues across the business, we're looking for someone with strong stakeholder management skills and a holistic mindset — someone who enjoys taking the lead when needed. You should be able to see the bigger picture, understand energy trading, global economics, and finance, and use that insight to spot patterns and confidently challenge trading decisions.

Furthermore, we imagine that you:

Hold a relevant educational background e.g. in mathematics, statistics, economics or finance

• have a minimum of 2 years' experience in a similar position
• possess strong knowledge of risk concepts, risk quantification and statistics, with a solid foundation in probability
• is quantitatively skilled in SQL and Excel
• are proficient in English – both spoken and written

Please note that prior knowledge of the energy sector is not required for this role.

We'll take good care of you
At Danske Commodities, we take great care of our people. Joining us means you'll get a lot of great perks – including social events, cultural experiences, tasty food and benefits to better your health, your life and your future.

Here are some of the benefits we offer our employees:

Flexible working hours including the option to work from home up to two days per week

Vast development opportunities with the help of your own individual development plan, access to our DC University with 50+ courses as well as remote courses through Harvard Learning

Global career paths as part of our parent company, Equinor's 20,000-strong international network

Great personal benefits including health insurance, benefit card and fitness allowance

Great parental leave conditions including 6 months of paid maternity leave and 30 days of paid paternity leave

Unlimited paid child's sick days because family comes first

Bonus scheme

Mobile phone with paid subscription

Drinks/snacks free snacks, quality coffee and tea are available all day

A modern office in the hear of Sao Paulo

…. and much more

Recruitment process and relocation
You can read more about our recruitment process here. Please note that if you are an international candidate, we will reimburse travel expenses in connection with potential interviews and support you with the relocation process.

What we're about
We're a tech-driven energy trading company present in +40 markets across five continents. Our +600 people are driven by a need to constantly better things. If you are too, we could very well be the right place for you. You'll join a collective of thinkers and doers. Aspiring chefs, runners, parents, beekeepers, gamers – the list goes on. We're highly specialised experts within our fields. But it's actually our diversity of ideas we're most proud of, which is why we continuously work on strengthening an inclusive culture where diverse teams thrive.

Our organisation is flat with an open-door policy. We expect you to care. About your work. About your own and your colleagues' collective successes. And about the difference we make at Danske Commodities. Together with our parent company Equinor, we have the vision and strength to accelerate the energy transition and make an impact. Like no other.

We've recently moved to our brand-new headquarters in Aarhus, Akson, located in Sydhavnskvarteret – a vibrant district where business meets culture. In this urban oasis, we enjoy state-of-the-art facilities – including our own barista coffee shop, modern fitness facilities and breathtaking views that make every day at the office even sweeter.