Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Resilient without measure, with a strong bias for action, I crave for a good challenge: the more complicated, the better. I love to lead from the front while ensuring psychological safety and room to grow for my team. While I am strongly motivated by momentum and achievement, I am equally passionate about leadership and human psychology. To achieve excellence, I strongly believe high standards must intertwine with a deeply empathetic approach. I am passionate about embedding a savvy risk and reward management culture within the firm. I enjoy bringing together an economic mind set with wider financial steering metrics such that technical concepts lend themselves to effective understanding and management of enterprise’s risks. My personal strengths include commercial acumen, holistic big picture thinking, energetic problem-solving attitude, quick understanding of complex topics translated into action. My philosophy is centered on disciplined commercial partnership and agile decision making to enable the business to succeed. As a manager and a leader, I focus on cultivating strong positive working relationships across functions.
bmp greengas is the biggest biomethan trading partner in Germany and an outlet of VNG AG. bmp consolidates all green gas activities of the group. With my teams I am looking after of all aspects of 1) Performance Controlling, Risk Management: Market (VaR, PaR), Credit (IFRS 9, CVaR, EL) , Operational, Liquidity Risks, Enterprise Rsik as well as Collateral Management. 2) Transformation, Operational excellence, Risk Culture, Business Development (New Markets) 3) Compliance: KYC, Regulatory topics, Data Protection etc. 4) Company Strategy, Quality processes, Portfoliomanagement, Financial planning 5) Sustainability, ESG, Certification (RedCert, ISCC etc.).
As part of the senior leadership team, advised on all aspects of risk managment, financial strategy and sustainability: - FX and IR risk management, the associated hedging process including hedge accounting topics as well as the definition of market strategies with the Hedging Desks. Credit Risk for onboarding of new brokers and banks. -Management of procurement risks associated with the inherent exposure of Aquila Clean Energy toward solar, wind, and battery storage. This includes the monitoring of CAPEX, creating scenarios for changing components within the supply chain (e.g. freight, storage) and the resulting liquidity impact, the assessment of EPC risk strategy including sub-contractor risks due to interface, timing, and execution risk. - Project risks: The management of escalation process for risk issues, following up on the progress against deliverables as well as of costs vs. budget, monitoring of KPIs and or other project trend indicators, root cause analysis for key issues to improve process (Operational Risks), discussion and definition of contingency measures for both cost and time (e.g. financing cost impact) or understand maximum delays / cost overruns that can be covered by the project. - Power market risk management and Credit Risk: Creating together with the market management function risks scenarios and understand the impact on the projects, determination of hedging measures (e.g. PPAs) as function of the market and the internal risk / corporate strategy, restructuring of hedges or positions as function of market developments, assessment of off-taker credit risk in line with internal credit view and external stakeholder (e.g. lenders). - ESG Risks: Developing with the ESG team a risk framework to account for ESG risks and regular exchange with development teams on ESG risks as well as the definition of risk mitigating measures.
- Setting the Credit Risk functions from scratch including VaR Mandates (later handed to Head of Market Risk), CvaR, OpRisk, - Credit Risk (global credit processes, credit policies, credit metrics, dynamic credit risk management, IFRS 9, expected loss, Credit VaR, relationship with external stakeholders, credit insurance) - Enterprise and OpRisk management and steering. OpRisk- Audit team exchange and addressing cross topics in the Operational and Executive Committee. - Economic capital (risk bearing capacity) as a tool to manage merchant activities. - Treasury Controlling: Cash flow forecasting, liquidity steering, collateral and bank reporting. covenants management, communication with external stakeholders. - Relationship management toward counterparts, sales customers, and shareholders. - Responsible for preparation and presentation toward risk committee and supervisory board
- Developing and supporting the strategic expansion of the trading activities of EnBW from risk perspective - Developing risk valuation strategy for new business initiatives like renewables (PPAs), LNG and other global business in line with the strategy of EnBW AG - Sparing partner to front office and Senior management reagrding risk related topics - Supporting and managing the new product approval process across the organization - Supporting on compliance, audit and operational risk topics
- Fundamental credit analysis and strategy (Traders, Renewables PPA, LNG, Wholesale, SME) - Developing of the Credit and Liquidity strategy across Uniper Group - Managing high profile cases with high probability of deafult and exotic commodity structures - Provision of ad-hoc analysis to front office and senior management - Preparation and submission of in-depth credit recommendation papers (ready for decision) to senior management and Risk Committee - Negotiation of credit clauses in bespoke and master agreements including CSA, ISDA, DRV, PPA, GSA, EFET, GTMA, MNA - Management of credit limits across physical and financial trading desks - Early identification and active mitigation of credit risks - Support of various stakeholders within the Uniper Group in financial related questions - Support and training of new team members