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Job Description
Global Markets Risk Management serves as independent market risk oversight of the Firm's trading activities. The Global Market Risk Stress Testing team within this organization is responsible for the implementation and management of critical enterprise processes and analysis to support the global markets business and senior risk management.
The team is seeking a highly motivated individual to support market risk stress testing, including regulatory mandated stress testing activities, formal and ad-hoc scenario analysis. The candidate in this role will have a wide range of responsibilities from evaluating new and emerging risks in the portfolio to ensuring that the Firm surpasses regulatory expectations. This work will require extensive engagement across risk functions and other partners across the Firm. The candidate will also be a key participant in regulatory exams related to stress testing and will become the subject matter expert on key aspects of market risk stress testing. This role will be expected to support the team's success through an individual contributor role and will have no formal management responsibilities.
This job is responsible for conducting quantitative analytics and modeling projects for specific business units or risk types. Key responsibilities include supporting models uses, analytic processes, or systems approaches, creating technical documentation for related activities, and working with Technology staff in the design of systems to run models. Job expectations include having a broad knowledge of financial markets and products.
Responsibilities:
- Performs end-to-end market risk stress testing including scenario design, scenario implementation, results consolidation, internal and external reporting, and analyzes stress scenario results to better understand key drivers
- Supports the planning related to setting quantitative work priorities in line with the bank's overall strategy and prioritization
- Identifies continuous improvements through reviews of approval decisions on relevant model development or model validation tasks, critical feedback on technical documentation, and effective challenges on model development/validation
- Performs statistical analysis on large datasets and interprets results using both qualitative and quantitative approach
- Ensure success of the Firm's trading and counterparty stress testing processes
- Analyze scenario analysis results to understand the key drivers
- Work with subject matter experts to create presentations and documentation for stress testing activities
- Engage with technology and data partners to improve the technology platforms used to manage the processes
Minimum Education Requirement: Master's degree in related field or equivalent work experience
Required Qualifications:
- Incumbents typically have less than 10 years of experience in the financial industry, ideally with exposure to market risk concepts
- Highly motivated individual who fully understands the demands of a market risk professional with ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Highly proficient at communication with ability to influence co-workers across our global team and all levels of the organization
- Intellectually curious with the ability to investigate and develop root cause analysis for issues and propose corresponding process or technology changes
- Effective time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple high priority deliverables simultaneously
Skills:
- Critical Thinking
- Adaptability
- Collaboration
- Problem Solving
- Risk Management
- Data and Trend Analysis
- Research
- Written Communications
Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)
Hours Per Week:
40