Traded Risk Control Analyst

Job description

The role of the Traded Risk Control Analyst within Business Consultants is to work with internal customers to define and prioritise business problems and opportunities; exploring and scoping possible solutions to these problems and enabling transformational business change in order to create value. Business Consultants will hold most or all of these responsibilities:
· Anticipate issues and risks and act to mitigate these
· Define and prioritise business problems and opportunities
· Achieve stated revenue and costs benefits
· Effectively manage operational risks and internal controls
· Monitor performance and metrics against business case, resolving where possible and escalating where necessary any deviations
· Work with line management to define detailed value-focused solution options based on the opportunity and provide recommendations, weighing up investment vs. return.
Your responsibilities will include:
· Ensure correct risk and detailed analysis is provided, and therefore that the correct levels of capital adequacy are maintained by the bank.
· Maintain and improve quality of analysis to MRM and other clients (FO/Regulators)
· Ensure the delivery of risk analysis to a Global standard by working closely with other team members both in London and globally.
· Attention to detail, disciplined and focused on ensuring risk is provided correctly.
· Build additional functionality in accordance with client requests

Desired profile

Qualifications :

The ideal candidate for this role will have the below experience and qualifications:
·  Masters in finance/maths/engineering
·  Experience in risk analyst
·  Set and achieved challenging short, medium and long term goals which exceeded the standards in their field
·  A track record of making complex business decisions with authority, even in times of ambiguity, considering the potential long term risks and implications
·  Experience of creating and deploying comprehensive business/operating plans which consistently deliver desired results
·  A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes, utilising appropriate techniques and tools to ensure and measure success
·  A comprehensive understanding of risk management and proven experience of ensuring own/others' compliance with relevant regulatory processes
In addition to the details listed above, the ideal candidate will have a track record of:
·  Candidate will be expected to have a strong understanding of Market and XVA Risk and a good understanding of its role within the wider Group Risk context.
·  An understanding of the Credit/CVA businesses, XVA Stress Testing and the accounting context is required.
·  Candidate will be expected to also have strong programming skills (VBA, sql, C++, Python…)
·  Candidate will be expected to work independently and will be expected to have the discipline to run all necessary processes to a consistently high standard.
·  Thorough understanding of risk management, Value at Risk, sVaR, PVBP, RWA and Stress Testing
• Understand key risk factors for all asset classes.
• Thorough understanding of the Market risk function.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access
• Ability to design and implement normalized databases.
• Advanced knowledge of VBA, MDX Query and SQL
• Experience in related banking areas

The base location of this role will be 8 Canada Square, London.

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