Senior Market Risk Analyst | Risk

Natixis in Portugal is a Centre of Expertise whose mission is to transform traditional banking by developing innovative solutions for the business, operations and work culture of Groupe BPCE worldwide. 

As part of Groupe BPCE’s international division, Natixis in Portugal designs and delivers solutions for its two core areas – Corporate & Investment Banking and Asset & Wealth Management – as well as transversal services that support all entities across the Group. 

With more than 3,000 employees representing 46 nationalities, the teams work across Information Technology, Banking Support Activities, and Compliance, in an integrated, inclusive, and cross-functional way, supporting all business lines and platforms of the Group. 

A disruptive mindset and a culture of proximity and agility identify Natixis in Portugal Team and reflect the company's mission to transform traditional banking at a global scale: a perfect match in the Portuguese dynamics and entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Generic Responsibilities:

• Monitors, analyzes and certifies quantitative Risk indicators (e.g.: Specific/Global Stress-Tests, Reverse Stress-Tests, VaR, sVaR, SRAB, Volcker, etc.) following-up on daily variations as well as intraday movement, to guarantee limit consumption control, ensure daily as well as monthly reporting and consolidation as well as alert Business Lines and to Risk Mandates limit breaches and loss.
• Computes and develops the organization's different types of P&L (e.g.: economical, actual hypothetical, explain, risk theoretical and accrued) as well reporting economic P&L to the relevant departments and stakeholders within the organization and the group.
• Conducts daily analyzes and audits of the economic, actual, hypothetical and risk theoretical P&Ls certifying them in order to monitor them and understand their daily/weekly P&Ls variations.
• Computes Prudent Value Adjustment on Market Price Uncertainty, Close-Out Costs, Some Model Risk Components (such as Mean Reversion, Unearned Credit Spreads and Investing and Funding Costs) on a quarterly basis.
• Computes market risk reserves in order to report their variation and level on a monthly basis.
• Performs consistency checks between day to day processes and the controls/referential as well as maintaining the date referential mapping (e.g. Homologated books / non-homologated books) up to date.
• Consolidates the organizations' Risk Reports on a daily, weekly and monthly, basis as well as producing Regulatory Risk reports (ACPR, JST,…) on a quarterly basis.
• Prepares reports and all the necessary support document for the Market Risk Committees.
• Identifies improvement opportunites based on information analysis and reporting, in order to make recommendations and contribute for continuous improvements.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Acts as a mentor to less experienced staff, explaining relevant procedures and providing technical skills development and spread best practices.
• May support the team leader or team manager coordinating resources effectively to ensure successful project execution, alignment with organizational goals, and timely delivery of high-quality solutions.

• Higher education (Master's degree or equivalent) in finance and/or mathematics applied to finance;
• Over 5 years’ experience in finance/market risk;
• Good knowledge of financial products, financial risk indicators, and banking regulations;
• Proficiency in office tools, particularly Excel and Power BI;
• English Fluency (mandatory).
• Rigorous, with strong analytical skills and the ability to make proposals; 
• Communication skills;
• Teamwork orientation and quality in communication.

We will only consider English Cv's.

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