Risk Expert

Nordea; Stockholms kommun; Hybrid; SEK 800,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Nordea benefits

Job summary

Nordea in Sweden seeks a Risk Expert to join the Counterparty Credit Risk team in a permanent, full‑time role. You will produce and analyze risk reporting, support governance, and collaborate with risk, front office, finance, and technology colleagues.

You will translate complex data into clear commentary, develop dashboards, and contribute to stress testing, data quality, and control routines. A strong quantitative background and CCR concepts, with SQL/Python/R and Power BI experience, are

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of Counterparty Credit Risk concepts (exposure measures, collateral, CVA, limit utilisation).
• Experience producing management information, executive summaries, dashboards, and regulatory reporting inputs.
• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, Python, R, and Power BI for data extraction, analysis, and visualization.
• Experience in banking, financial services, risk management, or regulatory reporting.

Responsibilities

• Produce and enhance CCR reports for management, committees, risk owners, and regulators.
• Analyse movements in exposure measures and collateral, review data integrity and breaches.
• Investigate data breaks, outliers, concentrations, exemptions, and emerging risk themes.
• Prepare concise executive commentary on drivers, trends, and risk outlooks.

Skills

CCR concepts

Risk analytics

Stakeholder communication

Regulatory awareness

Data visualization

Education

Degree in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, engineering, or CS

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Power BI

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

We are looking for a Risk Expert to join our team. This is a permanent, full-time position.

About Our Team

Meet the Counterparty Credit Risk team, which is a part of Group Financial Risk. Our role is to support the monitoring, analysis, reporting, and governance of counterparty credit risk across derivatives, securities financing, and related trading activities.

Our team is responsible for providing high-quality counterparty credit risk reporting, analytics, and insights to support senior management, risk committees, and regulatory stakeholders. We monitor exposure, limit utilisation, collateralisation, stress outcomes, concentrations, exceptions, and key risk drivers across counterparties and portfolios. Translate complex risk data into clear management information, commentary, dashboards, and decision‑ready reporting. Contribute to strong governance, data quality, controls, and continuous improvement across the CCR reporting lifecycle.

Collaboration. Ownership. Passion. Courage. These are the values that guide us in how we work and how we make decisions – and that we imagine you share with us.

What You’ll Be Doing

Key Responsibilities

• Produce and enhance daily, monthly, quarterly, and ad hoc counterparty credit risk reports for management, committees, risk owners, and regulatory stakeholders.
• Analyse movements in Current Exposure, Potential Future Exposure, Exposure at Default, Expected Positive Exposure, Pre‑Settlement Risk, collateral, stress results, and limit utilisation.
• Investigate exposure changes, data breaks, outliers, concentration risks, breaches, exceptions, and emerging risk themes.
• Prepare concise executive commentary explaining key drivers, trends, risk appetite metrics, issues, and forward‑looking risk outlooks.
• Support stress testing and scenario analysis across market factors, counterparty concentrations, collateral, margin period of risk, liquidity stress, and reverse stress scenarios.
• Maintain and strengthen controls, reconciliations, data quality checks, reporting procedures, and escalation routines.
• Support audits, regulatory requests, framework assessments, remediation plans, and governance submissions.
• Partner with risk management, credit risk, trading, finance, model risk, technology, data, audit, and regulatory teams to ensure complete, accurate, timely, and actionable reporting.

Technical And Data Capabilities

• Experience working with CCR systems, exposure engines, risk data warehouses, reporting databases, collateral systems, and workflow tools.
• Ability to reconcile outputs across source systems, reporting layers, finance processes, capital processes, and downstream reporting outputs.
• Understanding of data lineage, data ownership, data controls, issue management, and change impact assessment.
• Ability to build repeatable analytics processes, dashboards, exception reports, reconciliations, control checks, and automated workflows.

Governance and Control Expectations

• Maintain robust documentation of reporting processes, assumptions, controls, limitations, issues, and escalation paths.
• Support risk governance forums through clear reporting, issue updates, remediation tracking, and management action follow‑up.
• Apply a control mindset to ensure reporting is complete, accurate, timely, granular, and fit for effective risk oversight.
• Contribute to process improvement, reporting automation, control enhancement, and remediation of legacy data or process dependencies.

Stakeholder Management and Communication

• Communicate complex risk concepts clearly and confidently to senior stakeholders and non‑technical audiences.
• Engage constructively with cross‑functional teams across risk, front office, finance, data, technology, model risk, audit, and regulatory engagement.
• Challenge data, assumptions, explanations, control gaps, and remediation plans in a professional and evidence‑based manner.
• Coordinate inputs from multiple teams, manage reporting deadlines, and maintain high standards of accuracy under time pressure.

Who You Are

The role requires a strong combination of risk-domain expertise, data analytics capability, regulatory awareness, reporting discipline, and stakeholder communication skills.

• Success Profile
• Risk-focused analytical professional with strong attention to detail and a structured problem‑solving mindset.
• Comfortable working with complex data, technical systems, regulatory requirements, and senior management expectations.
• Able to balance deep analysis with concise communication and practical business judgment.
• Proactive in identifying reporting improvements, control enhancements, automation opportunities, and emerging risk themes.

Your background and skills include:

• Strong understanding of Counterparty Credit Risk concepts, including exposure measures, netting, collateralisation, margining, limit utilisation, Wrong‑Way Risk, concentration risk, and default management.
• Knowledge of derivatives and securities financing products, including OTC derivatives, cleared products, interest rate derivatives, FX products, repos, and securities lending.
• Working knowledge of regulatory and supervisory expectations relevant to CCR, including CRR, Basel standards, SA‑CCR, IMM, CVA risk, stress testing expectations, BCBS 239, and data quality principles.
• Experience producing management information, executive summaries, dashboards, risk commentary, committee materials, and regulatory reporting inputs.
• Strong analytical skills with experience investigating large datasets, exposure movements, portfolio concentrations, risk drivers, exceptions, and data quality issues.
• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, SQL, Python,R, Power BI, or similar tools for data extraction, analysis, visualisation, automation, and reporting.

It would be ideal if you also:

• Degree in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, engineering, computer science, or a related quantitative discipline.
• Professional certification such as FRM, CFA, or equivalent risk management qualification is an advantage.
• Experience in banking, financial services, risk management, counterparty credit risk, traded products, market risk, or regulatory reporting.
• Experience supporting internal model, standardised approach, capital, stress testing, ICAAP, or supervisory reporting processes is beneficial.

What We Offer

People come here when they want to get somewhere. For some, it’s to take their career to the next level. For others, it’s to break new ground within their area of expertise – in other words, with us, you will always move forward.

A culture that fosters performance and growth in one of the largest Nordic banks, offering various opportunities to evolve, develop and learn from brilliant colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a vibrant working environment.

Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the freedom of flexibility.

Diversity and inclusion are a natural part of our daily work. We know that an inclusive workplace is a sustainable one. We genuinely believe that our diverse backgrounds, experiences, characteristics and traits make us stronger together. Every day we strive to find new ways to improve diversity and inclusion within our community e.g. we have signed the European Diversity Charters in the countries where we operate to show our commitment and engage with others to continue learning and improving.

If this sounds like you, get in touch!

Next steps

We enable dreams and aspirations for a greater good.

We build relationships. We add a personal touch to everything we do – when advising our customers, collaborating with colleagues, and meeting our potential candidates.

We learn and develop. We take pride in being experts and thinking ahead. We use our expertise to meet our customers’ needs, from the simplest to the most complex. We bring a growth mindset to our work that enables us to focus on a broader perspective in our daily challenges.

We lead change. We are responsible and aware of the impact of our decisions, both for our customers and for our local and global communities. Mindful of our responsibility towards current and future generations, we have made sustainability an integrated part of our business strategy.

We are Nordea. We have a 200-year history of supporting and growing the Nordic economies and our values are deeply rooted in these open, progressive and collaborative societies. As one of the biggest employers in the Nordics, Poland and Estonia, you have excellent opportunities to evolve, develop and move forward with us.

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