Head of Risk Analytics Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Head of Risk Analytics to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Proactively participate in the firm’s decision making process for strategic risk system development;
- Proactively participate in the firm’s and the group’s initiatives to implement upcoming changes in regulatory capital methodology;
- Review and enhance the internal capital framework and methodology;
- Building out a high calibre DevOps capability to automate the development lifecycle;
- Support the Deputy Chief Risk Officer to ensure the firm wide risk management is running efficiently;
- Conduct regular reviews with Risk Managers to ensure areas such as VAR, Stress Testing and back testing;
- Participate and contribute to group wide in relation to regulatory capital methodology;
- Building highly talented, capable and agile technology team;
- maintain and scale on-prem and cloud infrastructure and help migrate to our Azure based internal cloud;
- Establish code management practices as well as the build/release processes;
- Designing, building and testing high quality innovative XVA distributed computing solution on the cloud;
- Review and enhance capital risk methodology.
Requirements:
- Detailed knowledge of many risk measurement methodology techniques and the ability to assess the most appropriate for our business is also essential;
- Ability to assimilate large amounts of data and transform into consumable information;
- Detailed knowledge of, and recent exposure to derivative products in the market risk management arena is essential;
- Track record of delivering change to process and procedures where deemed beneficial to the recipient;
- Ability to pro-actively generate ideas for improving risk framework and methodology;
- Track record of critically assessing priorities on a materiality basis and looking for the most efficient execution path;
- Ability to communicate at all levels and deliver technical explanations to the lay-man as well as the practitioner;
- Ability to constructively influence other departments and individuals;
- Track record of working for establishing and maintaining capital management frameworks.