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JOB PURPOSE

• Ensure that there is an effective and efficient management of the bank’s market risk across the Group.
• Support the Head of Group Market Risk in overseeing and managing department’s treasury risk control and market risk functions.
• Provide a comprehensive market risk analysis and assessment that can assist in decision making and controls setup.

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Generate trading and investment risk reports timely and accurately.
• Daily analysis of market risk exposures and sensitivities, as well as limit monitoring for all treasury products.
• Management of risk limit excesses.
• Generate VaR and backtesting report.
• Monthly reporting, e.g. Enterprise Risk Deck, ALCO report, market risk capital charge report and other management executive summary for trading and investment book.
• New products assessment and controls. Assist in the development, implementation, and maintenance of sophisticated market risk models (if any) to accurately measure and manage the bank’s market risk exposures.
• Work with front office traders/dealers, business management support, IT, Group Finance and Back Office on issues related to market risk.
• Develop and enhance market risk monitoring tools and reports.
• Participate in projects, process change, treasury system UAT and new product testing.
• Assist in timely review of market risk limits, policies, guidelines and risk governance process to ensure adherence to market risk framework.
• Rates Verification & Maintenance.
• Maintain Treasury system requirements where relevant to Market Risk Management.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• Degree with major in Risk Management, Financial Engineering, Quantitative Finance/Economics, Actuarial, Statistics, Engineering or related discipline.
• Ideally someone with more than 2 years of experience within market risk or trading risk management.
• Knowledge of treasury product pricing, market risk methodology and trading risk attribution.
• Strong quantitative skills, IT savvy with good technical/analytic mindset, possession of good communication and problem-solving skills.
• Self-starter, ability to work independently and a dynamic team player. Ability to multi-task and work well under pressure with commitment to deliver.