Risk Information Services - Analyst

RISK INFORMATION SERVICES- ANALYST/TIER 1 BANK/LONDON/6 MONTHS/£200 - 250 PER DAY

ESSENTIAL:

- Investment banking experience
- Solid and in-depth "Value at Risk" (VaR) experience (ideally 1 year +)
- Market risk management/reporting experience in one of the following Asset Classes. FX/Rates, Fixed Income Credit, Commodities, Equities and Emerging Markets
- Prior experience in market risk/risk reporting/VBA & SQL
- Must have advanced excel and preferably SQL skills to maintain tools that will help in carrying out the responsibilities in this role
- Degree

ROLE:

My client, a tier 1 investment bank, are recruiting for a Risk Information Services Analyst. This role is for an experienced analyst for VaR & Stressed VaR reporting across different asset classes within "Risk Information Services" (RIS).

THE MAIN FUNCTIONS OF THE ROLE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:- - Production of daily stressed VaR across the investment bank.
- Drive improvements and facilitate the implementation of the daily stressed VaR reporting process.
- To be the point of contact with the Front Office risk management team, working on limits monitoring and risk analysis
- Produce "Management Information" (MI) on VaR changes/drivers and position reporting
- Assisting in production of daily risk reports that are sent to senior management, Front Office and Risk (both VaR and Position).
- Running data integrity checks around the products position reporting systems
- Adhering to and evidencing strict control practices put in place to ensure confidence in published VaR and Positional data
- Managing relationships with other operations teams that are responsible for maintaining data which impacts reporting
- Ensuring audit integrity for all MI generated from the production process and governance on Policies set out by the Bank