Title: Senior Consultant - Financial Risk Management
Business Unit: Financial Risk Management
Reporting to: Associate Director

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 job duties or 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

Critical Technical Skills or competencies

• 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
• One to three 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

Critical Interpersonal or Interactive skills

• Initiative and enthusiasm
• Responsibility and maturity
• People skills
• Professionalism
• Ability to deliver and follow-through on project responsibilities
• Confidence to be client-facing
• Above average linguistic aptitude and excellent writing skills
• Good communication/ presentation skills
• Previous project management experience would be a plus
• Ability to work under pressure
• Flexibility to accept change in terms of the consulting/ advisory environment

Qualifications and experience
Relevant Masters (MCom / MSc) degree or Honours degree ideally supplemented by professional qualification (FRM/PRM/CFA)