Associate Director (VP) Market Risk - Global Structured Interest Rate (SRT) Products

RBC; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global bank is seeking a professional to promote risk oversight in the London market. You will manage interest rate risks and support stress-testing for the structured products business. Candidates with a strong quantitative background and knowledge of financial instruments will excel in this dynamic role. Join a committed team to drive innovation and support business growth with strong communication and analytical skills.

Benefits

Comprehensive Total Rewards Program

Opportunities for development

Dynamic and collaborative team environment

Qualifications

• Diligence and attention to detail are essential.
• Ability to work under time pressure is required.
• In-depth knowledge of interest rate option markets needed.

Responsibilities

• Run the market risk reporting processes accurately.
• Assist the Director with key projects and deliverables.
• Communicate emerging trends and facilitate discussions.

Skills

Communication

Decision Making

Economic Analysis

Financial Instruments

Investment Risk Management

Market Analysis

Market Risk

Risk Management

Education

Strong quantitative degree or equivalent

Tools

Python

Tableau

Job description

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

You will be helping in promoting a Best of Class risk oversight environment for the London, Tokyo and Global Structured Interest Rate (SRT) business (interest rate exotic products).

The role has hands-on experience in managing interest rate exotic risks in order to assist Group Risk Management (GRM) and the Business in helping stress-test the SRT trading books and products.

Additionally, the role requires good technical expertise across both interest rate models and IT systems, as you will also be involved in implementing Stress/Regulatory Capital scenarios for SRT globally (in the production environment) and working closely with Group Risk Analytics, Risk IT, and North America GRM to ensure consistency across the platform.

What will you do?

• Run the market risk reporting processes and ensure timely and accurate reporting of all relevant risk metrics by ensuring all limit breaches are correctly tracked and reported and ensuring the trading desk adheres to the bank risk appetite, including limits/thresholds and compliance with limit/stress framework.
• Assist the Director of Structured Products on key projects and deliverables.
• Look at the requirements of any new business activity and ready the SRT Local Market Risk team with the appropriate risk controls and framework ahead of trade commencement.
• Take a keen interest in further enhancements to the daily Single Risk Factor, PCA and ad hoc scenario frameworks that GRM actively uses to assess both positioning and structural risks in the SRT books.
• Actively communicate emerging trends/risks and facilitate discussions with trading desks and senior management.
• Develop into a subject matter expert for all Felix-related development work within the GRM domain for the SRT books, and be the key point of contact for business and other wider market risk teams.
• Help develop new and/or improve existing reporting infrastructure wherever required including new risk analytics to improve risk infrastructure.
• On request, help provide ad-hoc analysis on trading strategies and products, RBCCM risk tolerance and objectives.
• Clearly communicate any deficiencies in risk process and infrastructure and facilitate remediation.
• Assisting the MCCR Strategic Developer in automating and enhancing the daily risk monitoring.

What do you need to succeed?

Must-have

• Diligence and attention to detail.
• Desire and motivation to deep-dive into complex and structured products to understand the inherent risks.
• Be able to work under time pressure.
• A strong quantitative degree or similar/equivalent.
• In-depth knowledge of interest rate option markets and primary risk drivers of those markets/products.
• Communication skills to clearly explain/summaries the market risk views to the trading desk and the senior leadership team.
• As a technical requirement, a reasonably good understanding of Value-at-Risk measurement stress testing and scenario analysis and Greeks Sensitivity analysis specific to the SRT business.
• Reasonable proficiency in Python and Tableau.

Nice-to-have

• Hands-on experience working on a risk/trading desk at a financial company in a quantitative/programming role.
• Strong leadership skills and vision; proven record of leading a team/project and delivering value-added results.

What is in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best - progressive thinking to keep growing and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses, flexible benefits and competitive compensation
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Opportunities to work with the best in the field
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• A world-class training program in financial services.

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Job Skills

• Communication, Decision Making, Economic Analysis, Financial Instruments, Group Problem Solving, Investment Risk Management, Market Analysis, Market Risk, Risk Management

Additional Job Details

• Address: 100 BISHOPSGATE: LONDON
• City: London
• Country: United Kingdom
• Work hours/week: 35
• Employment Type: Full time
• Platform: GROUP RISK MANAGEMENT
• Job Type: Regular
• Pay Type: Salaried
• Posted Date: 2025-11-21
• Application Deadline: 2025-12-05
• Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

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