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Our client, a European institution, is looking for a Financial Risk Officer who speaks English fluently. This temporary contract starts as soon as possible.
Responsibilities:
- Resolve credit, market and structured finance risk models recommendations, use risk models for the purpose of Economic Capital and exposure forecasts, maintain methodological and technical documentation, develop back testing and monitoring assessments.
- Support the capital planning and reporting processes (e.g. Economic capital, exposure reports) via operationalisation, calibration and maintenance of financial risk quantification processes, data aggregation and financial risk analysis.
- Support the implementation of capital and financial risk methodologies through the institution.
- Automation of financial risk quantification processes.
Qualifications:
- University degree, preferably at postgraduate level, in Quantitative Finance, Mathematics, Physics, Actuarial sciences, Data science, Engineering or related fields;
- A minimum of three (3) years' relevant professional experience in financial risk;
- Excellent knowledge of English, both oral and written. Knowledge of other EU languages would be an advantage.
Competencies:
- Professional level experience with Python, SQL and Excel.
- Experience working with data extraction, transformation and control processes.
- Experience implementing reconciliation and data quality controls.
- Ability to work within tight deadlines, to react swiftly and effectively to new situations in a client-focussed and high-quality service environment;
- Excellent organisational skills with an ability to prioritise;
- Disciplined approach whilst maintaining creativity and lateral thinking towards troubleshooting and problem-solving;
- Excellent interpersonal skills for dealing with internal and external counterparts;
- Team player.
