EY Senior Consultant Technical Analyst Market Risk 

United Kingdom, England, London 

921396042

Manager, Technical Analyst, Market Risk

As a Manager, you will lead client engagements or workstreams and participate in internal projects. On a day-to-day basis, you’ll deliver complex risk and regulatory transformation client engagements from strategy through to implementation. Depending on the role, you will have line management responsibilities and own specific client deliverables from inception through completion in consultation with EY leadership teams.

As a Market Risk professional, you will get the opportunity to work on a variety of complex and high-profile projects with some of the largest financial institutions globally focussing on traded products and a wide stakeholder landscape across Front office, Risk, Model development and validation, Model Governance, Finance and Technology functions. E.g. incl. but not limited to the following topics: Strategic Business Growth and Regulatory remediation initiatives (PRA, ECB, OCC/Fed), Capital optimisation, Financial Resource Management, FRTB, Trading Book Winddown, Model Governance, Risk and Controls across the 3 LOD, Future of Risk, Emerging digital assets, sustainability agenda, etc.

In line with our commitment to quality, you will determine that work is of a high quality and is reviewed by the next-level reviewer. As an influential member of the team, you'll help to create a positive learning culture and will coach and counsel junior team members and help them to develop.

Your key responsibilities

As a Manager in the team, you can expect to be involved in the following activities:

• Participate in Risk and Assurance engagements with a Market and / or Counterparty credit risk focus.
• Work effectively as a team member sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication, and updating senior team members on progress
• Draft slides, reports and other deliverables to be delivered to clients and other parties
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with client personnel
• Build strong internal relationships within the advisory practice and across other services
• Conduct performance reviews and contribute to performance feedback for staff

• Contribute to people initiatives including recruiting and retaining FSRM professionals
• Maintain an educational program to continually develop personal skills

• Contribute to developing internal solutions, business development materials and the growth of the EY in the market
• Collaborate on workstreams and provide coaching to more junior colleagues
• Take part in the project planning and economics aspect of the project (budgeting, billing, etc.)

Skills and attributes for success

• Confident and credible communicator (both written and verbal) with good technical knowledge of traded products and risk management and commercial understanding
• Project management and strong report writing skills
• Experience in stakeholder and client management and well organised
• Ability to support business development and contribute to the growth of the EY market solutions and support thought leadership development and GTM Point of Views (POVs)

To qualify for the role you must have some or all of the following:

• Demonstrable, relevant experience in Financial Services, either as part of an institution within Market and Counterparty Credit Risk; in an advisory or business consulting capacity to such organisations or in the regulation of such institutions.
• Strong academic background including at least a 2.1 Bachelor's degree
• Professional Qualification e.g. CQF / CFA / FRM / PRM
• Good understanding of risk and controls, risk appetite, risk framework and policies, target operating model and governance, traded risk measurement and monitoring, internal model permissions, and regulatory interactions
• Good understanding of Traded products, Market and CVA methodologies used for the trading, risk management and ideally calculation of regulatory capital metrics (VaR, SVaR, Stress testing, Risks not in VaR etc.) for the trading book and banking book risk metrics (IRR, EVE)
• Good understanding of technology build lifecycle, which is critical for risk management projects (e.g. business and functional requirements documentation (BRD and FRD), implementation/ build, SIT testing, UAT testing) would be beneficial
• Experience in any of the following software development environments: VBA/ Java / C++/ SQL/ R / Matlab / .NET and reporting and Project management tools (Tableau, MS Project etc.) would be beneficial
• Demonstrable experience of comparing and contrasting observed Market or Counterparty Risk activities against a framework of good practice.
• Confident and credible communicator who displays both technical knowledge and commercial understanding
• Ability to document project plans, produce slides and reports
• Ownership of given tasks and ensuring timely delivery, project management and report writing experience
• Experience in stakeholder and client management
• Soft skills including teamwork, collaboration, inclusiveness, flexibility, proactiveness, and motivation
• Ability to drive business development and contribute to the growth of the EY market solutions

What we look for

We offer a competitive remuneration package where you’ll be rewarded for your individual and team performance. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions.

Plus, we offer:

• Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
• Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
• Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
• Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.