Analyst - Middle Office/Risk Mgmt - Inv Bank

Analyst - middle office/risk management for one of the top 3 banks in Saudi Arabia

Employment title : Analyst - Balance sheet management

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Department: Treasury

Typically reports to: Head - Balance Sheet Management

Job Responsibilities:

- Working with Treasury and Finance professionals, Risk Managers and individuals within businesses in order to understand and dimension, report, monitor and communicate risks.

- Work with members of the team, Business Treasurers and Independent Risk to assess the reasonability and completeness of the assumptions used to produce the results

- The role will create a focused balance sheet analysis and risk management capability within the wider BSM team which will also have responsibility for treasury related management information. It is a key part of the control framework within the team, providing a capability to calculate and report risk metrics

- The Job holder is obliged to abide by any additional instructions provided by his Manager with respect to the scope of work.

Educational Qualifications:

Maths/Engineering Degree with CFA/FRM. MBA would be an added plus

Professional Experience:

Minimum 5 years banking out of which 3 years should be in Treasury middle office/risk management

Personal requirements:

- Extensive knowledge of treasury and capital market products

- Excellent knowledge of derivatives and underlying mathematics

Excellent quantitaive skills

- Good knowledge of market, credit, liquidity, operational and compliance risk management

- Knowledge of Bank Operations

- Good leadership and management capability

- Excellent communication (both written and verbal) and presentation skills

- Language proficiency - English (compulsory) , Arabic (desirable)

- Strategic thinking

- Superior Analytical skills

- Team player

- Proficient in the use of windows