About the job
Market & Liquidity Risk Manager
London
Hybrid
Founded in 2007 our client is one of the fastest growing banks of their kind in the UK. They offer personal and corporate savings products and finance for UK residential and commercial property, in addition to sourcing and advising on UK real estate investments.
Due to growth within the business, they are now looking to acquire the services of a Market & Liquidity Risk Manager to their expanding team. The Market & Liquidity Risk Manager will lead and manage the market risk function by developing appropriate market risk monitoring parameters, daily monitoring of such parameters and escalation of risks and provide risk mitigation solutions to the Assets and Liability Committee. This is primarily a 2nd LoD role.
This is a broad and varied role, working across Treasury and markets. Identification and analysing, reporting of market and liquidity risk within treasury and trading activities. Supports the market risk function from a primarily 2LoD view. Candidate must have strong analytical and modelling skills.
Key responsibilities
* Day-to-day market risk management of the Fixed Income securities and trading portfolio, ensuring completeness and integrity of the risks captured daily in the official VAR process, identifying and resolving exceptions, monitoring risk positions against VaR and non-VaR limits and reporting on the main risks to the business and to Risk senior management.
* Provide analysis and commentary on changes in risk positions and their impact on key risk measures such as VaR, IRRBB, NII, Duration risk etc. Back-testing Value-at-Risk to profit or loss to ensure effectiveness of the model
* Act as 2LOD by monitoring various parameters and limits on the income hedge, bond portfolio (HTC & FVTPL), FX swaps, NDFs, net open positions and stop losses.
* Monitoring and reviewing trade transactions across the trading desks including bonds and derivatives.
* Analyze trading transactions, reviewing models and understand what drives trading strategies across the asset classes
* Monitor closely with the Treasury function to ensure that appropriate processes, models, assumptions are in place to manage key balance-sheet key risk indicators within the stated risk tolerance and appetite.
* Take part in ALCO and other relevant committees
* Assess new regulatory policies and their impact on market risk exposures
* Provide assistance for policy development in relation to market, trading credit and/or liquidity risk as it relates to (but not limited to) trading/derivative products.
* Review the ILAAP as the 2LoD and perform deep dive controls reviews of the regulatory returns for liquidity.
* Perform 2LoD support on liquidity stress testing activities
Key Skills required
* Must have experience and confidence with IRRBB (interest Rate Risk in the Banking Book) and VAR models (Value Risk). Needs to demonstrate confidence and knowledge when discussing Liquidity knowledge around gaps or concentrations. Knowledge of Fixed Income models and quantitative exposure.
* 5-7 years of work experience at a bank or a consultancy practice
* In-depth knowledge of mathematical and statistical methodologies used in financial engineering
* Understand key risk factors for Treasury Trading (FX and Bonds), Credit Trading and how they are measured
* Exposure to either liquidity and credit risk will be an advantage
* Strong skills in the use of relevant programming tools (Strong Excel, VBA)
* Financial accounting background
In return they will offer you:
* Attractive reward package; the typical benefits include:
* 25 days holiday entitlement increasing with service
* Pension Plan
* Private Medical Insurance
* Dental Cover
* Income Protection
* Life Assurance
* Employee Referral Bonus
Please apply to find out more.
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