Officer, Credit Risk Support, GRITT recruitment
Overview
Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving more than 59 million consumer and small business relationships with more than 6,100 retail banking offices, nearly 18,700 ATMs and award-winning online banking with nearly 29 million active users. Following the acquisition of Merrill Lynch on January 1, 2009, Bank of America is among the world's leading wealth management companies and is a global leader in corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. Bank of America offers industry-leading support to more than 4 million small business owners through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients in more than 150 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock is a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced and motivated analyst/developer to join our Credit Risk Technology team in Hong Kong. This team is part of a wider international Credit Risk Production Support team, who are responsible for a suite of global applications within the Credit Risk arena of a leading global financial institution. This is an exciting role offering plenty of scope for future development and career progression.
The successful candidate will provide analysis and support to the business, deliver tactical solutions, drive technical excellence for the growing regional business, and coordinate with global technology initiatives to deliver a class-leading service to our business partners.
This role is well suited to a strong support candidate with a keen interest in investment banking. The successful candidate will have an opportunity to work on new and existing systems used globally by Credit Risk and will involve working with teams in the US, PACRIM and EMEA.
Responsibilities
- Act as primary point of contact on issues relating to the banks single consolidate platform for the management of counterparty credit risk for traded products
- Problem-solving and responding to product questions/issues, and react as necessary
- Daily maintenance of web-based credit risk application; bug fixes, user support, tactical solutions
- Liaison with other technology groups to determine factors attributing to issues relating to the application
- Liaison with credit management, credit analysts and credit data quality personnel to resolve issues
- Ensure proper knowledge transfer mechanisms are undertaken to ensure that colleagues are able to offer adequate production support coverage in your absence
- Ability to partner with other areas within the team and technology groups outside of the Credit Risk Technology teams
Requirements
- Experience as either a production support or as a member of a support team within the financial industry
- Detailed knowledge and experience of relational databases
- Experience in Java, JSP, JavaScript, J2EE, AJAX, EJB, HTML, Struts and CSS
- Linux/Unix server experience, shell scripting (e.g. Perl, Ruby), command line interface
- Autosys batch scheduling, or any type of batch monitoring tool
- Credit Risk/Market Risk knowledge experience
- Database tuning/schema design
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Resourceful and takes initiative
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Flexibility and adaptability to work in a continuously changing environment