What does this job entail?
At KBC, the Risk Markets department oversees the financial risks of our KBC Group dealing room. As a market risk manager within the business development team, you become part of the team that forms the bridge between the reporting team and the ICT team:
- The reporting team 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 understood by business and senior management.
- The ICT team ensures the operational stability and efficiency of our data intake, calculation processes and reporting services. They monitor the lifecycle of our applications and ensure a timely and correct release activation.
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 reporting team by translating business requirements into technical impacts;
- adapt and anticipate to changes in market data;
- Implement changes on our calculation and ETL processes
- continuously improve our systems and processes with the help of business and ICT 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 are process minded and enjoy switching the gear from solo deep-dive investigations to cooperative solution design. At the same time, you are comfortable working in a flexible, agile approach. You get energy from frequent interactions with colleagues from your own team and across other teams, and want to inform them about knowledge acquired.
- 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?
The financial markets are constantly changing, and so are our ICT systems. As a risk developper within risk markets, I play a crucial role in supporting this dynamic environment. My work is multifaceted and includes areas such as data analysis, implementing new developments, regulatory compliance and reporting. This role provides the flexibility to shape my career and excel in different aspects of banking, allowing me to continuously grow and contribute to the stability and efficiency of our risk systems.
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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!
