Senior Risk Analyst

Position Purpose

Expected Role:

Within BNP Paribas, RISK group is responsible for calculating & providing Market and Credit Risk to traders, market and risk analysts. We are looking for a Support Analyst to provide enterprise level technical & business support to our users located globally. You will analyze all available sources of information, as well as liaising with colleagues to obtain technical & business knowledge in order to ensure quick resolution to run the business functions. The main objective is to consistently deliver high quality client services to Risk Systems users by combining industrial operational processes with sound risk knowledge. The team is responsible to ensure the correct risks are available in timely manner and to provide functional provision of the risk system to the users on a daily basis.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Understanding of the flow & overall business in investment banking
• Ensuring the accurate calculation reporting of capital measures such as value-at-risk (VaR), stress VaR, Incremental Risk Charge (IRC), Comprehensive Risk Measure (CRM) including the floor calculation, counterparty risk exposure capital and VaR-on-CVA for the perimeter covered by the approved internal models.
• Ensuring the timely re-calibration of these models and performance of back-testing to support the usage of these models for the capital declaration.
• Ensuring the accurate calculation of other critical risk measures such as credit value adjustments and market risk reserves that impact the banks P&L
• Ensuring the timely provision of other risk measures such as stress testing and greeks required by users for limit monitoring, analysis and reporting.
• Ensuring users of the system receive the agreed level of service
• Responsible Data integrity: responsible to check the data integrity within the system.Research, diagnose, troubleshoot and identify solutions to resolve functional/data issues/queries
• Able to understand KPI reporting, prepare accurate and timely reportsProvide a first level of explanation on level and the movements of the risk metrics displayed and computed within Risk Systems: Risk Sensitivities, Capital Charges, Reserves, Stress Tests, CVA, Limits, and Exposure.
• Appropriate and timely communication with all stakeholders
• Ability to operate in Agile methodology and have an understanding on deliverables.
• Experience and knowledge of financial products across asset classes
• 4 Yrs of experience of risk management experience atleast
• Maintain quality of deliverables to keep the key KPI and trends in check
• Provide input to the implementation plans
• Creative problem solving ability, inquisitive mind-set, comfortable with working on ambiguous situation
• Attention to detail and high quality standards of documentation, processes and control environment
• Flexibility (Openness to change)
• Propose and Implement Service improvements that may be in progress service Improvement.
• Sound financial product knowledge
• Leadership skills to drive E2E agenda and someone who can articulate and maintain stability under challenging situations.
• Successful candidate is expected to perform the above tasks in collaboration and agreement with the team leaders, project leads and other development staff, and where necessary with the Business Analysts, Ops Leads, FO, A & D teams, Methodology teams

Background

• Strong Functional/Data/Risk Analysis experience.
• Awareness Market and counterparty risk and Credit risk
• 4 years of Risk Management experience atleast. Overall 7 years experience cap

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Technical Qualification

• Experience in risk management and reporting role
• 3+ years experience in hands-on risk management
• Proven working experience of atleast 4 yrs in Risk Management
• Experience with working in an ITIL environment
• Ability to multi-task, work under pressure & tight deadlines
• Self-motivated and highly professional with ability to lead and take ownership and responsibility
• Strong organizational and planning skills
• Team player with strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills.
• Good hands-on experience in Unix/Linux systems and Shell or Python scripting
• Good hands-on experience in SQL.
• Knowledge of Capital Market or Market Risk and Credit Risk is key
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel/Power BI/PowerPoint/Splunk

Non-Technical Qualifications

• Excellent communication both verbal and written.
• Excellent problem-solving and logical thinking.
• Team player
• Process-oriented
• Innovation/Out-of-the-box thinking
• Positive attitude and forward thinking

Specific Qualifications (if required)

/ B.E / B. tech or equivalent

Preferred Certifications / Affiliations:

FRM/CFA certifications would be a plus.