At a utility, energy company, or commodity-trading firm, you analyze risks in energy markets — price, volume, basis, weather, and counterparty risk — supporting trading decisions, hedging strategies, and risk-reporting that energy operations and trading rely on.
Most weeks involve market analysis, position monitoring, and risk-reporting work — running price-and-volume sensitivity analyses, monitoring positions against risk limits, supporting hedge-program decisions, prepping risk reports for trading management and risk-committee review. Risk-rating accuracy and limit compliance anchor the operating measures.
What complicates the day-to-day is the multi-dimensional risk in energy markets — physical operations, financial trading, weather, regulatory action, and geopolitical events all touch energy-risk exposure, and analysts navigate the dimensions while keeping the analytical work moving. Variance across employers shapes the work: utilities run energy-risk analytics around physical-and-financial portfolios; trading-focused firms run more financial-market exposure; oil-and-gas producers run risk around physical hedging.
The role tends to fit people analytically deep, comfortable with multi-factor risk modeling, and steady under market-volatility periods. ERP, FRM, and CFA credentials anchor advancement. The trade-off is the market-driven calendar — energy markets move continuously, and analytics work follows the rhythm of the markets and the trading desks the analysts support.
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View all Business Operations roles →At a utility, energy company, or commodity-trading firm, you analyze risks in energy markets — price, volume, basis, weather, and counterparty risk — supporting trading decisions, hedging strategies, and risk-reporting that energy operations and trading rely on.
Median pay for an Energy Risk Management Analyst is about $106K nationally, with the field ranging roughly from $62K to $182K depending on experience, employer, and metro (BLS).
Employment in this field is projected to grow about 6.5% through 2034, with roughly 56,320 people working in it today (BLS).
Closely related roles include Risk Management Director, Energy Director, and Senior Energy Risk Management Analyst.
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