Market Risk Manager

This is an exciting opportunity to join the UK start up of a major Chinese financial institution! You will be joining at a key moment for the organisation and have the opportunity to set up processes and systems that will reflect your experience and best practice. This is a fully bilingual role and you will need previous relevant experience. Apply here: MANDARIN speaking: Market Risk Manager

Title: MANDARIN: Market Risk Manager

Salary: £55,000 – £75,000

Sector: Finance

Location: Central London (On-site)

Contract: Permanent

Company: One of the biggest China-based financial institutions.

The role in a nutshell: You will be advising corporate clients on potential investments using your experience and industry/market knowledge.

Responsibilities:

• Analyse and manage market risk activities and limits, including analysis of VaR and stress drivers
• Develop a good understanding of stress testing scenarios, reverse stress testing and stress testing platforms to help drive improvements where necessary
• Report risk positions, limit breaches, and stress testing results for branch management and regulatory compliance
• Responsible for modelling and monitoring of IRRBB and FX transaction risk
• Review new transaction requests, identify and assess the key risk issues, including capital impacts

Requirements

• Solid experience in risk management and/or trading functions (CFA certified or equivalent is a plus)
• Extensive knowledge of Rates, FX and/or Credit markets and products
• Previous experience of derivative pricing, VaR methods, market data analysis, IRRBB and stress testing
• Solid technical skills in VBA, SQL, Matlab, and/or C++, etc
• Fluent in both English and Mandarin