Market Risk Manager

With around US$3 trillion in assets and operations in 62 countries, HSBC Group is one of the world’s largest banking and financial services organisations. With more than 226,000 colleagues, we support 39 million customers every day. In Europe, our ambition is to become the leading international bank, and we need talent like you to help us achieve our goals. Looking for a new professional adventure that will help you grow to your full potential? Explore our job opportunities today.

Here in Europe, you’ll help grow our business.

Are you curious, detail-oriented, and do you enjoy working in a dynamic, international environment?
Do you have an entrepreneurial mindset and excellent communication skills?
Are you interested in financial markets, ready to work in a fast-changing environment, and keen to collaborate across functions? If you answered yes to any of these questions, we want to hear from you

What you’ll do

The successful candidate will work as the second line of defence for market risk across Continental Europe.

In this role you will:

• Set risk limits aligned with the bank’s strategy and risk appetite.
• Monitor activity with Front Office teams across rates, credit, and equity markets; perform detailed risk analysis and challenge the business on positions.
• Review new products and non-standard transactions to ensure risks are appropriately controlled.
• Identify and analyse significant positions and communicate to senior management to support effective decision-making.
• Define stress test scenarios that could lead to significant losses and calculate impacts.
• Contribute to implementing changes related to regulatory capital topics.

You should apply if you have:

• Master’s degree (Bac +5) – Engineering school or equivalent university degree, with strong theoretical skills in quantitative finance.
• First significant experience in market risk management.
• Dynamic, autonomous, curious, and proactive.
• Ability to work as part of a team in a fast-changing environment, with proven ability to manage multiple deliverables at once.
• Excellent communication, presentation, negotiation, and influencing skills.

Even if you feel you do not meet 100% of our qualifications, we encourage you to apply, if you believe this role is right for you.

What you’ll get in return:

HSBC operates multiple variable pay plans, to reflect the diverse nature of the businesses, roles and markets in which we operate. Variable pay is designed to reward colleagues for their individual performance and contribution, as well as the performance of their relevant Business / Infrastructure, and the overall Group.

We offer a comprehensive and competitive package of benefits covering usually covering healthcare, life assurance, pension, andfamily friendly leaves,as well as many other benefits to support your wellbeing.

• We’ll help you progress your career, including access to development programmes, through HSBC University and our Degreed platform
• You can work your way and will have a say in when, where and how you and your team flexibly work together
• Our benefits will give you financial security, and can include company savings plan (PEE), savings plan for collective retirement, mutual insurance for you and your family, loyalty bonus, a Time Savings Account to monetize untaken off days (CET)…
• A Work Council which offers ticketing, travel, sports, legal aid, Christmas vouchers, Summer break vouchers…
• Our family-focused benefits can help you to support your loved ones and include family events days off (wedding, civil union…), additional maternity or breastfeeding leave, birth bonus, partial reimbursement of childcare costs, assistance to employees taking care of a relative with disability…
• We’ll give you a huge range of resources that support your well-being (yoga, sophrology, Mindfulness app)
• You’ll have international opportunities - this can be your place to start and branch out to anywhere we have offices
• A work environment that promotes Diversity & Inclusion, where you’ll be able to join our different Employee Resource Groups
• These benefits are on top of local usual benefits in France (refund of transport fees at 50%, 5 weeks of paid vacation & RTT, meal voucher card or corporate restaurant depending on location)

HSBC has been certified “Top Employer 2026” in Europe. This recognition from the Top Employers Institute rewards our HR practices and recognises HSBC as an HR Leader in several countries in Continental Europe. Not only is HSBC a great place to work, but we also offer the following unique and exciting benefits & opportunities

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