Abu Dhabi Based Bank requires senior market risk professional with interest rates and FX knowledge to lead team recruitment
The successful candidate will join the front office trading team to manage the risk for the interest rates desk. The role of the candidate will be to manage the ongoing front to back development of the current rates risk infrastructure globally throughout the bank. This role will involve sitting next to the traders and actively take part in implementing trades for the desk. The risk manager will also be involved in new product approval committee meetings and will be the first point for risk for issues within fixed income.
Responsible for measuring and monitoring Market Risk at the Group Level:
- Measuring and managing Interest Rate Risk at the Group level
- Measuring and managing Fx risk at the Group level
- Measuring and managing Liquidity risk at the Group level
- Implementation of Market Risk System lie Murex, ALM and FTP.
- Implementation of Market Risk Model including VaR tools.
- Preparation of Group Asset Liability Committee (G-ALCO) folder.
- Manage Market Risk team [total team size 4 members]
The successful candidate is likely to have the following skill set and experience:
Necessitate a higher academic qualification (Bachelors plus CA/ MBA/ FRM/ CFA). Further requires a through working experience of 10- 12 years in Banking with minimum 5 years experience in Treasury/ Market Risk of a large Bank consisting of:
- Well developed Market Risk Infrastructure
- Strong analytics and problem solving skills and demonstrated knowledge in Treasury and Market Risk.
- Strong understanding of Market Risk / Treasury system including Bloomberg/ Reuters etc.
- Strong communication, presentation and writing skills.
- Knowledge of Arabic is desirable, but not essential.
This role requires an experienced risk manager who can handle a challenging and dynamic front office environment. The person in this role will be exposed to the top management at the bank including the head of market risk and the head of the trading floor therefore it is an excellent opportunity to work with some of the best financial players in the market.
If you feel would be suited to this position please send all applications to risk@selbyjennings.com