Responsibilities:

- Cognizant of the business and economic trends that drives the risk factors relevant to UOB China.
- Assess market risk of new product/services and ensuring that its impact on the Banks’ overall risk profile are adequately identified
- Work with businesses to ensure that limit structure is appropriate and in line with business plan and risk appetite
- Maintain MRM policy, guidelines and ensuring that overall market risk framework is in line with market practice and meet regulatory requirements.
- Work with other departments (e.g. Middle Office, Operations, Finance, MRM Singapore) to ensure that market risk exposures and risk performance indicators are properly and promptly monitored.
- Analyze portfolio risk profile and manage any exceptions within your delegated authority. To ensure any anomalies are escalated to the appropriate level(s) of authority for notation and management.
- Continually assess and ensure that risk methodology, risk system and infrastructure are adequate to support the business and are in tandem with required risk practices (e.g. Basle)

Requirements:

- Strong mathematical background and ability to understand treasury products, risk and valuation methodologies
- A degree holder preferably with more than 5 years’ of relevant experience in market risk management, risk control, middle office and/or trading experience
- Holder of CFA and/or a degree in Financial Engineering, Applied Finance would have an advantage
- Knowledge of structured products would be an advantage;
- Good IT/PC skills, proficient in Excel and preferably in Databases as well;
- Ability to work well across teams/functions.