Counterparty Risk Senior Analyst

About the job

• The position is a Counterparty Risk Senior Analyst role within RISK Market & Financial Institutions (“RISK MFI”)
• RISK MFI provides the Senior Management of the Group, of the RISK Function and of Corporate & Institutional Banking (“CIB”) with full transparency and dynamic analysis and monitoring of market, counterparty, liquidity risks originated and managed by CIB GM and of credit risks on Financial Institutions in order to assist them in their risk decision making and monitoring
• The Counterparty Risk Senior analyst main missions are related to analysing electronic trading generated risks, analysing the variation of Stress Test metrics on specific trading portfolio or counterparties, deep diving on specific market risk metrics, reviewing the relevance or the calibration of some limits, investigating and solving with stakeholders the root causes of limit excesses. The senior analyst regularly reports about the metrics they investigate
• We are looking for a profile with proven market risk experience who can rapidly understand new market or counterparty risk concepts and metrics, provide quantitative or statistical analysis about a certain scope, formulating their conclusions in an easy-to-read format
• The role requires agility to regularly onboard oneself onto new topics to support the analysis or monitoring conducted by other team members
• The candidate needs to be comfortable working in “project mode” and very regularly iterating improvements in their analysis

Your Main Activities Are

• Regularly evaluate the performance of the Counterparty Risk pricers and methodologies and propose improvements. 
• Analyse the impact of Counterparty Risk methodologies on counterparty risk metrics. 
• Continuously develop and improve a critical opinion about the data set used in the metrics under investigations and their methodologies, highlight key data quality issues. 
• Prepare committees related to counterparty risk pricers and prevent investigations outcome to the relevant counterparty risk managers. 
• Lead small projects to improve the efficiency and reliability of the team processes or developing alternative way to interpret the metrics and data sets used by the team. 
• Maintain documentation of the methodology used to adjust Counterparty Risk Metrics. 
• Run the production of Counterparty Risk regulatory capital. 
• Support client-facing teams when simulating the impact of new transactions on existing counterparty risk exposures notably for more complex transactions. 
• Maintain regular interactions with Counterparty Risk Managers in both the RISK function and Global Markets, with methodology owners and counterparty risk monitoring teams. 
• Answer ad-hoc requests from supervisors related to counterparty risk exposure and own specific reporting to such supervisors. 

Profile and Skills to Success

• Master’s degree in Finance, Applied Mathematics, Science or Engineering
• 4 to 7 years of working experience in Market risk or Counterparty risk
• Good knowledge of Financial & Risk management concepts as well as derivatives products
• Ability to gather, prioritize and integrate large amounts of information, to process and simplify it
• Ability to systematically produce relevant analysis with accurate, precise, and verified information
• Ability to act in advance of a future situation, to take control and initiatives to implement relevant actions in the short and long term.
• Able to identify solutions to overcome obstacles and drive results to conclusion working autonomously and implementing work processes, ideas, and solutions with tenacity.
• Effectively deliver complex oral and written messages in a clear, structured, accurate and concise manner, based on facts
• Value and integrate client’s feedback to improve products, services, and processes

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