Data Managment Analyst
Role Overview
This position is offered as a 12 month short-term contract.
Risk Management has an on-going requirement to manage and report on data for a variety of clients relating to banking and treasury assets. One of its key aims is to ensure that the Banks portfolio remains of high credit quality, and to minimise any losses that the bank may suffer as a result of credit quality deterioration.
Data Management and Reporting (DMR) is a team within Risk Policy Reporting, which itself is part of Risk Management.
The Teams primary function is aimed at managing Risk data and systems in order to support Risk and other stakeholders throughout the bank. DMR achieves this through implementation and management of effective and innovative processes and procedures to govern quality data, analysis on the Banking and Treasury portfolios and effective reporting solutions developed to support business needs.
This position covers the overall (whole bank) aspect of DMR's work, involving considerable product and aggregate complexity as well as projection/stress analyses.
Key Responsibilities and Deliverables
Reporting / Analysis
- Contribute to substantial periodic risk management reports including The Annual Report and Quarterly Risk Report (for the Board) providing comparison analysis and commentary.
- Provide counterparty exposure aggregation analysis and reporting.
- Contribution of risk data and measures for weekly, monthly reports as well as for Economic Capital, Provisioning and loss experience analysis.
- Operational Risk and Financial Risk reporting.
- Substantial ad-hoc reporting and analysis requests from within Risk Management and many other departments throughout the bank.
Monitoring Compliance
- Monitoring and analysis of Risk Management counterparty, group, country, maturity, settlement and concentration limit exceptions. Close liaison with Banking TFP, Treasury, Middle Office in analysis and resolution of exceptions.
- Monitoring of Policy Limits vs actual positions across Banking and Treasury books.
- External agency country credit rating monitoring.
Risk Management Systems
- Contribution to the calibration of the Risk Management Systems including tasks such as the cleansing, validation and verification of data, for information such as client ownership hierarchies, credit mitigation and linkage to relevant transactions, market risk factors (interest rate curves), current and peak exposure calculations, credit risk factors (credit spreads, ratings), credit risk mitigants, exposure profiles.
- Integration of new processes, procedures regarding risk data and exposure measures.
- Help provide an understanding to the EBRD of the new risk data and exposure measures.
- Develop an understanding of the data items and the data structures used by the Risk Management Department and work with IT to develop and improve the data quality and structures.
Systems / Processes / Procedures
- Reconciliation, review, research, maintenance and analysis of risk data and exposures in the Banks systems (DTM, SAP, Summit, PMM, TFP, AFL).
- Process documentation, streamlining and automation.
- Contribution to Risk Management procedures and policy documents.
- Help liaise with IT for enhancements and maintenance of Risk Management Systems
- Cover for other Data Management and Reporting staff when required.
Essential Skills, Experience Qualifications
- Minimum education to degree level or equivalent, preferably in a numerical/science-based subject, from good quality institution.
- Prior experience of data management, analysis and reporting, preferably gained within a financial institution, ideally involved in credit and risk management.
- Prior experience with relational databases and related reporting tools (e.g. Oracle, Access, Sql, Cognos products) is essential.
- Experience of defining and running user acceptance testing.
- Treasury products and Banking knowledge advantageous.
- Advanced knowledge of Excel, Access.
Competencies Personal Attributes
- Technical and professional expertise -ability to make effective and appropriate use of the skills and knowledge described above.
- Analytical, highly innovative and critical thinker with the ability to tackle issues and problems in a logical way; a self-starter with good time management and organisational skills.
- Ability to obtain and use all relevant information from a variety of sources in order to produce the desired deliverables.
- Quality - seeks to attain the highest possible accuracy and quality in his or her own work and the team's output.
- Flexibility - able and willing to work effectively within a demanding work environment.
- Team player - ability to become an effective part of a close team - mutual support and collective achievement of the team's objectives.
- Customer focused with the ability to understand their needs and priorities, set and manage expectations appropriately; commitment to deliverables is essential.
- Interpersonal skills - fluent written and verbal English, including the ability to operate sensitively in the Bank's multicultural environment and build effective working relationships with clients and colleagues; ability to communicate effectively is essential.
This job description is not limited to the responsibilities listed and the incumbent may be requested to perform other relevant duties as required by business needs.
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