DirectorStrategic Portfolio Risk Management

OPPORTUNITY

c£130-160kplus benefits & bonus

ROLE PROFILE

About the role The role is to drive the on-going development, sale and delivery of highly sophisticated technical risk solutions to our banking clients, in relation to the market context mentioned above, as part of our Portfolio Management and Modelling proposition. The aim of the proposition will be to provide banking clients with a full analytical and decision making capability to transform their performance in the new environment, encompassing:

• Strategy• Analytics and models• Data and information infrastructure, governance and control

Further responsibilities of the role include:

• Managing the full life cycle of a portfolio of client engagements• Active participation in the account service teams• Active participation in the leadership of the WBCM and Risk practice areas• Development (including recruitment and coaching) of more junior team members• Contribution to thought leadership and marketing initiatives • Collaboration with other relevant practice areas in Consulting and other lines of service (e.g. Assurance, Deals, Tax)• Development and maintenance of professional network and relationship with key senior officers at target clients.

EXPERIENCE

Candidates interested in this opportunity will be able to demonstrate all or most of the following;

• Significant experience in the banking sector covering a variety of professional roles. Preferably Capital Markets / Wholesale but with ability to operate credibly across the spectrum of banking business groups (including into wealth and insurance operations). Strong working knowledge of banking regulation.

• Recent industry experience – either via a direct role or secondment.• Business strategy and planning experience.• Strong intellectual and technical risk skills in the key risk categories (credit, market etc.), applications (control, modelling,

governance, financing, decision analysis) and infrastructure requirements.• A good understanding of the role of risk management in helping an organisation achieves its business goals.• Excellent understanding of portfolio risk modelling – including risk and regulatory aggregation and allocation, risk appetite and

limit setting, deal and sub-portfolio profitability assessment, risk-related regulation (such as Basel III), portfolio shaping (from a risk and regulatory perspective)

• Experience of advice and implementation support in risk functional design and build (encompassing organisation, governance, process and infrastructure);

• Knowledge of model design and validation• Minimum first-class BSc (preferably MSc or PhD) in a highly quantitative (applied mathematical) discipline.• Communication skills, with particular emphasis on communicating technical complexity to both technical and non-technical

audiences.• Very strong modelling skills with practical experience• Deep knowledge and direct experience of at least two of the following: stress testing, back-testing, Basel III, IMM submission,

CVA/DVA, Fundamental Review of the Trading Book.• Strong people management and client relationship skills including inter-personal sensitivity, influencing and negotiation skills.• Ability to develop good client/internal client handling skills, including relationship-building skills that lead to increased

consulting opportunities.• Creativity and problem-solving skills in individual, team and collaborative consultant-client settings.• Exceptional project and financial management skills with a track record of delivering complex programmes to budget and

within time-scales.

Contact: Ben GoodfellowEmail: ben.goodfellow@jcwresourcing.comPhone: +44203 589 9300

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