Market Risk Analyst

Your Job

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 ...