Market Risk Associate Director

London Permanent View Job Description
Exciting new role in Market Risk. My client is a well known banking firm, with European operations headquartered in London.Banking services across Investment Banking and Corporate.Team is high performing, senior and role has come about due to internal promotion. Working to uphold a robust 2nd line in Market Risk and oversight of the bank trading book and balance sheet
  • Excellent opportunity in Market Risk Oversight, for wholesale banking group
  • New role to the market, seeking a candidate of senior manager level.

About Our Client

Investment and Corporate Bank, London based, hiring a Market Risk Associate Director.

Hybrid working- 3 days a week in office.

Positive culture, promote internal advancement and global opportunities.

Job Description

Market Risk Associate Director will:

  • Perform risk oversight on Interest Rate products.
  • Provide independent review and challenge of business activities.
  • Review new products/activities ensuring market risk requirements are met.
  • Assess Market Risk Limit requests, supporting or not in line with the banks risk appetite.
  • Support Market Risk policies locally
  • Undertake Market Risk reporting locally
  • Processing of Key Risk Indicators triggered.
  • Annual Desk Reviews.
  • Maintaining the independence of the Market Risk function and ensuring the "Risk Management Accountability Model" discipline is adhered to.
  • Keeping abreast of regulatory, market and business specific developments and maintaining a contemporary understanding of best practice in risk management.
  • The timely processing of Key Risk Indicators triggered, including analysis of exposures and escalation where required, explaining positions and movements in market risk and liquidity risk metrics.
  • Monitor trading activity throughout the day reviewing their impact on positions against limits and to look for any unusual activity.
  • Analyse data, solve problems, resolve queries, provide regular and ad-hoc reporting requests, resolve data integrity issues, process breaches, calibrate limits and produce Rates and Repo reporting and insight if necessary.
  • Create or amend limit structures, discuss business requirements in relation to market risk, analyse current limit structure and methodology and implement any changes.

The Successful Applicant

The Market Risk Associate Director will have :

  • Significant experience of market risk management in a financial services environment (minimum 5 years).
  • High-level of understanding of key global market risk regulations applied to the financial services industry.
  • Good knowledge and understanding of market risk practices and of general risk management principles.
  • Working knowledge of key wholesale markets products, particularly interest rate derivatives, interest rate options, repos.
  • Demonstrated capability for identification, assessment, and evaluation of risk.
  • Strong Excel skills, including working knowledge of VBA.
  • Coding skills and/or electronic and Algorithmic trading knowledge would be beneficial.

What's on Offer

Competitive salary.

Competitive benefits and bonus.

Contact
Eithne Hynes
Quote job ref
JN-012025-6647966
Phone number
+44 20 7645 1424

Job summary

Job function
Banking & Financial Services
Subsector
Risk Management
Sector
Financial Services
Location
London
Contract type
Permanent
Consultant name
Eithne Hynes
Consultant phone
+44 20 7645 1424
Job reference
JN-012025-6647966