Ian Scott
Lead Derivatives Trader | Portfolio Manager | Experienced Risk Manager | Financial and Commodity Markets Expertise
- Role
- Director of Risk Management and Trading at Yardi
- Location
- Dallas, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ian Scott
Accomplished derivatives trader, risk manager, and portfolio manager highly experienced in global and domestic markets, utilizing software and technology to enhance trading strategies, analyze risk and leading diverse teams with a focus on collaboration. Proficient in fixed income markets, commodity markets, risk management, options trading, portfolio management, and futures trading. Adept at building relationships with brokers through consistent market-making and enhanced negotiation in the OTC markets. Received a double Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Psychology from the University of Michigan and a Master of Science in Analytics from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Experience
Director of Risk Management and Trading
Mar 2023 — Present · Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US
Developed processes to produce rates for several thousand pricing items which are the basis of our product offerings• Collaborated with the Legal department in the negotiation and execution of ISDA Agreements with several counterparties• Helped guide the development of internal hedge and usage reporting • Trade a combination of options, swaps, and forward contracts via the OTC market to hedge risk exposure of the natural gas and electricity positions.• Developing dynamic hedging strategies to better mitigate the long term risk of the electricity and natural gas books of business.• Responsible for the procurement and allocation of renewable energy certificates for compliance and voluntary purposes.• Maintain and leverage third party pricing models for electricity and natural gas products to construct custom rates and terms for municipal aggregations and individual accounts.• Work closely with the finance department on REC accruals, cost of goods sold estimates, and invoice reconciliation.• Place monthly bids in the FTR auction which mitigate the locational marginal price risk in the electricity markets.• Responsible for setting the default residential and CSA rates used by the sales team.• Leverage analytics on the Sisense platform via SQL to develop risk and general business metrics reporting.• Use Asana to manage projects and collaborate across company divisions.• Use third party forecasting platforms (Powwr) to analyze risk exposure, account attrition and addition, and billing metrics.• Lead monthly meetings with the Risk Committee detailing the current risk reporting, hedge performance, REC purchases, and market prices.
Education
University of Michigan
Bachelors, Economics and Psychology
2000 — 2004
Georgia Institute of Technology
Master's of Science, Analytics
Skills
- Trading Systems
- Cqg
- Capital Markets
- Financial Markets
- Trading
- Investment Banking
- Arbitrage
- Bonds
- Commodity
- Interest Rate Derivatives
- Quantitative Analytics
- Financial Risk
- Currency
- Economics
- Etfs
- Volatility Arbitrage
- Traders
- Portfolio Management
- Quantitative Finance
- Trading Strategies
- Market Risk
- Quantitative Analysis
- Proprietary Trading
- Valuation
- Retail Management
- Electronic Trading
- Strategy
- Market Making
- Market Analysis
- Options Strategies
- Options
- Derivatives
- Commodity Markets
- Technical Analysis
- Risk Management
- Futures Trading
- Volatility
- Managerial
- Bloomberg
- Securities
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