Market Risk Specialist

Te Whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity  

This new Market Risk Specialist role is part of our transformed Finance function, sitting at the heart of our Market Risk team. Created to deepen technical expertise, boost resilience, and ensure critical market risk knowledge is shared, it helps reduce reliance on any one person, making our mahi stronger together for the future of Aotearoa.  

In this role, you’ll work where compliance, governance, modelling, and analysis intersect. Your insights will directly shape trading activity, executive choices, and board-level reporting. You’ll own market risk models and tools, champion continuous improvement, and help embed market risk thinking across our Finance and Trading teams, enabling confident decisions that support the sustainable operation of Contact and the energy future of Aotearoa.  

This is a role for someone who thrives on complexity, values precision, and wants their mahi to have genuine impact—supporting our trading activities and the wider business for a better Aotearoa.  

What you’ll be doing  

• Owning and enhancing market risk models, analytics, and reporting 
• Monitoring trading portfolios to ensure compliance with risk limits and policies 
• Producing accurate, insightful, board ready market risk reporting 
• Supporting governance forums, including committee and board papers 
• Partnering closely with Trading, Finance, and senior leaders 
• Leading and contributing to initiatives that lift capability, efficiency, and robustness across the Market Risk function 
• Acting as a technical leader—sharing knowledge, coaching others, and lifting standards across the discipline  

Qualifications

Ko wai koe | About You    

You’re naturally inquisitive and bring a disciplined approach as a technical specialist. You thrive on tackling complexity, enjoy working as part of a team, and are driven by the opportunity to make a meaningful impact. You don’t need to tick every box, but you’ll likely bring: 

• You bring proven depth in market risk, middle office, or another quantitative field where your expertise has made a real difference. 
• Your analytical and modelling skills are second to none, with an eye for detail that ensures nothing slips through the cracks. 
• You’re confident connecting with senior leaders, translating technical concepts into clear, meaningful insights that drive decisions. 
• You operate with a mindset firmly rooted in governance, control, and quality—always raising the bar for yourself and those around you. 

Bonus points if you’ve also got 

• Experience in the electricity or commodities sector 
• Exposure to risk policy development or modern analytical tooling 
• Experience working in matrixed or value stream based environments 

Most importantly, you’re curious, open to challenge, and enjoy learning alongside others. Sharing your expertise, lifting capability, and growing together. 

Additional Information

Contact is not a place you’ll stagnate. We offer flexible working, strong learning and development opportunities, and a supportive, inclusive culture where your expertise is valued. You’ll work on complex, meaningful problems and have the chance to shape how market risk evolves across the organisation. 

We support our people to work how, where and when works the best. This role would be best placed in Auckland, Tauranga or Wellington to be close to the people you will work closest with.  

We also have bunch of other perks like free health insurance cover, boosted KiwiSaver, access to Contact Shares, a ‘Good to be Home’ annual payment toward your home set up & wellbeing, a trail-blazing parental leave policy, twice yearly payments towards our products if you’re a Contact customer, and more! 
 
Applications close on Sunday 29th March, but just like peak demand, great talent surges early — so if this role sparks your interest, power up your application now! 
 
We love a good story at Contact, it’s what keeps our energy flowing! If you’ve got one that connects with this role, send it our way. 

Here at Contact Energy (Te Mata Hiko), we know our strength lies in developing a sense of belonging - one that helps us attract and retain people with a broad range of perspectives and experiences.

We’re committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to bring their whole selves to work. Our goal is to reflect the diversity of our customers and communities to help build a better Aotearoa New Zealand.

We have a rich community of talented people that we support to thrive at Contact.

Our inclusive hiring process is designed to embrace the diversity of Aotearoa New Zealand, ensuring a wide range of perspectives are included in our decision-making and helping reduce bias along the way.

The wellbeing of our kaimahi is super important to us.

We use employee insights to offer a range of initiatives and resources to support physical, mental, financial and emotional wellbeing – including flexible working arrangements, employee network groups and a market-leading parental leave policy.

At Te Mata Hiko, we want everyone to thrive. We welcome applicants far and wide - of every age, stage, background, and pride. Join us and be part of a team that values your passion and attitude just as much as your experience and skills.

Please note, only candidates with the right to live and work in New Zealand will be considered for this role.

Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet 60% of the criteria, women and those in underrepresented groups tend to only apply if they tick every box. We're not about box ticking, so if you think you have what it takes but don't meet everything stated above, please still get in touch. We'd love to kōrero.

Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) does not accept any CVs received from recruitment agencies where a formal engagement has not been confirmed and agreed to with our Talent team. In the event that unsolicited CVs are submitted by recruitment agencies, Te Mata Hiko (Contact Energy) reserves the right to contact these candidates directly and consider them for current/future vacancies without any financial obligation to the recruitment agency in question. This will also apply to any CVs sent directly to line managers.