Senior Risk Manager – Brokerage

Overview

Our client, a leading local Investment bank based in Saudi Arabia, is seeking a Senior Risk Manager to join their team.

Title : Senior Risk Manager - Brokerage

Client : Leading Bank in Saudi Arabia

Location : Saudi Arabia

Salary : Competitive

Reporting to : Head of Risk Management

Responsibilities

• On Governance issues, draft risk management policies and procedures; propose methodologies for the measurement of risk exposures and RAROC across risk classes; identify and check compliance with regulatory requirements on Risk Management; manage limit approvals and reviews.
• On Risk Systems issues, specify and / or review functional requirements and implementation plans with regard to brokerage and margin lending; define annual testing of functionalities and models wherever applicable; organize and maintain risk parameters and static data information within risk systems (Fidessa, Thomson Reuters).
• On Market Risk issues, measure and report market risk exposures on a Value-at-Risk and Scenario Analysis basis; execute an annual backtesting and risk modeling validation exercise; review market-liquidity and funding-liquidity risk exposures; provide support on valuation issues involving financial instruments.
• On Credit Risk issues, measure and report credit risk exposures on settlement risk, pre-settlement risk and margin lending risk; execute an annual securities classification review for margin lending; assess credit risks related to the underwriting of equities and bonds as well as secured lending to clients.
• On Operational Risk issues, develop and report a Non-financial Risk Dashboard, highlighting major operational risk exposures and actions taken; facilitate Risk Assessment Workshops or expert risk assessments; work in cooperation with Internal Audit and Compliance.

Core Competencies

About The Company

Huxley Associates is an international recruitment consultancy that provides specialised contingency and retained recruitment solutions in the following sectors across the region.

Huxley Associates have enjoyed continuous growth over the past 16 years and have established a network of 16 offices around the world including Dubai, New York, London, Sydney, Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Paris and Singapore. We are widely regarded as one the worlds leading executive recruitment consultancies offering unparalleled training, career progression and support to our consultants. This enables best in class service delivery across the marketplaces we focus upon.

Huxley is committed to developing long term business relationships in the MENA region and take pride in the provision of quality recruitment support to our clients. Firms driven by a need to attract the best candidates from the local and international community use us repeatedly to gain competitive advantage in the acquisition of hard to find skillsets across the MENA region.

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