Head of Market and Liquidity Risk Control Unit

Functional responsibilities:

• participation in the construction and development of a system for controlling market, interest rate (banking book) and liquidity risks of the Bank;
• providing proposals for improvement and developing methodologies and tools for identifying, measuring, monitoring and controlling the Bank's market, interest rate and liquidity risks;
• participation in the development and formation of reporting on market, interest rate and liquidity risks in accordance with the needs for making management decisions by the Bank's management;
• maintaining relevant databases necessary for risk assessment within the competence of the Department;
• monitoring the convergence of risk appetite indicators, as well as compliance with the limits of market, interest rate and liquidity risks established by the ALCO, and their use in financial markets, including limits on treasury operations, primarily foreign exchange and interbank operations;
• ensuring monitoring and prevention of violations of risk appetite indicators and market risk limits; liquidity risks and interest rate risk of the banking book, as well as the use of transaction limits in financial markets;
• making proposals for establishing and controlling limits on market, interest rate and liquidity risks of the Bank;
• participation in the development of proposals to improve the methodology for conducting stress testing of market, interest rate and liquidity risks, defining/agreeing scenarios and actually conducting stress testing;
• participation in the control of stress scenarios and verification of the stress testing methodology for market, interest rate and liquidity risks of the Bank;
• further monitoring of NBU standards and limits and participation in the development of relevant recommendations;
• conducting validation of models used in the process of identifying, measuring, monitoring and controlling risks;
• calculation of expected credit losses on securities transactions, namely knowledge and understanding of the reflection of the book value of securities, the ability to predict the book value of a security based on available information about the coupon rate, the effective rate at which the security was purchased and the existing amortization schedule of the security's discount/premium, knowledge of NBU Resolution No. 351 regarding the amount of credit risk on securities;
• knowledge of determining the Fair value of securities based on the available Yield to maturity values and vice versa
• participation in the development and further control of the implementation of business requirements for the automation of the functions of the market, interest rate and liquidity risk control department.

Job responsibilities

• comply with the requirements of the current legislation of Ukraine and the Bank's internal regulatory documents
• participate in risk management that may lead to losses/sanctions, additional losses or failure to receive planned income, loss of the Bank's reputation
• provide comprehensive information on processes and operations performed in accordance with functional responsibilities at the request of the management of the unit, the Bank and/or other units involved in the RMS
• take all possible actions, including providing appropriate suggestions to management to minimize or avoid the expected and unexpected impact of the realization of risks
• improve their professional level by participating in training events
• to promptly comply with the requirements of orders, instructions and regulations.

Candidate requirements:

• Higher education;
• At least 3 years of experience in identifying, measuring, monitoring, controlling, reporting and mitigating market, interest rate and liquidity risks
• Professional skills: assessment and analysis of banking risks, understanding mathematical models, application of statistical and econometric methods, conducting factor analysis;
• Personal skills: focus, accuracy, precision, analytical mindset;
• PC software skills, namely: MS Office applications and basic knowledge of SQL

We offer:

• Official employment and stable work in one of the leading banks in Ukraine.
• Competitive market salary and annual bonus.
• Social package in accordance with the Labor Code (additional 2 days of annual leave).
• Opportunity for professional and career growth, corporate training.
• Medical insurance at the bank's expense and preferential conditions for family members.
• Flexible work schedule with the possibility of partial remote employment.
• Friendly atmosphere in a team of professionals.
• Children's room for employees' children with a caregiver.

In our bank you will also find opportunities for active recreation and team interaction:

• Dance training, yoga classes (offline and online).
• Corporate football team.