Risk Specialist

2 weeks ago


Singapore Tangspac Full time

Key responsibilities include:

  • Working with internal and external stakeholders
  • Detailed analysis (portfolio review, stress test) of requests to onboard a new client or increase appetite, challenge adequacy (business rationale, economics) and present recommendation to Business Risk approval forums ("NAVCos");
  • Consolidate supporting documents to NAVCos and Credit Committees, prepare agenda of preNAVCos, circulate to NAVCo Secretariat and followup on conditions to approval;
  • Followup commercial pipeline with DEC Sales team on weekly basis and highlight risk areas requiring mitigation or in breach of our appetite;
  • Work with Execution team to keep adequate limits at the execution level ( before clearing );
  • Participate in meetings with clients/ prospects to understand business profile, risk taking policy and clearing requirements; as well as with clearing houses to understand risk management and product development.

RISK MANAGEMENT THROUGH THE LIFECYCLE

  • Provide inputs and review legal document negotiation from a risk management perspective for new and existing clients during negotiations.
  • Daily monitoring of clients portfolio exposure vs. limits (hard and soft), and margin payment status, as well as followup of remediation with DEC Sales team;
  • Timely processing of operations requiring manual approval from DEC Risk such as blocked trades (due to system failure or technical issue) and clients' account limits adjustment
  • Timely escalation of stressed and special situations to management of DEC APAC, TR2S APAC and SOO APAC, for further processing (credit watchlist and/or crisis management)

RISK ANTICIPATION, CONTROL & EFFICIENCY

  • Work with Sales and RISK teams to carry out indepth analysis and provide data on client exposures during market volatility period
  • Review & circulate on a weekly basis changes in CCP margin requirements for clients during market volatility period.
  • Production of relevant daily monitoring report for APAC scope and perform scheduled data reconciliation between FO and RISK systems;
  • Contribute to timely and proper risk representation in FO and RISK chains, especially on Asian contracts;
  • Work with Operational Risk team to implement a more robust monitoring procedure for Instant Control;
  • Contribute to reviews of portfolio, business procedures, auditing exercises, firedrills and other testing of our risk assessment and management;
  • Keep up to date with Bank's risk policies and ensure alignment of business decisions.

Qualifications

Technical knowledge:

  • Financial markets (how exchanges and clearing houses function) and listed derivatives products (options and futures on commodities, equity, rates, and FX)
  • Financial analysis and counterparty credit risk (know how to read financial statements and annual reports, search complementary info on public data base incl. Bloomberg)
  • Market risk monitoring (main greeks, liquidity, stress testing) and management (limit calibration, margining, concentration threshold)

IT skills:

  • Office pack
  • Excel, Word, Powerpoint
  • Risk management tools (margin computation, VaR simulation, stress testing)


Financial information
  • Bloomberg

Linguistic skills

  • English excellent for presentation in both verbal and written communication (required)

Specific Qualifications (if required)

  • Previous experience in market risk (risk management, trading) and genuine interest in global markets
  • High sense of responsibility, punctual and reachable for regular or urgent requests
  • Eager to learn on the field, solution driven and persistent
  • Strong analytical skills and capacity to form a structured opinion
  • Experience in counterparty credit risk / CFA or CPA certified is a plus


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