Associate Director, Market Risk Oversight

Worker Type:

Permanent

NAB’s global network supports NAB’s Corporate and Institutional Bank (CIB) customers. The London-based Market Risk team supports the delivery of NAB’s second line risk oversight within the CIB Division. The London team provides full market risk and balance sheet and liquidity risk coverage of NAB’s business activities located in London Branch. Principal lines of business are Markets (Sales and Trading), Treasury (funding and liquidity), and Corporate Finance activities in the primary markets.

In addition, London Market Risk provides support to NAB’s European subsidiary.

This role requires a market risk professional, working in a team of six professionals, to provide independent appetite, insight, and oversight challenge to these businesses. You will have a challenging role in assessing the quality and effectiveness of risk management in the business and identifying opportunities for improvement.

Core Responsibilities:

• Perform risk oversight on Interest Rate products.
• Provide independent review and challenge of business activities.
• Review new products/activities ensuring market risk requirements are met.
• Assess Market Risk Limit requests, supporting or not in line with NAB risk appetite.
• Support Market Risk policies in London Branch.
• Undertake Market Risk reporting in London Branch.
• Processing of Key Risk Indicators triggered.
• Annual Desk Reviews.

Success:

• Work with business areas to ensure that CIB’s strategy of delivering leading customer advocacy, winning in core markets, being simple, and being fast and resilient are delivered.
• Being a customer-centric colleague able to connect day to day responsibilities to the external customer.
• Articulate and control risk appetite, provide value-adding insight and oversight and challenge business activities, saying no when such a decision is warranted.
• Maintaining the independence of the Market Risk function and ensuring the "Risk Management Accountability Model" discipline is adhered to.
• Keeping abreast of regulatory, market and business specific developments and maintaining a contemporary understanding of best practice in risk management.
• The timely processing of Key Risk Indicators triggered, including analysis of exposures and escalation where required, explaining positions and movements in market risk and liquidity risk metrics.
• Monitor trading activity throughout the day reviewing their impact on positions against limits and to look for any unusual activity.
• Analyse data, solve problems, resolve queries, provide regular and ad-hoc reporting requests, resolve data integrity issues, process breaches, calibrate limits and produce Rates and Repo reporting and insight if necessary.
• Create or amend limit structures, discuss business requirements in relation to market risk, analyse current limit structure and methodology and implement any changes.
• Seek out relationships with Market Risk colleagues globally and contribute to alignment of processes/resourcing in all regions.
• Maintain close and effective working relationships with business units and risk teams.

Critical Experiences:

• Successfully delivering market risk regulatory change.
• Dealing with ambiguity in a rapidly changing environment.
• Effective management and influencing of stakeholders.
• Providing independent review and challenge of trading activities.

Core Skills & Capabilities required:

Behavioral Competencies:

• You will have a track record of demonstrating behaviours in line with NAB’s Who We Are behaviours: We are Customer Obsessed; We Keep it Simple; We Move with Speed; We Own It; We Win Together.
• You are an effective communicator, both orally and in writing.
• You can work autonomously and confidently, with a focus on achieving deadlines and producing high-quality workpapers and reports.
• You are flexible and adaptable to continuous change and are a strong team player.
• You are a pro-active, customer focussed colleague able to positively influence and lead colleagues from within a team.

Technical Skills:

• Significant experience of market risk management in a financial services environment (minimum 5 years).
• High-level of understanding of key global market risk regulations applied to the financial services industry.
• Good knowledge and understanding of market risk practices and of general risk management principles.
• Working knowledge of key wholesale markets products, particularly interest rate derivatives, interest rate options, repos.
• Demonstrated capability for identification, assessment, and evaluation of risk.
• Strong Excel skills, including working knowledge of VBA.
• Coding skills and/or electronic and Algorithmic trading knowledge would be beneficial.

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Associate Director, Market Risk Oversight

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