VP, MARKET RISK (Prime Brokerage)
- Excellent Exposure
- Leading International Financial Institution
Our client is an international financial institution with strong heritage and offers corporations and institutions with award-winning financial solutions. To facilitate their growth, they are currently seeking a high caliber to join their APAC risk team.
Reporting to the APAC Head of Risk, you will facilitate efficient risk/return decisions, reduce volatility in operating performance and ensure that the firm's market risk profile is transparent to senior management and regulators. You will have regular dialogue with the Investment Bank trading businesses with respect to risk appetite, risk limits and individual large and complex transactions. Supporting the Asia equity market businesses, you should be familiar with key market drivers and the various risk measures used to understand the risk profile of the portfolio, specifically Value At Risk (VAR), stress testing, and qualitative risk assessments as well as working to help improve the systems and infrastructure used to examine the firm’s risk. Monitoring of market risk positions with the aim to identify material risks, concentrations and tail risks to ensure no surprise. Conduct ad hoc risk scenario analysis for and respond to urgent requests from senior risk and trading management. Understand the factors that drive risk and P&L on the books, follow market movement/activities affecting positions, highlight and discuss risk changes and top risks. Assist in limit escalations and monitor key control processes. Improve risk transparency, methodologies and reports by conducting deep-dives on various basis risks, curve risks, specific structure risks etc. Coordinate with various departments on projects relating to VaR, stress, risk reporting and interact extensively with technology support teams relating to methodology and infrastructure changes and improvements.
To qualify, you will be a degree holder with a minimum of 7 years of relevant experience with strong knowledge of Asian equity markets and products, including derivatives together with excellent written and spoken communication skills. You must be able to converse with a wide variety of groups, a strong sense of accountability and able to work independently. Lastly, you should possess strong analytical skills and be highly numerate together with sound understanding of quantitative concepts relating to risk sensitivity, P&L explain, VaR and stress testing.
Interested applicants should send a detailed resume to Michelle Ho by email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. quoting reference 4835.
(Applicants not contacted within 4 weeks should consider their application unsuccessful.)