Senior/Chief Analyst for Capital Risk & Scenarios

at  Danske Bank

Do you have an analytical mind set? Are you curious and determined to understand what drives the changes you see in numbers? Do you have a positive and collaborative attitude? Then keep on reading - because you might be the perfect candidate for this Senior/Chief Analyst position!
Good risk and capital management are a foundation for Danske Banks ability to support customers through the business cycle and support long-term sustainable progress in society. Based on a solid understanding and analysis of the banks risk profile, we set the boundaries for the business to operate within and engage in an active dialogue to support risk awareness. We use our understanding of risks and risk drivers to support best practice capital management and use capital as an aggregated measure of risks.
The team is part of Group Risk Management in the second line of defence. As a risk function, our role is to uphold a sound risk culture and being a relevant and competent challenger for the business. The team is responsible for setting the capital and credit risk tolerances, and for ensuring relevant scenarios are available for stress testing. In addition, the team challenges and reviews the Group’s internal capital stress test and capital plan from a risk perspective.
We offer you an opportunity to build (or further develop) a solid understanding of capital risk management including the regulatory framework, and practical experience from one of the main banks in the Nordics.
Depending on your experience and knowledge, we may offer you different seniority in the role.

Some of your key tasks:

• Take an active role in dialogue across the organisation related to risk aggregation and stress testing incl. facilitation of discussions in our forum for stress test experts.
• Support an ongoing evaluation of known and emerging risks.
• Contribute to ensuring a best practice risk tolerance framework and maintenance of a solid governance framework.

We expect you to have experience from the financial sector, a regulator or have otherwise established an understanding for how a bank operates.
We see you as someone who is bringing your own view to the table, have a good overview and are solution orientated. We expect you to engage actively with colleagues and share your knowledge and experience.
To succeed in this role, you will benefit from strong stakeholder and communication skills. Good English skills (spoken and written) is a prerequisite as much of our internal dialogue is in English. Most importantly you possess a good amount of independency and enjoy managing new tasks in a changing environment.

• Take an active role in dialogue across the organisation related to risk aggregation and stress testing incl. facilitation of discussions in our forum for stress test experts.
• Support an ongoing evaluation of known and emerging risks.
• Contribute to ensuring a best practice risk tolerance framework and maintenance of a solid governance framework