About the Role
The role is responsible for the implementation of market and liquidity risk management frameworks. You will conduct analyses and assessments of various market and liquidity scenarios and how they impact the organization’s risk appetite and funding capacity. You will oversee the monitoring of risk controls and thresholds, requiring excellent analytical, strategic planning, problem resolution, and communication skills. The ideal candidate should be comfortable working in deadline-driven environments while managing multiple responsibilities and effectively focusing on priority issues.
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Responsibilities
- Maintain market and liquidity risk management policies and frameworks
- Oversee the enforcement and implementation of market risk and liquidity risk management policies and governance frameworks
- Review and develop strategies to align the organization’s market and liquidity risk management policies, frameworks, and activities with regulatory requirements
- Define operational plans to align treasury functions and market and liquidity risk management activities
- Correspond with internal and/or external auditors, senior management, and other market professionals on market risk and liquidity risk related matters
- Conduct training on market and liquidity risk related topics to develop team members’ risk literacy and awareness
- Manage risk appetite and risk controls
- Oversee the implementation of valuation modeling and analysis of market and liquidity risks
- Implement and enforce market risk and liquidity risk limits for all risk-taking business units
- Initiate changes and improvements that aid the efficiency and effectiveness of risk control and liquidity gap closure activities
- Identify mitigating actions for incidents of non-compliance with market risk and liquidity risk management requirements and limits
- Conduct assurance checks on risk modeling outputs for accurate assessment of controls and risk monitoring activities
- Analyze identified legislation to determine its impact on the organization’s risk control requirements
- Perform any other duties assigned by the line manager related to the nature of the work
- Enforce, incorporate, and comply with all necessary controls and related information security policies, procedures, practices, training, reporting, personal due diligence, and vigilance within departmental/unit activities and operations.
Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
- Excellent academic background, preferably with a degree in business, finance, or a quantitative discipline
Years & Nature of Experience
- 5+ years of equivalent experience in a Corporate Treasury or Risk Management department in the financial services sector
- As an individual contributor, acts as the subject matter expert for a key process in the organization, typically leading design work in their area
- Has led technical or process areas; excels at leading teams and working effectively with other areas and stakeholders outside their function
- If a manager of others, has impacted team culture through their work
- Demonstrated ability to link technical contributions back to business impact for their team or area
- Strong understanding of risk, liquidity, and financial products
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills
- Ability to synthesize complex data sets and problems and conceptualize appropriate solutions.
Technical Competencies
- Asset and Liability Management
- Market Risk Management
- Business Continuity Planning
- Business Environment Analysis
- Ethical Culture
Behavioral Competencies
- Problem Solving
- Decision Making
- Communication
- Interpersonal Skills
