Prime Services Risk Advisor - Vice President
Company: SGS Soci--t-- G--n--rale de Surveillance SA
Location: New York
Posted on: November 13, 2024
Job Description:
Responsibilities
- Covers primarily Hedge Funds, Asset Managers, Proprietary
Trading Groups, Family Offices, Pension Funds and Private Equity
Funds.
- Supports Sales on client pitching by providing risk information
with the necessary explanation on the risk measures applied to the
client's portfolio.
- Assists in due diligence meetings for prospective and existing
clients. Assists the Second Line Risk/Credit if requested.
- Performs and provides analyses on
- client strategies and trading patterns
- risks in client portfolios: market risk, liquidity and
concentration risks, wrong way risk, etc.
- margin coverage relevance
- risk measurement adequacy
- balance sheet and capital usages if required.
- Identifies emerging risks (market events, client-related early
warnings) and escalates to the First Line/Business senior
management and the Second Line Risk/Credit.
- Participates in implementing client-specific monitoring, as
required.
- Ensure clients exposures are in line with overarching
frameworks.
- Ensure Front Office is trained on the Counterparty Credit Risk
"CCR" Framework. Risk Limits
- Proposes new limits and/or renewals of expiring limits.
- Participates in Account Closure and Renewal Processes (Trading
Limits and Market Access connections).
- Reviews and provides recommendations for Complex Transactions.
Monitoring / Reporting & Overshoot Management
- Ensures first level monitoring of daily limits.
- Comments limit overshoots and prepares remediation plans in
concert with the Front Office.
- Escalates potential client issues to the First Line/Business
senior management and the Second Line Risk/Credit.
- Performs Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly and Regulatory
reporting with relevant drilldowns, as needed.
- Participates in providing material to the relevant
committees.
- Monitors margin disputes and aged/failed payments.
- Monitors Uncleared Margin Rule "UMR" exposures for bilateral
clients if applicable. Client Margining
- Defines and updates margining rules with client, under the
constraints of the risk limits.
- Ensures margin levels remain adequate for the risks of the
client's portfolio.
- Ensures that margination is set up appropriately in various
back office and margination systems.
- Computes or validates ad-hoc margin amounts.
- Liaises with Operations to monitor delayed payment of margin
calls and escalates if appropriate.
- Responds to margining inquiries from Operations, the Second
Line Risk/Credit and clients.
- Provides adequate Independent Amount "IA" quotes for Complex
Transactions.
- Participates in updating the IA policy and IA grids.
- Assists Sales in computing risks for a client's portfolio.
Client Onboarding
- Provides risk opinion on new clients.
- May be requested to provide portfolio simulations for new
clients, including Risk-Weighted Assets "RWA" impacts.
- Participates in the Legal Documentation negotiation for credit
related terms. Special projects
- Participates in projects to enhance the productivity of the
team.
- Participates in projects to enhance the risk framework.
- Automates various reporting as requested by management and
senior members of the team.
- Suggests enhancements to the processes. Profile
requiredRequired:
- Analytical capability and Problem solving: Able to break down
complex problems into simple manageable units, develops solutions
for each unit, and integrates them back into the whole. Can absorb
ideas quickly and apply them pragmatically.
- Results oriented: participates in setting goals and meets
deadlines to bring value to the team and to the First Line/Business
while maintaining high quality work product and safeguarding the
bank.
- Interpersonal effectiveness: is self-aware of own behavior and
work style, as well as tolerant of different needs and viewpoints.
Demonstrates interest, consideration and respect in others
opinions.
- Communication Skills: excellent verbal, writing and
presentation skills with the ability to interact with stakeholders
and ability to relay complex technical concepts to both technical
and non-technical audiences. Ability to present and escalate issues
to Senior Management.
- Client focused with strong advisory skills.
- Organized, detail oriented and eager to learn. Technical Skills
& Knowledge:Required:
- Solid knowledge of financial markets and financial
products.
- Good knowledge of derivatives.
- Good knowledge of financial risk, margining and portfolio
analysis techniques: VaR models, Stress Testing, Greeks.
- Good knowledge of hedge funds and investment strategies.
Desired:
- Familiar with databases and business intelligence (e.g.,
Tableau, Power BI, etc.)
- Programming in Python and SQL.
- Good knowledge of Excel. Qualifications (Experience &
Education):Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering or
Mathematics.
- 4-6 years in risk management, preferably in market risk, model
risk or hedge fund risk.
- Must be a self-starter and be able to operate independently in
a fast-paced environment.
- Proven change management abilities. Desired:
- Master's degree
- Good knowledge of Prime Brokerage
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