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Your New Mandarin Job Title: Mandarin speaking Market Risk Manager, London

The Skills You'll Need:Fluent Mandarin and English, with Market Risk experience in corporate banking in the UK

Your New Salary:£50-68k depending on experience

Location:London

Job status:Permanent

Who You'll Be Working for:

A growing international bank now emerging into the UK and European market.

To be successful in this role our client has said it is essential that candidates:

• speak and write fluent Mandarin Chinese
• have solid Market Risk experience in corporate banking
• have Market Risk experience in the UK

If that means this job isn’t a match for you please view our other vacancies for one that may be a better fit.

What You'll be Doing Each Day:

• Manage and analyse Market Risk activities and limits. Monitor market positions with respect to market conditions. Escalate positions and activity that are not in line with the bank’s risk appetite to senior management.
• Daily aggregation, validation, and monitoring of risk. Regular reporting of risk positions, limit breaches, and stress testing results for branch management and regulatory compliance.
• Identification and investigation of changes to risk profile, including analysis of VaR and stress drivers. Communication of findings to senior management.
• Working with the front office to understand and address breaches as necessary.
• Reviewing new transaction requests, identifying, and assessing the key risk issues, including capital impacts.
• Responsible for modelling and monitoring of IRRBB and transaction FX risk.
• Develop stress testing scenarios, reverse stress testing and stress testing platform.
• Develop a good understanding of risk systems and help to drive improvements where necessary.
• Develop and implement new reports to improve risk visibility.
• Lead and contribute to ad-hoc risk management initiatives and projects.

The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills in Mandarin and English.
• University graduate with working experience in Market Risk management and/or trading functions. MBA, CFA and/or industry designation is a plus.
• Strong depth of knowledge of Rates, FX and/or Credit markets and products.
• Demonstrable knowledge of derivative pricing, VaR methods, market data analysis, IRRBB and stress testing.
• Strong technical skills in VBA, SQL, Matlab, and/or C++, etc.
• Ability to understand and interpret complex business requirements.
• Ability to show resilience under pressure, including working to tight deadlines and be able to simultaneously manage competing demands.
• Self-starter with a demonstrated team player attitude and an ability and willingness to take initiative beyond the core mandate of the role.

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We would be grateful if you could send your CV as a Word document. If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 7 days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs. Please note that we can only consider candidates who are eligible to work in the UK and are able to provide relevant supporting documentation.

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