Financial Services Risk Management
Internship Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA Accounting / Management control
Job description
Manager- Financial Services Risk Management
Our Financial Services Organization is a unique, industry-focused practice, and our Finance Service Risk Management is an integral part of our offering. With strong functional capabilities, and a varied range of knowledge, our clients look to us for advice they can rely on every time. Join us and share a passion for helping our clients assess, design, and deploy holistic risk management solutions; transform operating models, and achieve regulatory compliance.
Your Key responsibilities
As a core member of the team, together with our leading practitioners you will be shaping and executing the financial risk management advisory service for clients. You will engage with client stakeholders from team structure risk, operation risk, system risk, etc., provide final risk management solution for clients.
As a Manager in the team you can expect to be involved in the following activities:
· Participate in and lead in Quantitative Risk engagements with a Market Risk focus
· Work effectively as a team member sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication, and updating senior team members on progress
· Assist in preparing reports and project plans that will be delivered to clients and other parties
· Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel
· Build strong internal relationships within Advisory and across other services
· Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for staff
· Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting and retaining FS Risk professionals
· Maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills
Skills and attributes for success
· Confident and credible communicator who displays both technical knowledge and commercial understanding
· Project management and excellent report writing skills
· Experience in stakeholder and client management
· Ability to drive business development and contribute to the growth of the EY market solutions
To qualify for the role you must have
· Demonstrable, relevant experience in Financial Services, either as part of an institution; in an advisory or business consulting capacity to such organisations or in the regulation of such institutions.
· Strong academic background including a Bachelor's degree (Computational Finance, Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics, or Physics preferred) or equivalent
· Good understanding of Derivative Pricing, Market and CVA methodologies used for the trading, risk management and ideally experience in FRTB and CRDIV or calculation of regulatory capital requirements.
· Modelling background, including experience in model development and model validation of Derivative Pricing, Market Risk and CVA models and experience of standard techniques used.
· Strong experience in any of the following software development environments: VBA /Java /C++ / SQL/R/Matlab/.NET
Who we are
Risk management protects business performance and contributes to sustainability in results. It's about achieving a clear understanding of risks and developing plans to manage them. As part of our team of risk professionals, you'll work with multinational businesses and public sector organizations to develop an integrated, holistic approach to risk and control. You'll help them benefit from their investments in internal controls and have greater confidence they can respond to whatever the future may hold. You'll be engaged in delivering some of the most significant and class-leading internal audit and risk engagements globally. As part of our market-leading global network of risk professionals, you'll gain the valuable experience you need to become a successful risk advisor. You'll also team with our performance improvement professionals in multidisciplinary engagements with major global clients, helping them transform and sustain their business performance. At Ernst & Young, we recognize that it's the perspectives, skills and enthusiasm you bring to our clients that makes the difference.
If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
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To qualify for the role you must have
· Demonstrable, relevant experience in Financial Services, either as part of an institution; in an advisory or business consulting capacity to such organisations or in the regulation of such institutions.
· Strong academic background including a Bachelor's degree (Computational Finance, Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics, or Physics preferred) or equivalent
· Good understanding of Derivative Pricing, Market and CVA methodologies used for the trading, risk management and ideally experience in FRTB and CRDIV or calculation of regulatory capital requirements.
· Modelling background, including experience in model development and model validation of Derivative Pricing, Market Risk and CVA models and experience of standard techniques used.
· Strong experience in any of the following software development environments: VBA /Java /C++ / SQL/R/Matlab/.NET