Business Analyst – Market/Credit Risk IT recruitment
Business Analyst
Credit Suisse’s Strategic Risk Programme (SRP) is being mobilised to produce aggregated risk on demand, enabling more effective capital allocation, more effective trading decision making and more effective risk oversight across the Investment Bank
The Target Architecture Definition workstream has been set up to determine component designs, a front to back data model and technology choices as part of the overall SRP Target Architecture. The target state requirements imply a signficant increase in the scalability, performance and flexibility of IB wide data management and functional risk capabilities. To address this challenge the workstream will review and align bank wide activities, monitor technical options being evaluated in related workstreams, define the target state for the programme, and identify interim projects to progress towards the target.
Credit Suisse
As one of the world's leading financial services groups, Credit Suisse provides its clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Founded in 1856, Credit Suisse has a long tradition of meeting the complex financial needs of a wide range of clients, offering advisory services, comprehensive solutions and innovative products to companies, institutional clients and high-net-worth private clients globally. The Credit Suisse Group is active in over 50 countries and employs approximately 50,000 people. Further information can be found at credit-suisse.com.
Your skills and qualifications will ideally include:
- Evidence of contribution designing the next generation of "best in class" strategic Risk Management systems for a leading Bank
- A deep understanding of the credit and/or market risk business processes within Investment Banking (CVA, VaR, Sensitivities, Stress testing, P/L Vectors, Risk Aggregation, Regulatory capital)
- Strong understanding of financial instruments, risk and pricing modeling
- End-to-end understanding of investment banking processes including trading, risk management, product control and operations
- Strong background in analysis of complex software applications; and be able to describe practical day-to-day techniques they have used in these projects to achieve goals
- Whilst not a hands-on technical role, the applicant will be expected to have a broad understanding of technologies used in Investment Banking, and be able to converse with technical colleagues e.g. Architects, Developers about in-depth technical aspects
- Extensive experience of Investment Banking IT projects, especially exposure to a variety of development methodologies and approaches within software analysis design
- Experience working in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
Your main responsibilities will involve:
- Analysis and production of application architecture design for complex risk data management systems within Credit Suisse’s Strategic Risk Programme (SRP)
- Develop application architecture diagrams and supporting artefacts to support the definition of the target risk architecture
- Actively promote quality and consistency of application architecture diagrams is maintained throughout the analysis and development process
- Identify application strategy and processes during the design of the target state risk architecture
- Work to minimize identified risks or compliance issues through the development of architectural processes
- Review output (requirements and designs) from peer work streams (e.g., Calculation Infrastructure) to determine integration points within the overall Target Architecture
- Represent key decisions and concepts at Design Authority governance forums
- Examine trade-offs between different application architectures and technologies in support of requirements
- Determine approach method to prove best fit applications technologies against criteria
- Evolve and manage requirements from initial definition into application architecture designs that fit within the overall Target Architecture
- Ensure a proper understanding of the business and technical requirements for the application architecture that will operate within the Target Front-to-Back Risk Architecture
- Validate application architecture options to understand how they support or inform requirements
- Define application architecture use cases to illustrate key target architecture inputs, processes and outputs
- Represent application architecture within the overall Target architecture to Programme Architecture team, internal policy groups and related initiatives
What we will be looking for in you:
• Challenge the status quo and bring new ideas to drive process improvements.
• Ability to drill into and resolve complex problems and issues
• Strong written and oral communication skills and be able to choose appropriate communication media for the subject and target audience
• Outstanding organisational abilities it takes to continuously deliver high quality work, even in high pressure situations.
Contact:
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