Market Risk Manager - Investment Banking Firm

Role Description:

It is a role to find investment solutions. Ensuring the best possible foundation for their clients' financial future. And in return, you'll give the support and platform to develop new skills, make an impact and work alongside some of the industry's greatest thought leaders. This is their chance to achieve their goals and lead an extraordinary career.

In this role, it designs and executes the risk programs to identify, measure, control and manage market, liquidity, sustainability, and counterparty risk of fiduciary portfolios. This includes the regular monitoring, analysis, and reporting of risk to portfolio management.

Your key responsibilities:

• Conduct portfolio risk monitoring, analysis, and reporting across risk types (market risk, liquidity risk, and counterparty risk) and asset classes (e.g. equity, fixed income, and commodities)
• Support and execute data quality management and escalation processes of different risk metrics
• Develop and prepare reports, dashboards and memos on investment risk for management and other oversight bodies
• Review of new / existing product risk profiles and portfolio positions to identify potential investment risk
• Support the development of systems and tools to automate and operationalize risk limitation, measurement, monitoring and escalation processes
• Contribute to global and local projects in the Liquid Investment Risk Management Team

Your skills and experience:

• University degree in Finance or quantitative field, Chartered Financial Analyst or Financial Risk Manager designations a plus
• At least 4 years of proven experience in the financial services industry, with experience in different risk functions (market, counterparty credit, liquidity) preferably within a buy-side firm
• Proven experience analysing VaR metrics
• Proven experience with analytical models for financial instruments
• Strong knowledge of risk management across a diverse set of instrument types, business mandates, and risk disciplines (market risk, liquidity risk, counterparty risk)
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, with ability to communicate issues to management proactively and effectively
• Proactive mind-set to implement process improvements and new solutions
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities