Senior Specialist: Market Risk at Liberty Group South Africa

Purpose

• To provide specialist advice and support in area of specialisation enabling the effective implementation of market risk and compliance frameworks.

Minimum Experience

• 3 - 5 years experience in a similar environment, of which 1 -2 years at a junior specialist level

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas [NQF Level 07] in Finance Economics and Accounting

Additional Minimum Qualifications

Outputs

Process

• Apply relevant research methodologies, tools and techniques to effectively and purposefully gather information.
• Understand and apply existing best practice frameworks to assist in the implementation of identified subject matter processes and standards.
• Provide specialist advice and support in area of accountability to ensure that identified solutions and recommendations are appropriate and effective.
• Coordinate research and information gathering activities and collate and analyse information to serve as input to managerial reporting or decision making.
• Conduct investigations in order to establish and verify facts to that leads to the identification and reduction of business risks.
• Facilitate the effective implementation and roll-out of changes and/or improvementsof risk reports.
• Support monitoring of the future regulatory and legislative environment whilst providing advice on existing regulatory issues.
• Define requirements for the measurement and reporting of market and liquidity risk.
• Report and advise on risk metrics.
• Report and advise on market and liquidity risk exposures.
• Ensure accuracy data loaded into the trading system (will require using Reuters and Bloomberg).
• Accountable for the improvement of quality, service and work outputs, continuously recommending improvements.
• Plan for the organisation of work outputs and process improvement activities in light of a specific situational context related to the area of specialisation.
• Proactively identify area of specialisation related problems, determine cause and effect and recommend the best option to implement corrective action based on previous experience.

Customer

• Provide specialist expertise and advice to internal/external customers, that builds strong relationships and creates a favourable impression aligned to Treating the Customer Fairly (TCF) principles.

Finance

• Adhere to financial controls, governance and compliance policies and processes throughout an area of specialisation, contributing to cost efficiency.

Learning and Growth

• Interact proactively with others for the purpose of continuous knowledge sharing; and integration of own new knowledge.
• Contribute positively to human capability improvement, related to knowledge optimisation and associated with area of specialisation.

Governance

• Comply to risk and governance policies, implement and provide subject matter input to the development of related processes, applicable to the area of specialisation.

Competencies

Liberty Values

Technical Competencies

• Product Related System Application (Intermediate)
• Research and Information Gathering (Intermediate)
• Risk Knowledge (Proficient)

Behavioural Competencies

• Professional/Technical learning (Intermediate)
• Analytical Thinking (Proficient)
• Organisation and Attention to Detail (Intermediate)
• Problem Solving and Analysis (Intermediate)
• Governance, Ethics and Values (Intermediate)
• Relationship Management and Networking (Intermediate)