Senior Enterprise Risk Manager for Risk Appetite Concept

SENIOR ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGER FOR RISK APPETITE CONCEPT

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Currently we are looking for a Senior Enterprise Risk Manager for Risk Appetite Conceptto join our client's team in Zurich.

The role is providing development functions for the Investment Bank's Global Credit Risk systems, consisting of a number of high-profile applications, with a user base running to several thousands.

OVERVIEW OF BUSINESS AREA/PROJECT:

The new LECH ERM team coordinates the formulation of the risk appetite statement and the delivery of the scenario/stress analysis for the LECH Board of Directors, Senior Management and relevant regulators. The team is to play a key role in encompasses maintaining an adequate LECH risk governance processes, defining the risk appetite, analysing specific stress scenarios, and evaluating LECH capital adequacy while ensuring consistency of the risk framework and stress testing with both the client's global framework and local requirements. This involves close collaboration with central ERM, global risk functions and Front Office management to design, monitor and ensure adherence to the risk appetite.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Support the development of risk framework and scenario definitions, concepts and projects and ensuring alignment and appropriateness for International Wealth Management and Swiss Universal Bank divisions and Legal Entity Switzerland.
- Definition and documentation of relevant processes and roles and responsibilities in terms of risk appetite framework operation and governance to ensure timely and conclusive definition and reporting of key risks and risk appetite limits.
- Setup and documentation of appropriate stress testing execution and reporting processes (incl. formats), in alignment with the relevant risk profile and internal and external requirements.
- Collaboration and coordination with Legal Entity and client's stakeholders to discuss and assess scenario and risk appetite topics.
- Supporting the setup and documentation of a holistic risk and scenario inventory.

REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:

ESSENTIAL:

- Minimum 5-7 years' experience in analytical risk function in banking (strategic or quantitative risk management)
- Strong analytical thinking to pick up and adapt new concepts quickly and analyze implications.
- Good organization and coordination skills and ability to challenge quality and consistency of documents.
- Excellent spoken and written English.
- Strong MS Office, particularly Excel and Powerpoint.

DESIRED:

-Experience with risk appetite, stress testing and regulatory submissions, esp. Pillar II, desired
- Willingness and ability to produce high quality, accurate work, to tight deadlines.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively.
- Strong team player with ability to work across different areas and engage key stakeholders
- German language skills are strong advantage due to team dynamic
- MS Access database knowledge

Whether this role is the right fit or you would like to see if there are others that do, our dedicated and expert team is looking forward to hearing from you.

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