Specialist - Risk and Capital Management Analyst - Sandton, South Africa - Absa Bank Limited

Absa Bank Limited
Absa Bank Limited
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Sandton, South Africa

1 week ago

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  • With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary

To provide specialist advice and support in area of specialisation enabling the effective implementation of risk frameworks.


Job Description:


The Risk and Capital Management Specialist is vital in identifying and responding to regulatory change and updates to the market risk capital regime while ensuring the highest internal standards and governance are adhered to.

This person must continuously seek ways to contribute to delivery of the business.

He/She will be responsible for the regulatory reporting and the implementation of market risk regulatory and capital models, as well as ensuring that control and governance requirements are met.

The individual must ensure that best practices are in place through efficient and scalable processes.

Accountability:
Market and Valuation Risk Oversight

  • Governance and Control_
  • Understand and comply with all applicable governance, compliance and risk policies and procedures, ensuring that the relevant documentation is in place.
  • Risk Evaluation_
  • Identify market, regulatory or other developments which may affect market and valuation risk models and methodologies.
  • Understand the intricacies of new regulatory approaches so as to develop and implement appropriate models and advise business on impact on the potential riskweighted returns.
  • Risk Monitoring and Measurement_
  • Monitor changes in regulations and legislation and ensure firm is informed and educated on relevant topics by taking responsibility for rolling out necessary changes.
  • Understand the drivers behind regulatory changes.
  • Review of existing measurement methodologies and recommend improvements where necessary.
  • Establish an appropriate risk reporting and monitoring framework, ensuring businesses are aligned to governance framework and defined risk appetite.

Accountability:
Capital Management

  • Ensure that appropriate models are used for accurate market risk measurement and capital calculations for both regulatory and management purposes.
  • Establish and maintain selective daily / monthly / quarterly risk and capital measurement and forecasting processes.

Accountability:
Projects and Innovation

  • Drive enhancements of processes by measuring the effectiveness of all procedures. Review of existing measurement methodologies and recommend improvements where necessary.
  • Implement best practices as relevant and proactively find valueadds to the business and timely respond to business needs.
  • Be part of the process to bring regulatory capital pricing drivers into markets trading decisionmaking.

Accountability:
Stakeholder and Relationship Management

  • Lead by example in building strong relationships.
  • Establish and nurture influential relationships with a wide network across the organisation in order to identify synergies and optimally leverage relationships, knowledge, services and resources to provide superior solutions.
  • Timely escalation of potential issues to relevant stakeholders.
Education and Experience Required

  • Post Graduate qualification in Commerce, Finance, Risk Management, Statistical or Mathematical essential
  • 2+ years experience preferably in a market risk or related field

Knowledge & Skills:

  • Knowledge and understanding of investment banking
  • Strong understanding of financial instrument and risk across the trading spectrum
  • Understand middle and back office operations and supporting infrastructure and risk management processes
  • Knowledge of risk measures, VaR, earnings at risk, economic capital etc
  • Good communication (written and oral) and documentation skills
  • Able to adhere to strict governance and control procedures, including both internal and external requirements
  • Problem solving skills able to devolve problems into their components and identify innovative and practical solutions
  • Capability and ability to assimilate new information (able to deconstruct problems into their components and identify innovative and practical solutions)

Competencies:

  • Creating and innovating
  • Formulating strategies and concepts
  • Delivering results and meeting expectations
  • Coping with pressure and setbacks
  • Adhering to principles and values
  • Adapting and responding to change
Education

Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas:
Business, Commerce and Management Studies (required)

  • Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised_
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