Valuation Market Risk Senior Analyst

Employment contract:

Permanent

Location:

Porto, Porto District, Portugal

Job/mission:

RISK

Reference:

12351365

Purpose
and Scope of the role

The position is
a Quantitative Methodology Senior Analyst role in the Valuation Adjustments
team within RISK Market & Financial Institutions (“RISK MFI”).

RISK MFI provides the
Senior Management of the Group, of the RISK Function and of Corporate &
Institutional Banking (“CIB”) with full transparency and dynamic analysis and
monitoring of market, counterparty, liquidity risks originated and managed by
CIB GM and of credit risks on Financial Institutions in order to assist them in
their risk decision making and monitoring.

The Valuation
Adjustments stream is responsible for the valuation adjustments methodologies
on Fair and Prudent value (reserves, methodology corrections and independent
price verification) from their design, maintenance, implementation, regular
calibration, analysis, monitoring and reporting.

The Valuation
Adjustment team works within an Agile framework.

Responsibilities
of the Quantitative Methodology Senior Analyst role

  • Lead or contribute to the
    maintenance and design of existing or new methodologies based on (1) knowledge
    and expertise on the underlying products; and (2) proper quantitative analysis
    using historical data and simulation.
  • Assess the impact of internally
    or externally driven updates to the methodology set and communicate with the
    relevant stakeholders (trading, quantitative research, risk managers, risk
    methodology approvers, audit… ) before release.
  • Perform the calibration of
    Valuation Adjustments methodologies at the defined frequency leveraging large
    data sets of market information.
  • Continuously develop and
    improve a critical opinion about the data set used in the methodologies under
    responsibilities, exploring and integrating new sources and regularly assessing
    the quality of the existing set.
  • Manage and overview the
    computation, validation and reporting of monthly & quarterly VAs.
  • Analyse the monthly variations
    of VAs stocks from complex methodologies used for exotics products and
    communicate them to relevant stakeholders (Trading, Market Risk, Quantitative
    Research, Finance) across the relevant business lines (Credit, Rates & FX,
    Equities, Commodities).
  • Represent the team in the
    committees related to Valuation Adjustments
  • Lead small projects to improve
    the efficiency and reliability of the team processes, by developing automated
    solutions leveraging high industrialization standards, or integrating the
    methodologies under responsibility into IT platform in close collaboration with
    IT development and Digital teams.

Role
Competencies

  • Ability to gather, prioritise
    and integrate large amounts of information, to process and simplify it.
  • Ability to systematically
    produce relevant documents with accurate, precise, and verified information.
  • Ability to act in advance of a
    future situation, to take control and initiatives to implement relevant actions
    in the short and long term.
  • Able to identify solutions to
    overcome obstacles and drive results to conclusion working autonomously and
    implementing work processes, ideas, and solutions with tenacity.
  • Effectively deliver and adapt
    complex messages according to the targeted audience.
  • Value and integrate client’s
    feedback to improve products, services and processes.

Skills,
experience, and qualifications

  • Master’s degree in finance,
    Applied Mathematics, Science or Engineering. Advanced degree or professional
    certifications like FRM or CFA are a plus.
  • 5 years of working experience
    in a relevant financial market and/or valuation methodology field. A previous
    experience in Market Risk Management is an advantage.
  • On programming skills, a
    working knowledge of Python would be an advantage.
  • An understanding of Financial
    & Risk management concepts as well as derivatives products is recommended.

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