RSK - Risk Methodology Group Professional

Job highlights

• . Actuaries (Cleared at least 5 CT papers) would be advantage . FRM / PRM/CFA certification would be added advantage . *The benefits are subject to change and will be in accordance with Company s policies as may be applicable from time to time)
• . 810 years of experience in Market risk with good understanding of risk modelling

The Risk Management Division encompasses the firms comprehensive risk framework responsible for determining and managing the overall risk appetite for the firm. The division is responsible for effectively managing the firms riskreturn profile which ensures the efficient deployment of the firms capital. It is one of the firms core competencies and is independent of the trading areas and operational areas.

Business Unit Overview:

The Risk Methodologies Group (RMG) has the mandate to develop / enhance risk models in line with internal and regulatory requirements and to backtest VaR against Hypo and clean PnL. The methodologies side of the group has the critical task of owning all the risk models that are used for computing capital adequacy for the whole firm, and the backtesting group of adjusting and updating Hypo PnL using adjustments provided by various different systems. The group works extensively on the regulatory capital model, including the proposed regulation, fundamental review of trading book (FRTB).

Position Specifications:

Corporate Title

Vice President

Functional Title

Vice President

Qualification

Master s in quantitative discipline (B.E / B. Tech+, M. Tech, MSc (Maths / Stats/ Physics), Econometrics)

Role Responsibilities:

• Work closely with different stakeholders including Front Office, Risk Managers, IT and Risk Methodologies Group (RMG) on projects related to Regulatory capital models (eg. FRTB).

• Perform firm wide plus desk level analysis to assess the impact of new regulation and support in quantitative impact study (QIS).

• Act as a subject matter expert for the risk models including an understanding of FRTB guidelines and providing support to the model users (i.e. Risk managers) and be a key point of contact with respect to such models.

• Ensure that the FRTB SA IMA models meet their stated objectives by building robust SBA, RRAO, SA DRC, Risk factor eligibility test tools, NMRF SES, IMA DRC and IMA ESF methodologies.

• Development of prototype models related to Model performance Monitoring of FRTB models.

• Implementation of risk models into strategic risk system (this includes developing methodology, building prototype, writing technical business requirement document, performing model testing, ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and liaising with model validation group).

• Create strategic tools for deal analysis/RWA driver analysis/NMRF Addon/PnL Adjustment/Back testing using python to facilitate integration with FRTB implementation and offline calculation of risk numbers.

• Build FRTB based WhatIf prototype tools in collaboration with Business / Risk Managers for new portfolio / hedge impact analysis

• Participate in periodic review of models and calibration of model parameters.

• Provide necessary support to team during validation of market risk models by Model validation group/Audit including any model change on an ongoing basis .

• Need to handle stakeholder requests (typically FO and Risk Managers) on RWA optimization and WhatIf analysis. This would involve:

• Working with stakeholders across different timezones to understand their requests

• Running and explaining "WhatIf" scenarios (e.g. different split of IMA/SA desk scenarios, pretrade capital impact etc.)

• Understanding of capital allocation methodologies (e.g Euler) to accurately identify key drivers of capital

• Preparing the necessarily materials to explain the results

• Presenting the results to stakeholders

• Support with building tools that help in making the above processes more timeefficient

• Holding technical workshops to educate stakeholders on how FRTB SA and IMA models work

Mind Set:

Mandatory

Desired

Domain

• Need to have expertise on all FRTB capital models as well as PLA/ RFET. Need to have already worked on SA and IMA models

• Experience with handling stakeholder requests (typically FO and Risk Managers)

• Strong Market Risk RWA modelling background (preferably on FRTB SA and IMA models) and coding skills in Python

• Good in SQL / Excel. Even basic ability is acceptable.

• Gitlab understanding.

• VaR / Greeks / clarity in risk management.

• 810 years of experience in Market risk with good understanding of risk modelling.

• Good understanding of mathematical concepts like probability, statistics, calculus, linear algebra.

• Good understating of financial products (Bonds, Derivatives)

• A strong Mathematical/Statistical background.

• Actuaries (Cleared at least 5 CT papers) would be advantage

• FRM/PRM/CFA certification would be added advantage

*The benefits are subject to change and will be in accordance with Company s policies as may be applicable from time to time).