Business Analyst – Market Risk

Toronto, ON, Canada

Job Description

Story Behind the Need:

  • Business group: Global corporate Functions
  • Project: Structured Credit Project - Onboarding new products for Capital market.
  • Reason: Backfill the work of the resources currently dedicated to US structured Credit
Candidate Value Proposition:
  • The successful candidate will contribute to a high visibility transformation initiative.
Summary:
  • We are seeking a Business Analyst Specialist to join our team to lead and contribute to a range of projects including building a consolidated market risk limit monitoring system, enhancing our sensitivity generator, improving our reporting and analytics solution, and to deliver high availability applications and solutions to support Global Risk Management and regulatory needs.
  • This is a good opportunity to gain exposure to risk management.
  • The successful candidate will work closely with various stakeholders including business partners in risk management, operations and financial engineering, business analyst, architecture, and infrastructure and support to understand business requirements and drive the analysis and design of quality technical solutions.
Responsibilities:
  • Successful candidate will be responsible for the effective analysis, design, and delivery of high quality solutions that meet the business needs. Responsible for documenting requirements, analysis and design changes.
  • Work with diverse set of technologies to implement new systems, or enhancing existing implementations, and ensure sound integration with surrounding components from end to end operational perspective.
  • Proactively partner with business line representatives to drive improved technology solutions that support the business strategy.
  • Monitor the application and provide support to business queries and concerns.
  • Collaborates with multiple technology groups and vendors to ensure that the application, integrations, infrastructure and security architectures are designed to meet evolving business requirements, meet standards for reliability, scalability, performance and availability and align with the Bank's Technology roadmap
  • Coordinate and work with vendor partners, other developers, architects, business analysts, infrastructure and change management groups to deliver project goals, and identify opportunities for process and system improvements
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
  • 10+ years of relevant IT and business industry work experience.
  • At least 5+ years experience in Capital markets and financial instruments
  • 5+ years experience in Market risk management, Valuation and Risk calculations
  • Experience in project executions, agile practice for large scale software
  • Ability to create business solutions that meet the clients' needs
  • Ability to exercise good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions
  • Ability to solve technical problems/ processes and understand complex details
  • Strong technical analysis skills using SQL and Linux is a must.
Nice-To-Have Skills:
  • A CFA or FRM designation would be an asset
  • Exposure to programming languages such as python is an asset
  • Previous experience with Power BI / Tableau is nice to have
  • Recent experience with Top 5 Banks / Financial institutes is highly preferred.
Soft Skills:
  • Must possess excellent verbal and written communication skills, as well as strong problem solving and analytic skills.
  • Must be a self-starter, reliable, highly motivated, results-oriented, customer-focused and attentive to details.
  • Excellent analytical, documentation, and organizational skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver within deadlines.
  • Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Best vs. Average Candidate:
  • The ideal candidate would be a experience Business Analyst in Capital Market domain with strong experience in Market risk management, Valuation and Risk calculations.
Degrees or certifications:
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field required
  • A CFA or FRM designation would be an asset
Candidate Review & Selection:
  • 2 Rounds of interviews
  • Structure and Format: MS Teams Interview
  • 1st round: Video interview with HM and Tech lead
  • 2nd round: In-Person interview with HM and Director.
Job Details
13797
Contract
6 months
Toronto
90.00 CAD
Recruiter
Nitin Bajaj
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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD3221097
  • Industry
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  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Permanent
  • Job Location
    Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Education
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