Senior Financial Risk Manager

U.S. Bank; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in the City of London seeks a Senior Financial Risk Manager to oversee liquidity and market risks as part of the Enterprise Risk Management team. Candidates should have extensive experience in financial risk, strong communication skills, and a minimum of five years in the banking industry. Competitive benefits include a diverse, inclusive working environment that promotes career growth.

Benefits

Exciting and diverse working environment

Health and financial security benefits

Career development resources

Qualifications

• Significant Financial Risk, Capital Management or Treasury experience.
• A strong track record of working with senior stakeholders.
• Minimum of five years of banking or payment industry experience.
• Experience of stress testing, financial modeling or analytical risk reporting.

Responsibilities

• Maintain strategic perspective on market and regulatory factors affecting risk profile.
• Establish collaborative relationships with key business units.
• Provide oversight of the Bank's liquidity and market risks.
• Prepare quarterly assessment reports for Executive Risk Committee.
• Conduct annual inter-concentration risk assessment.

Skills

Strong visual, influencing analytical communication skills

Strong Analytics skills

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in a technical discipline

Masters in Risk Management or professional designation in risk/finance

Job description

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.

Job Description

The role provides an excellent opportunity for a highly experienced candidate to join the Bank’s Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) team as the Bank looks to expand its Balance Sheet optimisation programme.

The Senior Financial Risk Manager provides leadership, direction and support to the Head of Enterprise Risk in reviewing and challenging the financial risks that Enterprise Risk provides second line oversight of.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Maintaining a strategic perspective on the market, socio-economic, political, regulatory and industry-specific events, and providing management with key emerging insights into their potential implications on the Bank’s risk profile.
• Establish successful collaborative relationships with key business units and with both FLOD and SLOD stakeholders.
• Provide second line oversight of the Bank’s liquidity and market risks (including IRRBB, FX, CSRBB) through the review and challenge of the Bank’s local Treasury and Financial Risk Management teams, as well as the Bank’s ICAAP, ILAAP, and Recovery Plan documents.
• Enhance the Bank’s Market and Liquidity Risk oversight as the Bank matures and expands its Balance Sheet optimisation programme.
• Prepare quarterly assessment reports to the Bank’s Executive Risk Committee on its liquidity and market risk profiles.
• Produce periodic business model scenarios and sensitivity analysis to support the Bank’s Emerging Risk process.
• Undertaking an annual inter-concentration risk assessment across the Bank’s risk profile.
• Contribute to the enhancement of the financial risk management process through the development and calibration of Key Risk Indicators.
• Perform independent review of the Bank’s strategy and strategic risk profile to ensure sufficient second line challenge of the strategic direction.

Experience/Qualifications

• Significant Financial Risk, Capital Management or Treasury experience.
• A strong track record of working with senior stakeholders.
• At a minimum a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent within a technical discipline.
• A Masters in Risk Management, or a Professional Designation in accounting (ACA, ACCA or CIMA) or risk/finance (FRM, PRM or CFA) would be an advantage.
• Minimum of five years of banking or payment industry experience.
• Experience of stress testing, financial modeling or analytical risk reporting.

Skills/Disposition

• Strong visual, influencing analytical communication skills
• Strong Analytics skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. We are committed to providing a positive and inclusive working environment.

Benefits: We offer an exciting, fast-paced and diverse working environment with employees of many different nationalities. We provide benefits to help you protect your health and financial security; and give you peace of mind. We also invest in your career growth with development resources that give you the opportunity to stretch and shine.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.