Senior Functional Consultant - Enterprise Risk

Job Description

Position Type : Full time Type Of Hire : Experienced (relevant combo of work and education) Education Desired : Bachelor of Commerce/Business Travel Percentage : 0%Senior Functional Consultant - Enterprise RiskAre you curious, motivated, and forward-thinking At FIS you ll have the opportunity to work on some of the most challenging and relevant issues in financial services and technology. Our talented people empower us, and we believe in being part of a team that is open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, passionate and above all fun.About the teamCIOs, heads of investment, traders, portfolio managers, risk managers worldwide are looking to use technology to simplify and streamline key department functions, while having the ability to handle increasingly complex asset classes.FIS Adaptiv suite of products provides advanced Credit and Market Risk Management functionality to top tier banks and financial institutions around the world for the risk exposures to a variety of asset classes in their Trading and Banking book portfolios. This enables the financial institutions to provide efficient treasury operations, collateral management, risk management, compliance to regulatory standards and optimum use of regulatory capital.The Adaptiv Professional services is a result oriented, client focused, dynamic team. We undertake New Implementation, Product Customization and Product Upgrade services for the clients to optimize the use of Adaptiv products for the bank s business for their ever-growing business.The Adaptiv Credit and Market Risk Engines and Enterprise Risk infrastructure offers rich functionality around valuations of exotic derivatives, market risk ( VAR, Expected Shortfall, Sensitivities ), Credit risk (PFE, credit exposures ), XVAs and provides regulatory calculations for standards such as SACCR, FRTB, SIMM.What you will be doingThe Adaptiv Lead Consultant (Functional) will work independently and within a team environment to provide professional services to FIS customers using the Adaptiv software solution including, but not limited to: project implementation services, solution configuration, solution customization and product training. The Senior Functional Consultant makes required assessments and adherent decisions to protect and defend FIS interests within the given framework of a mandate.

• Works individually or within a team on technology business consulting projects to meet specific client requirements
• Lead and will participate in the conduct of business requirement studies and other project related activities
• Configures Adaptiv to meet Client s requirements (including, but not limited to: products, pricing, risk calculations, workflows, functionality, model configuration)
• Performs calibration of pricing models and provides validation support for risk results (e.g. VaR, SIMM) in Adaptiv.
• Creates functional specifications for customisation or core software enhancements; business process and product requirements definition
• May liaise with Product Management to communicate Client requirements and expectations and get those implemented.
• Conducts unit and systems tests; supports System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and/or mock rehearsals activities of clients
• Provides continual feedback to the project manager promptly highlighting any potential issues to allow a proactive solution to be offered
• Creates project documentation and deliverables
• Provides training on Adaptiv to clients as well as colleagues
• May act as team leader for functional aspects of consulting projects. Mentor, guide, advise and/or check work of less experienced business systems analysts and technology business consultants
• Contributes to the constant improvement of his/her domain through innovation and development of tools.
• Actively participates as a pre-sales resource in the pre-project phases at customers and prospects as a representative of the Professional Services organization.
• Proactively uncovers and qualifies new business opportunities with customers.

What you bring:Knowledge / Experience

• 10+ years experience implementing market and credit risk solutions for investment banks, with a risk product vendor.
• Experience implementing risk regulations such as SIMM, FRTB, SACCR. Understanding of the data requirements and calculations.
• Advanced knowledge of various financial instruments including exotic and structured products, their valuation models, model calibration and the related mathematical theory.
• Experience in functional aspects of enterprise financial software package configuration, customisation, integration and/or implementation projects
• Demonstrated experience in the analysis of systems and data to identify and understand new requirements
• Demonstrated experience with functional aspects of Order Management, Asset Management, Treasury and/or Enterprise Risk Management systems

Skills

• Strong analytical and numerical skills
• Certification in Risk Management PRM/CFA/FRM or equivalent in related field
• Excellent hands on SQL, Excel VBA. Knowledge of C# .NET would be advantageous.
• Excellent English written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Good presentation skills
• Quick learner with the ability to work independently

Qualifications

• Masters degree 10+ years relevant experience
• PRM/CFA/FRM or equivalent in related field.

Competencies

• Fluent in English
• Excellent communicator ability to discuss technical and commercial solutions to internal and external parties and adapt depending on the technical or business focus of the discussion
• Attention to detail track record of authoring high quality documentation
• Organized approach manage and adapt priorities according to client and internal requirements
• Self-starter but team mindset - work autonomously and as part of a global team
• Willing to travel occasionally (around 20-30%)

What we offer you

• A multifaceted job with a high degree of responsibility and a broad spectrum of opportunities
• A broad range of professional education and personal development possibilities FIS is your final career step!
• A competitive salary and benefits
• A variety of career development tools, resources and opportunities

With a 50-year history rooted in the financial services industry, FIS is the worlds largest global provider dedicated to financial technology solutions. We champion clients from banking to capital markets, retail to corporate and everything touched by financial services. Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, our 53,000 worldwide employees help serve more than 20,000 clients in over 130 countries. Our technology powers billions of transactions annually that move over $9 trillion around the globe. FIS is a Fortune 500 company and is a member of Standard & Poor s 500 Index.FIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the FIS Online Privacy Notice.Privacy StatementFIS is committed to protecting the privacy and security of all personal information that we process in order to provide services to our clients. For specific information on how FIS protects personal information online, please see the Online Privacy Notice.Sourcing ModelRecruitment at FIS works primarily on a direct sourcing model; a relatively small portion of our hiring is through recruitment agencies. FIS does not accept resumes from recruitment agencies which are not on the preferred supplier list and is not responsible for any related fees for resumes submitted to job postings, our employees, or any other part of our company.#pridepass,

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