Market Risk Analyst: Regulatory and Capital Management

Absa Group; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution in Africa seeks a Risk and Capital Management Specialist. This role involves managing market risk, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and enhancing risk measurement processes. The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, strong skills in regulatory reporting, and the ability to build influential relationships within the organization. This position offers an opportunity to contribute significantly to the bank's risk governance and control framework.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to comply with governance and risk policies.
• Experience in regulatory reporting and market risk management.
• Expertise in developing market and valuation risk models.

Responsibilities

• Oversee market and valuation risk by ensuring compliance.
• Monitor regulatory changes and adapt practices accordingly.
• Establish and maintain risk reporting frameworks.

Skills

Understanding of governance, compliance and risk policies

Regulatory reporting

Market risk measurement methodologies

Strong relationship management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Commerce, or Management Studies

Job description

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

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

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.

Job Description

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 risk-weighted 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 value-adds to the business and timely respond to business needs.
• Be part of the process to bring regulatory capital pricing drivers into markets trading decision-making.

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

Bachelor’s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

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