Senior Consultant - Risk Technology at KPMG South Africa

Job title/position:

Risk technology Senior Consultant
Function and Business Unit: FRM, Market Risk

Description of the role and purpose of the job:

• As part of the Treasury and Risk Transformation group of a big 4 consulting firm, you will be part of a team that brings together financial and technical skills that our clients can leverage throughout the lifespan of their change journey in order to ensure that people (organisation), process and technology elements of change are managed in harmony.
• The key purpose of the position involves helping our clients in the design and implementation of treasury, trading and risk systems, operating models, organisational structure, risk measurement and performance techniques.

Key responsibilities:

• Ability to work within a project team and take responsibility for the delivery of quality project deliverables.
• Manage tracks of work in accordance with projected timelines, budgets and quality standards
• Gather and translate business requirements for treasury, trading and risk system solution design
• Liaise with the different business and technical stakeholders to ensure successful risk and treasury solution configuration
• Ability to define target business processes and ideally design target operating models
• Actively support business development activities and thought leadership projects
   

Skills and attributes required for the role:

• Candidate must have a good understanding of quantitative methods and their application in the Financial Risk Management space
• Experience of trading and risk system (Murex, Calypso, Front Arena, Riskwatch, Adaptiv, Mysis Summit, Quantum, ...) in a business or technological role
• Between 1 to 4 years treasury, trading or risk management experience within a financial services environment
• Basic understanding of Basel II & III and topical risk management issues
• Basic understanding of financial markets, financial instruments and current issues

Minimum requirements to apply for the role (including qualifications and experience):

• 3 years’ experience
• BSc Degree in Finance, Mathematics, IT