Director of Risk Job

Employer Name: FEP Search Group	SpiderID: 2848074
Location: Toronto, Ontario	Date Posted: 8/7/2009
Wage: $130K to $150K	Category: Accounting/Bookkeeping
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Job Description:
1) Support executive decision-making
2) Perform creative analysis and reporting solutions for leading edge trading and risk oversight
3) Apply sophisticated data mining techniques and expert judgment in selecting visual representations of results to provide management with a clear view of key business, and risk factors
4) Design market, credit, and operational risk dashboards that illustrate trends, utilize heat mapping concepts, and link financial risks to risk strategy as well as performance benchmarks
5) Consider a broader risk spectrum in design of dashboards by product line including relative size/market share, liquidity, transparency of valuations, etc.
6) Improve (continually) quality of data inputs to ensure that executive level summaries are built on sound fundamental details
7) Handle risk strategy and process consulting
8) Research new risk and trading strategies as well as ideas, and prepare presentations on these topics for management action
9) Liaise with trading floor and corporate risk areas with regard to issues that relate to market, credit and operational risk monitoring, and strategy adherence
10) Improve risk metrics and risk reporting
11) Develop recommendations and participate in implementation of improvements
12) Create process maps for operating groups
13) Identify areas of non-compliance or key points where control break down could carry risk of economic losses
14) Lead change management efforts to rectify problem areas
15) Track internal and external audit as well as regulatory recommendations for further opportunities to improve processes, and monitoring
16) Provide advice on Basel II and other capital-related matters
17) Assist with definition of risk limits
18) Monitor (daily) exposures against limits
19) Create an inventory of approved products, and track adherence to authorized products and strategies
20) Identify and handle anomalies in a timely fashion
21) Identify positions that have been booked or mapped incorrectly and coordinate efforts to rectify issues
22) Assist with quarterly financial reporting processes
23) Deal with front office personnel and various risk management groups as well as Finance and Operations

Job Requirements:
1) Master�s degree in Business, Mathematics, Physics or Economics
2) Knowledge of financial markets, derivatives products, trading room activities, operations processes and Straight Through Processing systems
3) Familiarity with constructing flow charts, process maps, dashboards, heat maps and charts
4) Expertise in using data mining tools
5) Experience in working with relational databases (filtering rows, joining tables, etc.)
6) Superb organizational skills
7) Excellent interpersonal and communication (written and oral) skills
8) Ability to present and facilitate group discussions
9) Ability to create visual design for communicating data
10) Ability to build strong working relationships with various areas (internal and external) while providing outstanding client and business partner service
11) Ability to adapt to constantly evolving systems and product requirements
12) Excellent statistical and financial modeling as well as practical application skills
13) Ability to offer analytical solutions for process enhancements

Applicants are encouraged to apply directly by going to: http://www.fepsearchgroup.com/accounting-jobs/accounting-job-01044.html

Contact Information:

Contact Name: Jane Shah	Company Type: Employer
Company: FEP Search Group

City: Toronto
State: Ontario
Zip: M5G 1T6

Web Site: http://www.fepsearchgroup.com/acct.htm