Financial Risk Specialist III

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Job Overview:

The Market & Financial Risk Reporting circle within COOR/Global Risk Services is looking

for a financial risk specialist for Violations Management, who is responsible to ensure timely processing of limit violations on financial market deals in the Global Risk Systems. These violations need to be investigated and explained by relevant front office staff and risk management.

You will need to understand and be familiar with the concept of financial markets products and limits in use within ING. Furthermore, you need knowledge and understanding of concepts such as netting, collateralization, risk measurement, and knowledge of front office and risk infrastructure and systems.

The successful candidate has strong time management skills, performs well in a fast-paced

and dynamic environment and has a proven track record in managing projects.

Key Responsibilities:

To serve our stakeholders in the best possible way building and maintaining a knowledge base – the corner stone of our self-service concept – is part of our duties. You work with colleagues from inside and outside the team to provide pro-active, end-to-end support for the users of both Front Office and Risk. You’ll be responsible for the service ownership role which will focus on the end-to-end migration of work/tasks to be transferred from Amsterdam to Manila. As a service owner for Limits & Violation Mgt. Teams, you are someone who has strong stakeholder management skills, meaning you should be able to:

1. Earn primary relationship with (senior) credit risk stakeholders;

2. Develop strategy on future reporting services;

3. Being flexible in taking care of stakeholder demand that go beyond existing (WPI) agreements, and

4. Proactive in approaching stakeholders with the goal to improve service delivery, or to implement efficiency gains.

As part of our workflow, we aim to reuse, improve, and – if it does not exist – create knowledge and make it available to the entire user community. This results in more operational efficiency, self-service and improves our products and services.

As part of the Violations Management BAU, the main responsibilities and duties are the following but are not limited to:

• Analyze deals/exposure and to identify the purpose of each banking products along with the impact to each lines
• Investigate and comment on all types of violations and set relevant status in the system within the agreed timelines
• Inspect local portfolio daily and providing weekly, monthly and quarterly report for violations committed and provide comment
• Contact trader (and manager) for unapproved violations (i.e. technical violation, true violation, violation with pre-approval, policy violation and/or material violation)
• Contact BPS if the risk management systems did not reflect approved limits correctly
• Look for trends and patterns and optimizing of service

You will need to have affinity with data and be familiar with the fundamental concept of financial risk management.

Key Capabilities/Experience:

• Education on Bachelor or Master level.
• Knowledge and working experience on (credit) risk and financial markets concepts, products, and policies is desirable.
• Knowledgeable and has working experience on (credit) risk and financial markets concepts and products, policies and systems, such as Vantage (Approval Package, ACR, Library, GRID), SaySo, Summit, Murex, ANVIL, Reuters and EBS
• At least 3-5 years of experience in a related function;
• able to quickly get up to speed with (internal) applications used
• Analytical with a high attention to detail;
• Proven affinity with financial markets and products;
• Critical mind-set with respect to what is delivered;
• Strong team player with hands on mentality;
• able to work with challenging deadlines
• Ability to cope with internal and external pressure;
• able to quickly learn new skills and concepts
• Communicative, accurate and able to work with challenging deadlines

Above all, you have a pro-active and learning attitude and strive to continuously improve the performance of the team.

Other Qualifications:

• Can provide detailed and comprehensive support/expertise to a specific area of the business by taking on responsibility for tasks of an organizational, process or operational nature.
• Can deliver within a broad and integrated environment, high-quality (custom) solutions for the processing of standard products/files.
• Can be considered as a specialist in a number of processes/products (high risk related) and work on a day-to-day basis in an environment of a medium level of complexity with minimal supervision.