The Market Risk Lead Analyst role involves ensuring compliance with risk appetite, developing risk metrics, and evaluating the regulatory environment while managing market risk activities across the bank.
Join us as a Market Risk Lead Analyst
- You’ll be influential in maintaining and developing a strong second line of defence across our Risk function
- We’ll look to you to manage the engagement with Risk functions to understand their respective requirements and strategic developments and deliver on the business’s responsibilities
- This is an exciting fast-paced role, where you’ll be able to hone your experience of market risk and advance your career
What you'll do
In your new role, you’ll make sure that Market Risk activities comply with the bank’s risk appetite and the risk management standards requested by our stakeholders.
We’ll look to you to develop and deliver a suite of risk metrics, making sure that these can effectively capture the risk which is managed.
You’ll also be:
- Keeping up to date with the regulatory environment in which the bank operates and helping to assess and implement any changes in the risk management framework
- Facilitating the articulation of risk appetite and limit frameworks in liaison with first line functions and governing bodies, at legal entity and divisional level for market risk
- Focusing on the relevant pricing desks
- Providing stress testing of relevant portfolios and bespoke stress tests based on market conditions
- Reviewing and challenging current risk methodologies and portfolio make up
The skills you'll need
We’re looking for someone with experience within a market risk function, ideally with exposure to and an understanding of capital, market or credit risk practices.
You’ll also need:
- A good understanding of financial products within Fixed Income and FX
- Knowledge of risk metrics and value at risk (VaR)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- To demonstrate strong skills in Excel, with proficiency in Python and VBA
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
28/05/2026Ways of Working:HybridNatWest Group London, England Office
250 Bishopsgate, London, United Kingdom, EC2M 4AA
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