Senior Asset

**INTRODUCTION**

A reputable financial institution is looking for a Senior Asset & Liability Management Risk Analyst in Pretoria.

**MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS**:

- Honours degree in Banking, Risk Management, Finance, Accounting or Auditing.
- Eight to ten years’ applicable experience in the banking or financial sector or within risk management.
- Detailed knowledge of Insurance, Annuity, and Banking products.
- Strong technical skills and knowledge of ALM, Basel I, II, III, liquidity management and capital planning.
- Knowledge of the risks that banks are faced with.
- Knowledge of the risks insurance companies face.
- Effective time management skills.
- Innovative analytical/problem-solving skills.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work in a team and contribute to team success.
- Ability to lead projects and work independently.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office software packages (i.e., Word, Excel and PowerPoint) and other related software packages.

**The following would be an added advantage**
- Applicable ALM-risk management experience.
- Conversant in the Basel frameworks - related to liquidity risk and interest-rate risk in the banking book - at both a theoretical and practical level, and be abreast of best practice in ALM risk management.
- Familiar with the liquidity risk and interest-rate risk in the banking book papers published by the Basel.
- Committee on Banking Supervision.
- Knowledge of the Banks Act and the Regulations relating to Banks will be an added advantage.
- Financial Risk Manager (FRM) or a Professional Risk Manager (PRMIA) qualification; and excellent risk and control knowledge.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Supervision**
- Review and evaluate banks’ ALM frameworks and reports (including assessing their capital requirements for both regulatory and economic capital, where applicable) and their ability to manage ALM-related risks, specifically liquidity risk and interest-rate risk in the banking book.
- Monitor insurance companies and financial institutions’ ALM-related risks.
- Provide expert guidance on matters relating to supervised institutions’ compliance with minimum regulatory requirements relating to ALM.
- Develop analytical methods to analyse and interpret risk-based regulatory data submissions.
- Conduct on
- and off-site reviews of ALM-related risks for the banking, insurance sector and financial market infrastructures.
- Provide specialist support with respect to ALM risks.
- Stay abreast of international best practices and developments surrounding ALM-related risks.
- Assist and contribute to the assessment of recovery plans compiled by supervised institutions.
- Inform the Prudential Authority (PA) in terms of the aggregate behaviour of banks regarding ALMrelated risks.
- Ensure that the own risk and solvency assessment (ORSA) process adequately captures ALMrelated risks.
- Own and support different ALM / interest rate risk modelling activities, including the development of a methodology that emphasises the consequential nature of liquidity risk in partnership with key stakeholders at RSD and the organisation.
- Produce, develop, and provide thought leadership for analytics and stress tests assessing the positioning of supervised institution's balance sheet.

**Regulation**
- Assist in terms of research and input into the regulatory framework (e.g., the Banks Act 94 of 1990.
- (Banks Act), the Regulations relating to Banks, circulars, directives and guidance notes) in line with international best practice.
- Build and maintain relationships with the policy division with the view to operationalised the insurance and FMI sector regulatory framework (e.g., circulars, directives and guidance notes)
- Develop internal policy and processes for regulating ALM-related risks.

**Training**
- Ensure widespread understanding of the concepts and developments in the fields of the abovementioned risks throughout the organisation.
- Keep abreast with the solvency II directive of 2009 and IAIS latest developments.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent