Senior Market Risk Analyst

About Standard Chartered
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The Role Responsibilities

We are currently looking for a Senior Market Risk Analyst based in Singapore to provide support to monitor and analyze market risk activities undertaken by Financial Markets (Trading) and Treasury-Markets (ALM/non-trading) for Singapore, Philippines and Brunei.

The successful applicant will have responsibilities / challenges to

• prepare daily, monthly and other periodic risk reports within stipulated time / SLA.
• provide analysis of risk exposures, commentaries and analysis of variances.
• monitor compliances of market risk limits, investigate and report excesses.
• review processes for effective delivery of risk information and maintain computing spreadsheets (EUCs) as per group Operational Risk Framework.
• provide management information on periodic basis to relevant stakeholders.
• prepare papers for country risk committees and provide detailed commentaries for movements.
• support Manager in periodic limit review process by providing historical limit utilisations, summarising limit changes and preparing papers for limit reviews.
• support VaR back-testing and stress-testing processes and perform analyses where required.
• liaise with stakeholders, including Financial Markets, Treasury-Markets, Country Finance and Treasury-Risk and provide market risk analysis / information as and when required.
• liaise with internal / external auditors and respond to queries as required.
• support Manager to liaise with regulators by providing necessary information/ analysis as and when required.
• support Manager to ensure compliance with all relevant Group and local policies and procedures, including but not limited to Market Risk policies and Operational risk policies
• support to prepare Market Risk related regulatory returns.
• support Manager in adhoc projects.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Honors/Masters degree in Finance / Accounting or in a quantitative area is preferred. Professional qualifications i.e. CFA, FRM will be added advantage.
• Working knowledge with Market Risk capital/computation will be an advantage.
• 3-6 years of experience in relevant field with proven track record in achieving challenging performance objectives.
• Strong proficiency in Excel with VBA & Macros is required.
• Self-motivated, energetic, result oriented.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication (both verbal & writing) skills.
• Willingness and ability to work and deliver on tight/challenging deadlines.
• Good understanding of balance sheet, market risk concepts, risk measurement tools/techniques and ability to assess risk
• Knowledge of Global Markets products and support systems like Murex, OPICS, FERMAT, etc. will be added advantage.

Apply now to join the Bank for those with big career ambitions.