Market Risk Analyst
Wichita, KS 
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Posted 13 days ago
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INVISTA is seeking a contribution-minded Market Risk Analyst to join our CFO organization in Wichita, KS. This role will directly report to our Global Risk Leader. In this role, you will partner with commercial business teams to provide key support that optimizes the balance of risk and reward within both market risk and credit risk. A successful candidate must enjoy collaborating with others, providing critical decision support, and developing insightful analysis. This position will engage, challenge, and provide fulfillment to a candidate with strong analytical, economic thinking, mathematical/statistics, and communication skills.


What You Will Do

  • Provide both daily and monthly insights into market risk for raw materials and finished goods using value-at-risk calculations.
  • Understand how foreign exchange (FX) markets impact the profitability of the firm as well as report FX changes to senior leadership.
  • Provide improvements to current market risk models, including validating and implementing new statistical methods and risk metrics. This includes reporting and/or dashboards to assist with analytics and risk reporting.
  • Prepare, develop, and own various risk reports and insights on trading strategies within liquid and non-liquid trading portfolios.
  • Review counterparty financial statements, industry data, and geopolitical intelligence to develop a strong point of view, determine creditworthiness, and effectively communicate risks on a company's competitive position.
  • Collaborate with other members of the INVISTA Risk Team to advance team priorities that help progress the INVISTA vision. Partner with INVISTA business leaders, supply chain, and Koch Industries (KII) resources to develop business recommendations and advance key strategies.
  • Steward the KII risk philosophy and effectively communicate it to business leadership. Provide commercial teams transparency to portfolio performance and key risks to help drive risk-adjusted decision-making.
  • Continuously seek opportunities through innovation for process improvement and system optimization. Prioritize and demonstrate time-management and organizational skills.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Experience in market risk, credit risk, or other relevant work experience (Ex: financial analysis, credit analysis, economic modeling, portfolio management, risk, treasury, accounting, or another related field)
  • Experience with Microsoft Office tools including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel (Ex: pivot tables, data analysis, formula creation, etc.)
  • Ability to travel 10%-15% of the time (approximately one week per quarter)
  • This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship

What Will Put You Ahead

  • 3+ years of experience in market risk, credit risk, or other relevant work experience
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or Business
  • Experience in evaluating market risk including but not limited to understanding commodity markets, value-at-risk calculations, and inventory management
  • Experience with programming languages (Python, R, VBA, etc.)
  • Robust statistical knowledge including probability theory, monte-carlo simulations, and the ability to learn new statistical methods
  • Experience working in an international business
  • Previous supervisory experience
  • Experience with data visualization tools (Ex: Tableau, Alteryx, Power BI, Denodo, etc.)

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.


Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.


Who We Are

As a Koch company, INVISTA has a long history of working to make the world around you a better place. From parts for the automotive industry to medical equipment, air bags, food packaging and clothing, our ingredients in the nylon 6,6 and polypropylene value chains help bring many of life's essential products to market.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.


Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.


Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please visit the following website for additional information: http://www.kochcareers.com/doc/Everify.pdf


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Job Summary
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Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
3+ years
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