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Your career opportunity
This role resides under Wholesale Credit and Market Risk function and is part of the Global Risk Organisation.
Traded Risk function monitors, evaluates and manages market and counterparty risks impacting across the HSBC Group. It is responsible for establishing the global risk management framework for Traded Risk and plays a key role in ensuring that the Bank is compliant with current and future regulatory requirements relating to Traded Risks and their capitalization. Traded Risk Manager serves as people manager and subject matter expert within the near-shore Traded Risk team. He is a results-driven individual with an understanding of risk data, process, analysis and systems that aspires to innovate, improve and embed solutions that enable effective risk management.

What you’ll do
    • Actively participate and manage the rollout of new initiatives and deployment of skilled resources. Act as the escalation point and take accountability for the overall sub-team managed
    • Perform daily risk monitoring, reporting and analysis against risk limits as well as major risk drivers. Perform enhanced PFE (Potential Future Exposure) counterparty reviews and analyse data providing quantitative and qualitative summary to the risk managers, relationship managers and senior management.
    • Identify and escalate issues to Risk Management through review and validation of risk data, controls and reporting.
    • Lead, coordinate or support internal initiatives to deal with regulatory challenges as well as optimise the control framework of the Traded Risk function. Assist with the delivery of Traded Risk projects.
    • Support the change delivery of risk systems at a global level across a project’s lifecycle including providing requirement, assisting development and UAT testing. Coordination of development and implementation of new reports/risk engines to improve risk visibility (e.g. PFE, Wrong Way Risk, etc.).
    • Act as a subject matter expert with respect to counterparty risk processes and create procedures where appropriate.
    • Act as a business partner to improve existing IT risk infrastructure.
    • Ensure alignment of function with Global Operating Model. Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders including Risk Managers, Front Office, Global Markets Middle Office, Product Control, etc.

What you need to have to succeed in this role
    • University graduate in finance, mathematics, computer science or any other quantitative related degrees.
    • Preferably international financial/risk accreditation e.g. CFA, FRM, PRM.
    • 5+ years of relevant experience in banking e.g. Risk, Product Control, Front Office, Middle Office, preferably with a focus in traded credit and counterparty risk. 
    • In-depth knowledge of vanilla and structured products traded within financial markets.
    • Good understanding of financial markets as well as key credit risk measures (inc. LGD, EAD, PD) and methodologies used to assess risk.
    • Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office is a must. Desirable working knowledge of software/database development tools (VBA, Python, R, SQL, SAS, MATLAB, etc.).
    • Strong interpersonal skills. Excellent analytical and problem solving skills. Strong eagerness to learn and grow along with the capacity to work collaboratively as a team.
    • Excellent presentation skills to brief senior management on topics and summarize key information. Good business analysis skills will be an asset.

What we offer
Competitive salary
Annual performance-based bonus
Additional bonuses for recognition awards
Multisport card
Private medical care
Life insurance
One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN).
Corporate parties & events
CSR initiatives
Nursery discounts
Financial support with trainings and education
Social fund
Flexible working hours 
Free parking

If your CV meets our criteria, you should expect the following steps in the recruitment process:
Online behavioural test (for external candidates only)
Telephone screen (for external candidates only)
Zoom interview with the hiring manager 

We are looking to hire as soon as possible so don’t wait and apply now!
You'll achieve more when you join HSBC.

We thank all interested candidates for their applications. We reserve the right to contact only selected candidates.

In case you would like to resign from participation in recruitment process or withdraw previously sent to us application, please email us at: krakow.recruitment@hsbc.com

Nom du recruteur
Dorota Such
E-mail du recruteur
dorota.such@hsbc.com