What does this job entail?
At KBC, the Market Risk team oversees the financial risks of our KBC Group dealing room. As a market risk manager, you become part of the risk team that supports, challenges, and advises our dealing rooms during their activities, safeguards that our control environment is up to standards, and ensures that risks are known and inderstood by business and senior management.
Are you wondering how to act as liaison between those two different worlds? Just ask. We will happily explain how we:
- act as a partner for our dealing rooms, trades and sales dealers, using our expertise on trading market risk to our their benefit;
- adapt,anticipate and stay up to date with anychanges in our field of work;
- offer different stakeholders insights into risks via monitoring, analyses, advice, reporting and follow-ups;
- continuously improve our systems and processes with the help of technical experts and colleagues who think along with us on a conceptual level;
- work together, moving forward as a single team while giving our staff members the room to organise their work independently.
What do we expect from you?
- You immerse yourself in risk management, and more particularly, in trading market risk and counterparty risk.
- You contribute to our core activities: business analysis, process engineering, change management …,
- You investigate and implement cases across different applications, each with their own coding language (SQL, VB script, Python, Qlik, …).
- You keep in touch with our various stakeholders and align on planned changes
- You help transform the risk function, make us more digital & data driven and better connected.
Your key strengths?
- You have a master's degree in data, economics or science (STEM). You have a clear affinity for risk management, the world of financial and market risks and want to deepen your knowledge of this.
- Ideally, you have had your first experience in a similar position. Don't have this yet? Then perhaps you can convince us with your drive and your quantitative skills for this position.
- You communicate clearly and convincingly in English
- You’ll notice there’s not a long list of requirements here. To match with this function you like an analytical challenge and like to dive deep into a subject. You like making use of tooling to process data like for example Python, Matlab, SAS, SQL, QlikSense. At the same time, you enjoy thinking conceptually, and are comfortable taking a more pragmatic approach were appropriate. You get energy from frequent interactions with colleagues and management, and want to inform them about your findings in a clear and convincing way.
- Particularly important to us is a positive mindset:
- You enjoy working as a team
- You want to learn and grow.
- You like taking initiative.
- We have certain other expectations but would be most happy to get to know you if you feel this job is right for you. People with varied backgrounds enrich a team.
What can we offer you?
- Your skillset will be deepened in topics such as Financial Valuation, Financial Regulation, Trading Models and Applied Trading Risk Measurement. You will gain a holistic and practical foundation on Market Risk
- We offer you an exceptional range of training and development opportunities so that you can develop your full potential. You are encouraged to keep growing as a person and professionally.
- You will receive a permanent contract with a competitive salary, including an extensive package of additional benefits.
- Our offices are easily accessible by public transport. You can also work partly from home if you like, even when the covid-related regulations are no longer in place.
- We value a good balance between your work and private life.
Can you help us make the difference?
At Risk Markets, you can develop your skills on a technical, substantive or managerial level. Take the unpredictability of the financial markets and you get a varied job that never gets boring.
Kristof
Respect and inclusion are core values at KBC. We believe that the individuality of our employees and the diversity of our teams are key to achieving great things. That’s why we recruit new employees based on talent and motivation, regardless of their background or story.
We work closely together to be the reference in the financial sector by innovating, greening and connecting. Interested in joining a ‘Top Employer’ and contributing to new ideas and solutions that help our customers and society move forward?
If this ticks all your boxes, apply now so we can get to know you. And if there are any specific things you’d like us to consider in your application, please let us know. We look forward to hearing from you soon!
