(Senior) Business Support Officer
(Senior) Business Support Officer
Preliminary campaign in anticipation of a future vacancy
Purpose
The Business Support Officer provides advanced operational support to the Bank’s lending activity, notably in the quantitative domain. S/he proactively contributes to the wider policy and business support tasks of the Division, including technical aspects of product development, capital consumption, pricing, market analysis, reporting and training.
Operating Network
The successful candidate will report to the Head and the Expert of the Division, and cooperate closely with other members of the Division, OSD and Ops, including in the relevant Centres of Expertise. S/he will have regular contact with colleagues in other Directorates, notably with Risk Management, Finance and potentially Legal and Projects.
Accountabilities
- Formulate proposals on pricing, capital consumption, credit and other policy or operational issues
- Contribute to development of portfolio products, related modelling and reporting, notably for first loss and risk sharing mechanisms
- Refine and improve pricing and risk assessment of portfolio exposures, in line with best market practice
- Develop IT applications, including technical documentation, and ensure proper functioning of existing tools
- Monitor regulatory and internal developments and assess their impact on the EIB's pricing and scoring systems
- Provide data and analysis for reports to the Management Committee, Ops A senior management and external stakeholders, including on capital markets developments and complex topics
- Provide advice to loan officers on issues related to structuring, pricing and competitiveness
- Actively contribute to working groups and relevant Centres of Expertise
- Represent the Directorate(s) when dealing with Bank-wide policy and special initiatives
- Ensure maintenance and update of relevant policies, procedures and methodologies
- Maintain and develop the GRM responsibility for selected non-EU corporates and financial institutions.
Qualifications
- University degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics or other quantitative subject. Post-graduate studies in these fields or relevant professional certifications would be a strong advantage
- Minimum 5 years of relevant professional experience, including:
- Advanced knowledge of MS Excel and knowledge of relevant programming languages (VBA, Matlab and Business Objects). Familiarity with external financial databases (e.g. Bloomberg) would be a clear advantage
- Experience in modelling and working with large data samples and data management
- Good knowledge of the EIB lending and funding processes and products
- Knowledge of the different EIB databases and data extraction / reporting would be a clear advantage
- Excellent knowledge of English and/or French, with a good knowledge of the other (*).
Competencies
- Strong quantitative and analytical capability
- Financial skills
- Problem solving skills
- Ability to draft and communicate clearly
- Proactive attitude
- Good capacity to work in a team
- Reliability and ability to work under pressure
(*) There may be certain flexibility on this requirement, but limited to particularly suitable candidates who may not yet be proficient in French. If selected, such candidates will be hired on the condition that they build up rapidly knowledge of French and accept that their future career in the EIB may be subject to the attainment of sufficient proficiency in both of the Bank's working languages.
Deadline for applications: 01st September 2013
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