Risk Control Specialist

For our banking client we are currently looking for Risk Control Specialist:

START: 02.11.15

Duration: 12 months

Location: Zürich

DESCRIPTION
The Risk Control Operations (RCO) team reports to the Risk Chief Operating Officer (RCOO) and owns the risk data control framework for Primary and Enterprise Wide Risk. RCO is responsible for managing the effectiveness and integrity of data sourcing for Primary and Enterprise Wide Risks across core platforms and for the production support and operations management of Primary Risk Control owned infrastructure. In addition, RCO facilitates and refines the development of future state functional and system architecture. Within this function our client requires a Data Specialist who will have primary responsibility for inbound data processing and controls for our Enterprise Wide Credit Risk Data Warehouse and the Enterprise calculation platform for Combined Stress and Statistical Risk Measures ., The candidate will also be responsible for the assessment and review of data quality exceptions created in accordance with the guidelines and principles defined in Risk's control framework. The control framework exists to ensure complete, accurate and timely population of data in the Risk Control infrastructure.

The candidate will also support the team in:

- Sourcing data from upstream systems
- Running data quality checks on manual data feeds
- Identifying and coordinating the resolution of data quality issues
- Performing tests to identify impacts on data in production due to system changes
- Providing guidance and advice to the data consumer community on data maintenance and quality issues
- Providing functional and problem management support expertise
- Initiating, coordinating and executing data cleansing activities
- Data analysis/queries and the specification of data quality monitoring processes

REQUIREMENTS:

The ideal candidate fulfils the following requirements:
- University degree, preferably with a technical or Finance background
- Experience in dealing with risk data within a large organization including Wealth Management and Investment Banking offerings
- Knowledge and experience in Risk Control, ideally covering Stress Loss and Statistical Risk Models
- Experience in data quality practices with strong analytical skills
- Ability to work to tight deadlines and handle business pressures, highly organised and able to balance numerous tasks and responsibilities
- Ability to get quickly up to speed with new processes and IT applications
- Proficiency in use of statistical software (eg SAS, R, Stata, Matlab)
- Experience with handling large datasets
- Advanced English (written and verbal)

Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.