Liquidity Team Lead within Banking Market Risk recruitment

Join Santander and you'll become a vital part of a business built on the outstanding service provided to our customers, as well as the award-winning products we offer. We're one of the fastest growing banks in the UK and that is down to our people. And we recognise that as we help you develop your career you'll be doing the same for our business.

Risk Analyst with Project management skills required to work in a busy Market Risk team that supports Risk Committee, Asset and Liability Committee, and Santander's balance sheet and liquidity management teams. Excellent opportunity to apply risk analysis skills on all aspects of banking market and liquidity risks across Commercial and Wholesale banking.

Santander UK

The Santander Group has more than 150 years' experience in global banking and more branches worldwide than any other international bank. We are well on the way to repeating this success in the UK, having been named 'Best UK Bank' by Euromoney for the third year running and 'Best UK Bank' by The Banker for the second successive year in 2010.

As a Liquidity Team Lead within Banking Market Risk your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

Required:

Education to degree standard in quantitative or business subject (e.g. maths, or economics), or equivalent.
Banking or other financial services experience, with exposure to traded and non-traded liquidity risk management and counterparty behaviour risks in particular.
Relevant IT skills including good working experience of Excel.
Good general analytical and problem solving skills, and the ability to make recommendations based on your own analysis.
Practised written and verbal communication, with the proven ability to communicate complex issues succinctly and accurately.

Desirable:

Previous liquidity and market risk management experience, including understanding of common metrics, and the current regulatory and compliance environment (eg: ILAS and Basel).
Exposure to Treasury IT (e.g.: Wall Street, Summit, Murex or other trading systems).
Good financial product knowledge (Commercial and Wholesale Banking).

As a Liquidity Team Lead within Banking Market Risk you will:

Manage a small team of risk analysts covering liquidity and market risk
Take the lead on the teams involvement in major projects across the SanUK Group
Help to analyse and quantify risks in retail, corporate and wholesale products, particularly relating to counterparty behaviour and treatment under internal and regulatory liquidity regimes.
Apply your understanding of the commercial, financial and risk drivers of the business and internal/external forces to recommend and implement improvements to risk analytics and reporting, thus improving the risk decision making process.
Help to develop liquidity and funding stress tests and use the output of these to drive business change where necessary.
Work with other business areas in Risk, Retail and Corporate Divisions and Financial Markets, and support Market Risk management in business or departmental wide initiatives.
Provide ad-hoc analysis as required.
Work on initiatives to and deal with queries from senior management.

Location: Triton Square

Santander welcomes applications from all sections of the community.