Traded Risk Analyst

Job description

Job description

If you’re looking for a career where you can make a real impression, join our Global Service Center (GSC)- HSBC and discover how valued you’ll be.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of

  Traded Risk Analyst

Role purpose:

Provide market risk coverage resulting from trading activity within the HSBC US entities with a focus on capital markets The job position is responsible to analyze, control, and report risks that the bank incurs.

Main activities:  

·  Compile and analyze risk for limits and risk monitoring/reporting daily. Review risk exposures relative to risk limits.
·  Analyze risk exposures and effectively communicate the major drivers of risk to the business and senior management.
·  Research and follow-up on queries regarding risk measures from Market Risk Managers, Front Office, and Senior Management.
·  Participate in the design and testing of risk engines to ensure the capture of all risk types such as PVBP, VaR, CS01, EAD, etc., and understand their role in RWA computation.
·  Manage and monitor limits, including timely escalation, reporting, and investigation of limit excesses.
·  Ensure that data used for risk valuation and calculation is appropriately captured, processed, and reported.
·  Contribute to the establishment of best-in-class standards and practices, seeking continuous improvement in daily processing.
·  Collaborate with local counterparts in wider Traded Risk Process & Analysis team to ensure all tasks are completely accurately and in a timely manner.
·  Ensure that all procedures and best practices defined by Traded Risk Process & Analysis are followed and documented in a period manner.
·  Responsible for continuous and efficient management of risk control activities which minimize exceptions, breaks, breaches, and manual processing.
·  Ensure compliance with operational risk controls in accordance with HSBC and regulatory standards and policies and optimize relations with regulators by addressing any issues.
·  Promote an environment that supports diversity and reflects the HSBC brand

Requirements

·  Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in finance, economics, engineering or similar discipline.
·  3+ years of experience in a risk function at a major financial institution, preferably with a focus in market risk.
·  Good understanding of vanilla and structured products traded within capital markets.
·  Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain topics clearly and intuitively.
·  Good understanding of capital markets and the key market risk measures and methodologies used to assess risk.
·  Strong analytical skills and the ability to apply quantitative techniques to perform trend analysis, identify risk anomalies, and solve practical problems.
·  Team-oriented, while pro-active and self-motivated with ability to complete tasks with limited supervision.
·  Good at handling a diverse workload of longer-term projects and short-terms asks.
·  Comfortable with understanding and learning to leverage multiple risk systems.
·  Familiarity with databases and programming languages like SAS, MATLAB, Access, R, Python is a plus, but not mandatory.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC!

At HSBC we offer our colleagues a greater number of days so that they can fully enjoy their wedding, take care of the new member of the family, or grieve the loss of a family member. Our paid leave package is at the forefront in Mexico, now you have one more reason to be HSBC and proudly live a culture of well-being, balance and care

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culture where all employees are valued, respected and opinions count. We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development, flexible working and, opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.

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