AVP-VP Level FX Market risk manager for a top tier investment bank-New York based recruitment
A leading global investment bank is looking to expand its front office market risk team with this key hire. The Market risk manager will be working directly with traders and have consistent interaction with senior management in the development of how risk is run for the interest rates desk. This role provides any market risk professional an excellent opportunity for a risk professional to expand their understanding of the FX markets and experience within a front office environment.
The role comprises of the following tasks:
- Daily monitoring of risk exposures (report production done by aligned but separate risk function) for assigned region
- Contribution to regular (weekly and monthly) risk summaries for senior management and Front Office
- Quantitative support for the team: e.g. timeseries analyses, ad hoc and regular exposure summaries reviews, development of new risk measures
- Participation in other, not necessarily quantitative, projects and requests (e.g. as required by senior management, internal and external audit, other departments)
Candidate profile
- University degree in Finance or some quantitative subject (Science, Engineering)
- Experience in market risk management working on interest rate products
- Very good IT skills (eg Microsoft Office suite, VBA, past experience with Front Office systems and some database knowledge would also be useful)
- Meets deadlines and is flexible under changing priorities
- Enjoys working in and contributing to a team
- Career perspective: transition from risk analyst to risk management
- Very good writing and communication skills
- Takes ownership of assigned tasks and can manage small size projects to final delivery (including potential staff management tasks)
July 8, 2012
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