Job Title: Liquidity Risk Manager
Job Type: Contract (12 months)
Location: London
Hourly: £70 - £80 per hour PAYE

Opportunity Overview: A fantastic opportunity has arisen to temporarily join my client as a Liquidity Risk Manager.

My client is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services. The Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including corporations, governments, and individuals from more than 1,200 offices in 43 countries.

Role Objective: Firm Risk Management (FRM) supports my client to achieve its business goals by partnering with business units across the Firm to realize efficient risk-adjusted returns, acting as a strategic advisor to the Board and protecting the Firm from exposure to losses as a result of credit, market, liquidity, operational, model and other risks. Background on the Position The role will reside within Firm Risk Management's Liquidity Risk Department (LRD). LRD is responsible for the oversight of the Firm's ability to survive adverse, idiosyncratic and market-related liquidity shocks. LRD's mandate includes liquidity risk assessment and identification, limit setting and enforcement, business strategy challenge, liquidity reserve model methodology oversight, and communication of liquidity risks to senior management and the Board.

Primary Responsibilities:
* Contribute to the identification and assessment of key risks and active monitoring of Liquidity Risks
* Maintaining active dialogue with business units, Corporate Treasury, risk management colleagues, and other groups regarding
business strategies, risk representation, limit compliance and liquidity stress testing
* Preparing and presenting briefings to senior management on key risk issues
* Execute risk review projects to improve identification, monitoring and management of Liquidity risk
* Communicate results of analyses with relevant stakeholders
* Review and challenge of existing stress models

Skills and Qualities
* Highly organised and attention to detail.
* Ability to work under pressure and handle a fast-paced environment.
* Strong time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and priorities.
* Strong communication and inter-personal skills, with the ability to distill and communicate information and ideas in a clear and
succinct manner.
* Ability to work independently, form opinions and make decisions, while being a team player and collaborate well with others.
* Possess sound business judgement and ability to assess legal risk, while providing practical advice.
* Ability to interact and effectively advise senior members of the Firm and BUs.
* Ability to anticipate ahead of time and escalate issues as appropriate.

Experience:
* Excellent academic background, preferably with a degree in business, finance, or a quantitative discipline
* 6-10 years relevant working experience, preferably at a large financial institution
* Strong understanding of risk and liquidity in relation to financial products including foreign exchange products and structured notes
* Strong knowledge of FX products in unsecured debt products.
* Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, with the ability to provide information in usable formats (synthesize complex
data sets and problems and conceptualize appropriate solutions)
* Experience using SQL to create queries for extracting and analyzing data
* Ability to work independently in a self-directed way in a collaborative, team-oriented environment
* Ability to effectively communicate with a wide range of stakeholders, both written and verbally (proficiency in Microsoft Excel
and PowerPoint)
* An interest in working in a fast-paced environment, often balancing multiple high priority deliverables FRM is committed to creating and providing opportunities that enable our workforce to reflect diverse backgrounds and views

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We are committed to offering an inclusive recruitment experience. If you require accommodations because of disability or health condition, please email: gscemeaedi @ robertwalters.com. This position is being sourced through our Outsourcing service line.