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Fixed Income Market Risk
PERMANENT - London
This is a rare & exciting opportunity for a Fixed Income Market Risk Professional to join the Compliance & Risk team at this Equity and Fixed Income Securities Company based in London.
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Commodity Model Validation
PERMANENT - London
An exceptional Risk Analyst is required by this top Commodities Trading house based in London to manage the validation process for new business valuation models and provide IT testing support to the M more >>
Model Valuation Controller
PERMANENT - London
Our client, a leading Investment Bank are currently seeking a Model Controller to join their Valuations team, which is part of the Finance. They are responsible for all valuation control issues.
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Risk and Control Manager
PERMANENT - London
An exciting opportunity for an experienced Risk and Control Manager has arisen within this leading financial institution to provide support across all operational business streams. The four core func more >>
Internal Auditor
PERMANENT - London
My client, a top 15 professional practice, is in the enviable position of going through a period of significant growth at a difficult time in the market. This highly progressive firm is looking to rec more >>
Market Risk Analyst
TEMPORARY - London - City
Market Risk Analyst
Organisation: Leading German Bank
Markets: Credit markets businesses (including Corporate Bond trading, Emerging Credit Markets and Credit Derivatives)
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Senior Internal Auditor
PERMANENT - London - bonus package
My client an industry leading multi national manufacturer heavily involved in the oil and gas industry is looking to recruit a qualified fluent French speaking External Auditor for an Internal Audit r more >>
Market Risk Business Analyst - London
TEMPORARY - London
An exciting new role has arisen for an experienced Market Risk Business Analyst to define the changes necessary to renovate and extend the Market Risk infrastructure. The individual will gather requir more >>
Business Analyst – Liquidity Risk Management - London
TEMPORARY - London
This exciting new role has arisen for a Business Analyst to join a well know investment bank to represent the Corporate Banking Division at a detailed level to deliver compliant solutions to Liquidity more >>
Product Controller
PERMANENT - London
Our client is the leading broker of exchange-listed futures and options in the world. They currently seek a Product Controller to join the Europe Finance and Accounting Division
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Scenario Risk Analyst - Fixed Income - London
TEMPORARY - London
This top-tier European investment bank with over 150 years of history yet still a reputation for innovation is looking to expand their market risk department and recruit a market risk professional to more >>
Senior Analyst
PERMANENT - London
Our client is a dynamic and energetic FTSE 250 retail company with an impressive growth pattern over the last 15 years. This is a great opportunity to join the internal audit function, reporting to a more >>
Physical Oil Specialist for Front Office Oil Risk Manager
PERMANENT - London - City - per annum
A leading energy house are looking to hire a oil expert into their elite risk team that sits on the trading floor. Because the... more >>
Quantitative Risk Control, FX, Equity, Commodity
PERMANENT - London - City - per annum
Top US investment bank is seeking an experienced Derivatives Valuation Quant for its team in London.
The bank is doing exceptionally well and has posted exceptional... more >>
Credit Risk on Basel 2
PERMANENT - London - City - per annum
A leading European investment bank with a large retail arm is looking for a senior credit risk manager to join their team in London. This... more >>
Global Markets Trading Analyst
PERMANENT - London - City - per annum
A world leading, investment bank is looking to hire a senior bilingual English, Korean speaker to join their on going global markets project. The... more >>
Front Office Market Risk Emerging Markets, London
PERMANENT - London
My Client is looking to take on exceptionally bright, quantitative junior banking professionals or graduates to join their Front Office Market Risk team. This position requires someone with an ability more >>
Internal Auditor - Banking
PERMANENT - London - City - £50,000 - £Attractive Bens
City based International Banking Group wish to recruit an additional member of staff for their Audit team. The successful candidate will be based in London and will perform audits in departments at the Head Office but there is also an emphasis of the role on branch audits, therefore travelling will be necessary. The role will include the risk assessment, testing and evaluation of procedures and business flows and also the auditing of accounts. You will fulfil an important function in assuring that the business complies with internal and external rules and has a high level of internal control. You will also participate in any investigations initiated by the Audit Department or the Senior Management of the Bank. The successful candidate will have proven experience of working within an audit department. Strong analytical skills, the ability to assess risk, a high level of integrity and an interest in problem solving are essential as well as the ability to work independently. General knowledge about banking operations and products is desirable, and any qualifications such as ACCA or CIA or similar will be looked positively upon. more >>
Associate, Quantitative Risk Modelling
PERMANENT - London - City - per annum
Top tier US investment bank is seeking an exceptional PhD educated quant to join its Quantitative Risk modelling team in New York.
The bank has maintained... more >>
News & Press
The Risk Management Recruitment Landscape 2008/9
During early summer 2008 GRS surveyed two hundred people responsible for hiring risk professionals globally. Our objective was to map recruitment trends in this specialist market and provide a definitive study of salary levels.
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S&P Report Examines How Parent Bank Ownership In Emerging Europe Can Mitigate Sovereign Risk
LONDON June 4, 2008--Foreign direct investment in emerging Europe's financial sectors has expanded dramatically since the mid-1990s, particularly from Western Europe. A new Standard & Poor's report published today, titled "Friends In High Places? Foreign Bank Ownership And Emerging Europe Sovereign Ratings," examines to what extent, in the event of a crisis, foreign bank ownership can mitigate the risk of financial sector contingent liabilities for emerging European sovereigns. more >>
Failing Operational Risk Systems To Fuel Major New IT Investment
London, Friday 25 April - Financial institutions are forecast to increase their IT spending by up to 25% during the next 12-18 months, according to a recent survey by Ernst & Young. more >>
Riskdata Appoints New Managing Director for EMEA
London - 15th April 2008 - Riskdata, the leading provider of risk management solutions to the worldwide alternative investment marketplace, has announced the appointment of Rachel Rubenstein as Managing Director, EMEA, leading the company's sales team across the region. She joins Riskdata from Axioma Inc, a risk management and optimisation company, where she was Sales Director. more >>
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Recruiters
Citifocus
Citifocus is a highly successful recruitment consultancy specialising in the financial services sector. We focus on temporary and permanent recruitment in the front and middle office and operational areas of fund management, investment banking, custody and clearing, corporate and commercial banking, hedge funds and stockbroking. We service vacancies at all levels ranging from junior clerical, up to and including, senior executive personnel.
Selby Jennings
Selby Jennings recruits throughout Europe, the US and Asia for Investment Banks, Hedge Funds, Fund Management, Brokerages, Corporate Finance Boutiques, Energy Trading Houses and Financial Consultancies into the following areas across all asset classes: Analysis, Development, Marketing, Origination, Quant Analysis, Quant Development, Research Analysis, Risk Analysis, Risk Control, Risk Management, Sales, Structuring, Trading.
Employers
Abbey
There’s never been a better time to get involved with the award-winning Santander (voted ‘World’s best bank’ by Euromoney magazine) and we’ve got big plans for the future as an exciting programme of growth and innovation continues. We’re changing and growing fast but we’re not content, we constantly strive to be the best.
Bank of America
Bank of America is at the forefront of many of the industry's largest and complex deals, and we have more clients than any other financial services company in the world.
Citi
Citi, the leading global financial services company, does business in more than 100 countries, providing consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services. With a presence in many countries dating back more than 100 years, Citi enables clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.
Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse is a world-leading financial services company, advising clients in all aspects of finance, around the world, around the clock.
Dresdner Kleinwort
Dresdner Kleinwort operates an integrated business model, the elements of which are; leading capital markets expertise, an international cross-border advisory platform, innovative risk management solutions across all asset classes, strength in the home markets of Germany and the UK, with an international presence and capability in key product areas to support a global client base.
Dubai International Financial Centre
The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) is an onshore hub for global finance. It bridges the time gap between the financial centres of Hong Kong and London and services a region with the largest untapped emerging market for financial services. In just three years, over 600 firms have registered at the DIFC. They operate in an open environment complemented with world-class regulations and standards.
Fitch Ratings
At Fitch Ratings we rely on the diverse skills and backgrounds of our staff to deliver solid credit opinions. Through Fitch Solutions, a division of the Fitch Group, we provide worldleading products and services to offer market participants greater insight into the growing complexity of the credit markets to enable them to make more timely and informed business decisions.
Guidepoint Global
Guidepoint Global is an independent research firm that delivers customized research tools to our clients to facilitate their analysis of products, markets, and industries. We provide our clients with access to thousands of thought leaders in various fields through our Network of Advisors, a consortium of consultants comprised of eminent thought leaders, researchers, regulatory experts, and industry professionals.
Jefferies
Jefferies, a global investment bank and institutional securities firm, has served growing and mid-sized companies and their investors for over 40 years. Headquartered in New York with more than 20 offices around the world, Jefferies provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage, securities research and asset management.
Merrill Lynch
Merrill Lynch is a leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory company, with offices on six continents. The company is a global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a broad range of asset classes and serves as a strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals worldwide.
Moody's Analytics
Moody's Analytics is a leading provider of research, data, analytic tools and related services to debt capital markets and credit risk management professionals worldwide. Moody's Analytics is a subsidiary of Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO).
Moody's Investors Service
Moody's Investors Service's ratings and analysis track debt covering more than 100 sovereign nations, 11,000 corporate issuers, 26,000 public finance issuers, and 110,000 structured finance obligations. Moody's is a subsidiary of Moody's Corporation (NYSE: MCO).
Best Selling Risk Books
The International Treasurer's Handbook 2009 by
Category: Risk Management
The International Treasurer's Handbook is an essential guide to international corporate treasury and banking. Its content is reviewed and updated each year for its extensive readership of treasury, risk and finance professionals and consultants. The 19th edition will provide you with a comprehensive source of information with detailed articles on technical guidance, key strategies and policies to support you in international projects. Benefit from the handbook's extensive reference sections, including: - Treasurer's companion: keeps you up to speed on best practice guidelines and fram.....
The Asia Treasurer's Handbook 2009 by
Category: Risk Management
The Asia Treasurer's Handbook focuses on the emerging and growing market of the Asia Pacific region. It incorporates the structure and articles of global relevance from the International Handbook. The third annual edition has once again been reviewed and updated by experienced practitioners to ensure the content is accurate and comprehensive for commercial activity within the Asia Pacific region. The Treasurers' Companion section includes articles giving an Asian perspective on: - taxation - developments in accounting - payment systems - investing surplus cash - trade finance.....
Portfolio Construction and Risk Budgeting, 3rd edition by Bernd Scherer
Category: Risk Management
This revised third edition provides you with: key concepts and methods to implement quantitatively-driven portfolio construction; knowledge of satellite investing, estimation error heuristics, scenario optimisation, mean variance investing, Bayesian methods, budgeting active risk, non-normality and multiple manager allocation; practical applications and accessible problem-solving skills; quantitative analysis that is supported by extensive examples, tables and charts to help practitioners adopt the subject matter in their day-to-day work. The new chapters bring you up-to-date informatio.....
Offshore Risk Assessment: Principles, Modelling and Applications of Qra Studies by
Category: Risk Management
"Offshore Risk Assessment" was the first book to deal with quantified risk assessment (QRA) as applied specifically to offshore installations and operations. Risk assessment techniques have been used for some years in the offshore oil and gas industry, and their use is set to expand increasingly as the industry moves into new areas and faces new challenges in older regions. This updated and expanded second edition has been informed by a major R&D programme on offshore risk assessment in Norway (2002-2006). It starts with a thorough discussion of risk analysis methodology with subsequent cha.....
Mastering Collateral Management and Documentation by
Category: Risk Management
In response to the continuing and growing use of collateral by banks and other financial institutions, this is the first comprehensive book on the subject. This practical guide provides negotiators with a clear, concise explanation of the topic, from an operational perspective and with particular focus on the five ISDA Credit Support Documents. Collateral is now big business. In January 2001 the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) calculated that between US$175-200 billion was pledged as collateral to protect credit exposure in the derivatives market. The authors esti.....
Market Risk Analysis: v. 3 by Carol Alexander
Category: Risk Management
Written by leading market risk academic, Professor Carol Alexander, "Pricing, Hedging and Trading Financial Instruments" forms part three of the "Market Risk Analysis" four volume set. This book is an in-depth, practical and accessible guide to the models that are used for pricing and the strategies that are used for hedging financial instruments, and to the markets in which they trade. It provides a comprehensive, rigorous and accessible introduction to bonds, swaps, futures and forwards and options, including variance swaps, volatility indices and their futures and options, to stochastic vol.....
Market Risk Analysis: Practical Financial Econometrics v. 2 by Carol Alexander
Category: Risk Management
Written by leading market risk academic, Professor Carol Alexander, "Practical Financial Econometrics" forms part two of the "Market Risk Analysis" four volume set. It introduces the econometric techniques that are commonly applied to finance with a critical and selective exposition, emphasising the areas of econometrics, such as GARCH, cointegration and copulas that are required for resolving problems in market risk analysis. The book covers material for a one-semester graduate course in applied financial econometrics in a very pedagogical fashion as each time a concept is introduced an empir.....
Bank Asset and Liability Management by Moorad Choudhry
Category: Risk Management
Banks are a vital part of the global economy, and the essence of banking is asset liability management (ALM). This book is a comprehensive treatment of an important financial market discipline. A reference text for all those involved in banking and the debt capital markets, it describes the techniques, products and art of ALM. Subjects covered include bank capital, money market trading, risk management, regulatory capital and yield curve analysis.Highlights of the book include detailed coverage of: liquidity, gap and funding risk management; hedging using interest rate derivatives and credit d.....
A Demon of Our Own Design by Richard M. Bookstaber
Category: Risk Management
Inside markets, innovation, and risk why do markets keep crashing and why are financial crises greater than ever before? As the risk manager to some of the leading firms on Wall Street from Morgan Stanley to Salomon and Citigroup and a member of some of the world's largest hedge funds, from Moore Capital to Ziff Brothers and FrontPoint Partners, Rick Bookstaber has seen the ghost inside the machine and vividly shows us a world that is even riskier than we think. The very things done to make markets safer, have, in fact, created a world that is far more dangerous.From the 1987 crash to Citigrou.....
Risk Management for Insurers: Risk Control, Economic Capital and Solvency II by Doff Rene
Category: Risk Management
This new user-friendly book will help the reader to quickly get to grips with risk management terms and techniques and how they relate specifically to the insurance industry. It also demonstrates how Solvency II is already shaping the regulatory agenda and its likely impact on the insurance industry. Risk Management for Insurers is an accessible reference for the whole insurance industry, identifying and discussing how to measure and manage seven major risk types such as: Market risk, including interest rate and equity risk; Credit risk; Liquidity risk; Non-life risk; Life risk; Operational r.....
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