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Market Risk Analyst - Vice President: Barclays Capital

Job ID19700
Company NameBarclays Capital
Job CategoryAccounting/Finance
LocationNew York, NY
Position TypeFull-Time, Employee
Experience0-1 Years Experience
Date PostedNovember 13, 2009
Barclays Capital
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Department Overview
Market Risk Projects is organizationally placed under Market Risk Infrastructure, which also includes two additional groups: MRE-Production and Regulatory & Capital Management. The Department delivers global, multi-asset class solutions designed to support the capture, control, and management of risk in support of Risk Management and the Business. Execute and coordinate market risk infrastructure projects in cooperation with other functional groups throughout the organization. Project management skills are essential, as well as excellent communication, leadership and analytical skills, ability to multi-task, deliver under pressure, flexibility, and willingness to execute at various levels of a project from management and planning to hands-on testing. Must have sufficient competence to add value to discussions with Line management, Risk Management, and other stakeholder groups, either within or outside of Market Risk. High level of familiarity with financial products and understanding of systems infrastructure of financial institutions is expected.

Main Function
Execute and coordinate market risk infrastructure projects in cooperation with other functional groups throughout the organization. Project management skills are essential, as well as excellent communication, leadership and analytical skills, ability to multi-task, deliver under pressure, flexibility, and willingness to execute at various levels of a project from management and planning to hands-on testing. Must have sufficient competence to add value to discussions with Line management, Risk Management, and other stakeholder groups, either within or outside of Market Risk. High level of familiarity with financial products and understanding of systems infrastructure of financial institutions is expected.

Main Duties
· Liaise with various front office, middle office and market risk teams to facilitate inception, definition, testing and implementation of Market Risk Infrastructure projects

· Produce requirements for new development projects, and contribute to detailed project planning activities for such initiatives.
· Understand and be comfortable with essential market risk concepts, including risk characteristics of different asset classes, risk sensitivities, historical VaR and other VaR methodologies. Our main customers are FI Rates, Credit/Muni, and Equity businesses, but ability to apply general market risk concepts to other products/asset classes is important.
· Design and perform testing of market risk feeds across differing asset classes.
· Provide regular communication to project sponsors and stakeholders articulating current status, issues, risks, and mitigating actions or alternative solutions
· Demonstrate flexibility. Be able to cover variety of asset classes and get involved with tasks that may differ from your immediate role. Support adhoc requests without loss of engagement with current project workload.


Person Requirements
Required:
Business or Technical degree 3 to 7 years in a top tier institution (or equivalent) exposed to Market Risk, delivery of projects, and / or product analysis, and understanding of systems and processes
Preferred:
Numerate post graduate or professional qualification such FRM, PRM, or CFA. Value at Risk experience and related systems exposure. Experience across multiple asset classes including fixed income, equities, commodities, credit, and fx.


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