Data Management consultant - Risk and Regulatory Reporting

at  Finalyse

Our aim is to support our clients incorporating changes and innovations in valuation, risk and compliance. We share the ambition to contribute to a sustainable and resilient financial system and facing these extraordinary challenges is what drives us every day. Our people are empowered to design and implement efficient and pragmatic solutions. Acting as one team with our partners and clients, we bring a distinctive mix of financial and technological know-how. This unique blend of expertise, team spirit and fairness has contributed to more than 35 years of successful projects and trustful relationships.
At Finalyse, we believe that each member is unique and that diversity enriches us in many ways. We strive for an inclusive working environment that pursues mutual respect for each other’s beliefs and backgrounds.

Must-have requirements

• You have an MA or MSc in management sciences, applied economics or computer sciences.
• You have at least 2-4 years of experience in financial institutions with a strong understanding of banking business, financial products and how data and regulatory reporting processes interact.
• You have outstanding analytical skills.
• You are proficient in SQL, SAS or Python or other programming languages.
• You are familiar with BCBS 239 and its requirements for data governance, data quality, and risk management.
• You are able to work autonomously in a result-oriented environment.
• Good communication, writing and presentation skills with the ability to explain sophisticated issues in a simple but professional way.
• You are fluent in English (both verbal and written)

In an increasingly complex regulatory environment and financial world, shaping state-of-the-art reporting capability and data intelligence is essential to bank’s core business and financial stability. Finalyse embraces this evolution and is committed to maintain a cutting-edge approach in its Data Management Advisory services.
We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated risk data analyst to join our team.
You will be working on vital and massive finance and risk datasets, implementing reliable data aggregation solutions to fulfill management and regulatory reporting needs in the banking industry. In this role, you will have a direct impact on bank’s internal and external stakeholders.
The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of risk calculation and reporting and will be able to implement solutions that not only meets data quality standards but, most of all, business requirements that are meaningful for risk managers.

Responsibilities

• You participate to or lead engagements of our Risk Advisory practice for our banking and insurance clients to help them implement risk management solutions or data infrastructure for risk and regulatory reporting.
• You assist our clients in the processing and reporting of their risks: credit risk, market risk, interest rate risk, liquidity risk etc., from data collection, treatment, risk calculations and reporting.
• Your role will cover a wide range of responsibilities such as conducting workshops with business users, gathering business requirements, defining both functional & technical requirements. You will also guide and support the needed IT-testing.
• You are able to deep dive into details and investigate reconciliation issues with other reporting systems, such as accounting systems or other source systems.
• You advise our clients on how to implement data governance policies and procedures.
• You develop and maintain documentation for all data-related processes, including data lineage, data dictionary, data quality, in order to comply with BCBS 239 standards.

Must-have requirements

• You have an MA or MSc in management sciences, applied economics or computer sciences.
• You have at least 2-4 years of experience in financial institutions with a strong understanding of banking business, financial products and how data and regulatory reporting processes interact.
• You have outstanding analytical skills.
• You are proficient in SQL, SAS or Python or other programming languages.
• You are familiar with BCBS 239 and its requirements for data governance, data quality, and risk management.
• You are able to work autonomously in a result-oriented environment.
• Good communication, writing and presentation skills with the ability to explain sophisticated issues in a simple but professional way.
• You are fluent in English (both verbal and written).

Nice to have

• Understanding of one or more risk calculation (credit risk, market risk, ALM, climate risk, Liquidity risk,…) and reporting processes.
• Knowledge of European risk regulation (CRR2, CRR3, Basel IV).
• First-hand experience with Agile ways of working is a plus.