Niche Market Risk / Credit Risk Software– Implementation Manager recruitment

Niche Market Risk / Credit Risk Software – Implementation

A niche Market and Credit Risk System Software Vendor requires an experienced Implementation Consultant with at least three years functional experience in the risk space. The ideal candidate will be working for an Investment Bank, Investment Managers, a risk based software vendor or consulting firm.

This experience should include implementation of systems for derivatives in FX, Interest Rates, Fixed Income, Credit or Equity. It was also requires you to be technically minded including database skills – SQL querying, joins etc and some basic scripting knowledge. Some experience in designing/building front office systems would be an advantage but not a necessity.

This is a client facing role which requires you to be confident in your ability to understand the clients needs and requirements and the capabilities of the software you are implementing. This would include identifying the correlation between the client needs and the functional and technical capabilities of the product.

The implementation process includes pre-sales presentations and workshops for clients, configuring, testing, user training on the practical execution of business functions, and ensuring that client expectations are met. Alongside the obvious implementation duties you would also be required to work as part of a project team in areas such as market data, pricing, trade capture, rules based configuration in the areas of market and credit risk. As such, strong industry knowledge and a strong background in risk management, ideally in one of the following risk areas: Credit, Limits, Market, Risk Methodologies and Economic Capital would be highly advantageous.

You will also be required to provide expertise on industry-standard methodologies and tools (e.g. bootstrapping algorithms, trade capture systems, Black-Scholes model, Monte Carlo simulation, VaR). Strong knowledge of financial markets (e.g. fixed income, credit, derivatives, market data analysis, economic and regulatory capital) and analytics (e.g. HS VaR, MC VaR, financial modeling) would be highly advantageous.

Location: City of London
Salary: 60 – 80k plus excellent benefits and bonus