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26.08.2025
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Job Description:
Are you an experienced Market Risk professional ready to take the next step in your career? This is a unique opportunity to join a high-energy treasury and market risk team at the heart of international banking. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the branch’s market risk oversight, gaining exposure to a wide spectrum of financial products while supporting strategic decision-making at senior levels. Working closely with the Senior Market Risk Manager, you will be instrumental in strengthening the branch’s risk reporting framework, driving forward analytics capability, and ensuring best-in-class risk management practices.
Location: London
Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time
Key Responsibilities:
* Monitor and report market risk exposures in alignment with the Branch’s Market Risk policy, ensuring daily adherence to approved limits.
* Support the enhancement of risk infrastructure, including improving reporting capabilities and participating in projects through user requirement documentation and UAT.
* Assist in refining methodologies for calculating market risk exposures, including VaR and back-testing frameworks.
* Conduct stress testing and qualitative risk assessments across business units, implementing scenario analyses as needed.
* Track market news and events impacting risk assessments and communicate insights to senior management and business areas promptly.
* Provide expert advice on market risk and valuation matters, supporting business areas in structuring transactions to optimize risk-return outcomes.
* Liaise with Head Office on market risk and other risk-related topics.
* Support country risk and counterparty credit risk management activities.
* Collaborate with internal and external auditors as required.
* Administer risk and trading systems.
* Escalate material risk events, including conduct risk and conflicts of interest.
* Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and contribute to the continuous improvement of risk frameworks.
Qualifications and Skills:
* Bachelor’s degree or higher in a numerate, financial, or accounting discipline; professional qualifications are advantageous.
* Extensive knowledge of market risk measurement methodologies and advanced risk management techniques.
* In-depth understanding of wholesale banking and treasury products (e.g., options); experience with complex derivatives/structured products is preferred.
* Familiarity with PRA regulatory frameworks and capital management requirements is a plus.
* Knowledge of country risk and counterparty credit risk is desirable.
* Excellent communication skills in English and Mandarin (both written and verbal).
* Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with the capacity to make swift judgments in fast-paced environments.
* Team-oriented with the ability to collaborate effectively while maintaining independence.
* Proactive, responsible, and self-motivated.
* Advanced proficiency in Excel; experience with VBA and Bloomberg is highly advantageous
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