Director - Risk Management - Financial Services

Director - Risk Management - Financial Services

Qualifications & Experience:

Qualifications: Relevant Masters degree with a professional qualification (CFA / FRM / PRM /CQF)

- A minimum of 10+ years working experience is required. Previous people management experience of at-least 20+ people would be an added advantage

- Strong Model Validation experience across Market risk, Credit risk, PPNR from working in an Investment banking

- Strong statistical aptitude in a modelling environment including ML techniques

- Strong regulatory knowledge across Basel, FRTB, IFRS 9

- Strong analytical skills

- Knowledge of VBA, SAS, Matlab, R, Python

- Robust project management skills

- Solid presentation skills

- Effective time management

- Strong writing skills

- Initiative and enthusiasm

- Responsibility and maturity

- People skills

- Professionalism

- Confidence to be client-facing

- Above average linguistic aptitude

- Ability to work under pressure

- Flexibility to accept change in terms of the consulting/ advisory environment

Client responsibilities

- Participate in and, as required, lead FSRM client engagements

- Develop long-term, sustainable relationships with key client stakeholders in line with our go to market strategies and individual market development initiatives

- Build and deliver relevant client solutions, based on knowledge of the client's agenda

- Develop informed views for the client on the implications of current and anticipated industry issues

- Generate new business sales through proactively managing aligned accounts, identifying new client opportunities, playing a significant role in developing and driving a sales campaign/solution

- Develop own informed views for the client on the implications of key current and anticipated industry issues through their risk management perspective

People responsibilities :

- Act as a thought leader in the field of FSRM

- Lead engagement teams and accounts

- Develop people through effectively supervising, coaching, and mentoring all levels of staff ((identifying training needs where necessary)

- Provide learning and growth opportunities to staff and encourage the potential within all staff to take on challenging opportunities

- Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for all levels of staff

- Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting, retaining and training FSRM professionals

- Maintain an educational program to continually develop own personal skills