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.
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This is a unique opportunity to apply analytics, statistics, and commercial insight to help protect the company’s equity and ensure risks are properly identified, measured, and managed.
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 your 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
- Department
- Finance & Risk Management
- Locations
- São Paulo, Brazil
- Remote status
- Hybrid
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Sub department
- Market Risk Management
- Application deadline
- 01 November, 2025
About Danske Commodities
With fierce execution speed, innovative thinking and a tech-driven mindset, we unlock the potential of energy. Together with energy major Equinor, we have the vision and strength to accelerate the energy transition.
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