Market Risk Manager

**Role Purpose**:
Market Risk Management (MRM) function is responsible of the risk management of Paris based trading business lines. In this role the risk manager will be responsible for identification of key markets related risk issues for Paris activity setting market risk limits, reviewing new products, assisting with key regulatory initiatives, managing the development of key risk system infrastructure and communication/elevation of key issues in order to maintain credit markets risk management of the highest possible standards.

The person in this role will demonstrate outstanding leadership and management skills with respect to direct reports, as well as MRM and Fixed Income markets focused personnel in other support areas. They will also need to establish a very strong partnership with front office business management, credit risk management, capital management, regulatory finance, the quantitative model review group & IT whilst maintaining the ability to question and contest as necessary.

**Principal Accountabilities: Key activities and decision making areas**:
**Impact on the Business**:

- Provision of market risk management information to senior management as necessary to enable decision making with regards to positions
- Provide management with expert advice on market risk and VaR related regulatory charges and controls
- Implementation of systems strategy to ensure that the market risk function is able to effectively and efficiently perform its core functions.
- Reviewing new products and structures to identify all material market risks and ensuring effective controls surround these to ensure appropriate risk management occurs during their life cycle
- Development of stress testing scenarios, reverse stress testing and the stress testing platform
- Oversight of the market risk monitoring processes with respect to market conditions, regardless of whether close or in excess of limits, and escalation of any identified inappropriate activity to senior management.

**Customers / Stakeholders**:

- Front Office (trading and quant desk)
- Senior MRM and Market Risk Control (MRC)
- Global Risk Analytics Team
- Markets IMR
- FO IT and Risk IT
- Capital Management and Regulatory Finance
- Product Control

**Leadership & Teamwork**:

- Provide strong leadership and management for Fixed Income Markets MRM
- Work effectively with the other MRM teams locally and globally
- Build relationships with all customers & stakeholders, key support functions and senior managers
- Add value to Global Banking and Markets trading operations by protecting shareholder value through a balanced approach to commercial market risk management vis-à-vis a strict monitoring and limit based framework

**Operational Effectiveness & Control**:

- Manage key risk methodology, systems and processes strategy to ensure effective tools are in place to support high standard of market risk management
- Development of efficient and streamlined market risk processes in conjunction with the control team
- Track and contribute to FO system strategy

**Typical KPIs and Targets**:
**Impact on the Business**:

- Absence of material losses made on positions that have not been previously identified by MRM and communicated to senior management
- Set appropriate market risk limits in conjunction with senior management
- Ensure that the risk reporting for relevant areas is accurate and timely and guide the risk reporting team where necessary
- Timely reporting /escalation of risks & issues to stakeholders and Head of Traded Risk Europe
- Evidence of good working relationship with senior traders, trading management and other business areas such as credit, Risk IT, regulatory finance and capital management.
- Project leadership
- Management of the annual market risk limit review for Fixed Income business lines
- Oversight / delivery of stressed VaR for Fixed Income business lines
- Demonstrate compliance with all relevant internal and external rules, regulations.
- Maintain HSBC Internal Control standards, including the timely implementation of internal and external audit points together with any issues raised by external regulators.
- Highlight operational risk associated with Fixed Income market trading and related operations.

**Customers / Stakeholders**:

- Thorough understanding of the risks on the books
- Detailed and up-to-date knowledge of market developments
- Proactive identification of potential areas of concern
- Desk interaction, esp. with respect to large or stale risk positions
- Continuous clear communication with all stakeholders
- Clear communication of key risks and critical issues to Senior Management
- Proactive identification and resolution of process limitations impacting market risk

**Leadership & Teamwork**:

- Consistent and contentious contribution to the Fixed Income MRM.
- Demonstrate strong working relationships with all key staff
- Strong technical & fundamental knowledge of credit and rates products and comprehensive