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Market Risk SME Senior Business Analyst

Market Risk SME Senior Business Analyst

Posted 11 April by Myn
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£800.00 - £900.00 per day
London , South East England
Contract, full-time
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Posted by Myn
Job Title: Market Risk SME Senior Business Analyst
Duration: 6 Months
Location: London
Pay Rate: Competitive

Role Purpose

Shape and optimize Market Risk processes, focusing on strategic delivery of the 'STAR' Market Risk architecture. Utilize FRTB expertise to contribute to future risk frameworks. Collaborate cross-functionally, analyzing complex risk tasks and informing strategic decisions. Ideal for those passionate about risk transformation.

Function:

The Global Risk and Compliance function has responsibility for risk management covering retail and wholesale credit, market trading and treasury, operations, security and fraud risk, climate, risk models and risk strategy together with financial crime and compliance. This is done in support of regions and global lines of business.

Knowledge & Experience / Qualifications

Knowledge & Experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Senior Business Analyst in financial services, with a focus on risk management.
• Excellent knowledge of Market Risk
• Strong experience and understanding of VaR and SVaR Capital models.
• Knowledge and experience of Product, Models and Risk Factor taxonomies and business data models.
• Knowledge of Basel 3 FRTB requirements.
• Broad knowledge of asset classes and their implications in terms of market risk
• Ability to work with large volumes of data – Analysis, regression of data and presentation of data.
• Ability to demonstrate strong Excel, Power point and Python programming skills(desirable).
• Focused and delivery-driven with ability to meet tight deadlines, multi-task and prioritise appropriately in a fast moving and often evolving environment
• Capable of exposure regression analysis and explaining differences between production exposure and target system generated exposure, through breakdown of variables
• Experience in documenting requirements, validating functional specifications, drafting testing approach plans and user acceptance test cases
• Experience in risk system development cycles and working with Risk Technology departments.
• Strong ability to understand and use complex systems and take a logical and constructive approach to investigating and communicating system problems
• Understanding of how projects are delivered, including project lifecycle
• Knowledge on trading business & products, risk methodology and regulatory framework. Specifically, exposure in all Asset classes, Market risks, Cross-Risks and trade characteristics.
• Knowledge and experience of Agile methodology and project management

Principal Accountabilities: Operational Performance

• Adheres to the Groups standard tools and methodologies, Change Framework and Clarity. There must be consistent use of agreed tools and methodologies to track progress, issues, risks, dependencies, planning value, funding and resources

• Collaborates with stakeholders to define the project strategy and develops a roadmap ensuring all constraints of time/resources are met.

• Influences and collaborates with stakeholder and delivery partners to drive the right project outcomes. Represents the project team at discussions regarding project prioritisation and to create buy-in for risk mitigation and contingency plan

• Develops and/or reviews estimates and estimating assumptions for the project’s schedule, effort, and cost using established estimating models, best practices, and past experience

• Documents and develops targeted benefits for a change intervention

• Draws upon financial skills to develop a high level business case, considering investment and high level benefits

• Manages business case, tracking realisation of benefits against targets and spend against agreed budgets and funding

• Diligently runs incident management process to mitigate against any threat to benefits realisation

• Manages and reports project risks, issues and dependencies

• Manages the pace - actively moves team / programme along the delivery journey with pace and enthusiasm

• Anticipates issues and risks and acts to mitigate these quickly; handles any unforeseen roadblocks swiftly and effectively

• Navigates different modes of thinking with ease, tailoring their approach to the situation/stakeholder

• Promotes pace and energy within the team and leads by example

• Identifies root cause of broken processes using a range of tools to analyse current state processes and identify improvement opportunities

• Develops creative solutions, considering aspects of risk/reward

• Designs re-engineered processes, based on statistical and qualitative methods to identify improvement areas

• Executes process consulting efforts to realise re-engineering benefits

Qualifications and Skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or a related field
• Advanced degrees (e.g., MBA, CFA, FRM) are advantageous.
• Analytical mind-set with the ability to dissect complex risk scenarios.
• Proficiency in risk management tools (e.g., VaR, stress testing, scenario analysis).
• Demonstrable problem solving and analytical abilities including the ability to critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details and apply sound business and technical domain knowledge
• Excellent communication skills to engage with diverse stakeholders.
• Change management expertise and project management skills.

Reference: 52460059

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