Risk Manager

Risk Manager

New York, NY, USA


Responsibilities 

  • Build  good relationships with the traders and managers, advise and enlighten their understanding of material market and credit risks.
  • Report on the impact of market events on current market risk positions to the Director.
  • Identify gaps, weaknesses or opportunities for improvement in the Corporate Policy and Standards supporting market risk-related activities and to address these through recommendations to the MD Risk Oversight. 
  • Send technical, analytical, and conceptual information regarding market  measurement/methodology to traders and management.
  • Ensure the Market Risk objectives are met. 
  • Provide direction to VPC and Risk Reporting Group.
  • Ensure risk factors and risk measurement methodologies are updated in response to changes in market dynamics.
  • Work with the internal auditors.
  • Make a recommendation for appropriate risk limits and ensure processes are in place to monitor against limits. 
  • Develop, publish, issue, update and file maintenance of Trading Authority letters.
  • Work with managers to approve or recommend one-off transactions, or full implementation of new trading products.


Qualifications:

  • 4 years of experience within a market risk group or similar control function within Capital Markets.
  • Excellent understanding of global financial markets and products.
  • Have a  knowledge of option “greeks” and topics concerning derivatives pricing.
  • Advanced knowledge of EXCEL, MS Access, PowerPoint, MS Word, computer programming.
  • Good knowledge of statistics.
  • Experience with equity and interest rate derivatives a plus.
  • Analytical and problem solving skills.
  • Ability to deal with conflict resolution .
  • Strong communication skills.
  • Having the ability to work independently and within a team.



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