Risk Reporting Analyst

My client is global financial services company focused on helping clients manage and service their financial assets, operating in 36 countries and serving more than 100 markets. They are a leading provider of financial services for institutions, corporations and high-net-worth individuals, providing superior asset management and wealth management, asset servicing, issuer services, clearing services and treasury services through a worldwide client-focused team

I am currently looking to recruit a Risk Reporting Analyst on a 6 month contract to join the EMEA Risk Reporting and Analytics team within the EMEA Risk Architecture function. The team is responsible for managing the production of risk reporting and analytical data for the EMEA region covering Advanced operational risk modelling and related scenario development process, research and analysis from risk systems to support stress testing preparation. The team interfaces with internal staff, as well as Risk management in EMEA and at a global level.

You will be expected to work collaboratively with other team members to achieve the highest level of risk reporting quality through input to the design and being responsible for the production of regional level consolidated risk, capital forecasting and stress testing information. The incumbent will produce ad-hoc, monthly and quarterly enterprise risk reports required by the EMEA Region and its executive committees, as well as being responsible for collation of capital reports for members of the team. 

You will be responsible for collation of risk, capital and stress testing data, analysing, and reporting these activities in the EMEA region in order to minimise risk liabilities for the company.

You will also be responsible for maintaining statistical models, data analysis, monitoring their input parameters, outputs and preparing risk and capital reports. The incumbent must also ensure outputs are documented, validated and reviewed internally prior to presentation to relevant committees and Boards. Also working within a team to support statistical data analysis to support operational risk AMA scenario metrics, and therefore must have a high degree of analytical and research ability. Outputs will be produce both on a routine monthly and quarterly basis as well as ad-hoc to input to decision making processes. Therefore the incumbent must be a highly competent data analyst with the ability to produce high quality understandable outputs.

Key Requirements

The ideal candidate will be detail oriented, collaborative, a strong communicator with excellent written and verbal abilities and will have spent at least 3 years in the financial industry working in a risk analysis and reporting role. He or she should be self-motivated and organised and have working knowledge of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, database and risk platforms. Your level of skill in Excel will need to be well above average. Additionally, it would be preferable if you had an understanding of databases and a working knowledge of SQL and Excel VBA.

You will be highly self-motivated with excellent attention to detail and able to manage high volumes of workloads and priorities effectively during peak times to the standards and within the boundaries of the EMEA Stress testing Framework.

Experience in managing stakeholder relationships across a range of levels will be necessary for this role.

An awareness of current regulations in relation to managing advanced measurement approaches for operational risk, as well as risk management guidelines across the EU would be an advantage. It would also be advantageous to also have a good working knowledge of risk information aggregation, systems and reporting techniques as well as risk appetite and risk monitoring approaches.

Additionally, as part of the wider team you will be required to undertake analysis of regulations and build remediation plans for recommendations and implementation in-region and it is vital the role holder is able to understand and comply with these as well as input to and work within internal guidelines.

It is expected that you will be educated to Degree level and / or with relevant practical experience in one of the following: MIS, Risk, Statistics, Information Quality.

This is an initial 6 month contract. There is a possibility that this could convert to a permanent position at a later date.

August 2, 2013 • Tags:  • Posted in: Financial

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