Job Description

As risk managers, we operate in a challenging and dynamic work environment. To succeed, we need the best people with the right skills and mindset.

Are you an analytical thinker with the ability to create, challenge and improve risk measurement and monitoring processes? Then you have the opportunity to join Capital & Treasury Risk Management of Financial Risk for a 4 to 6 months period Short Term Assignment. This is a unique opportunity to get hands-on experience in financial risk management combined with a close business contact.

Scope and Main Role of the Department

The Financial Risk (FR) department is a head office function that sets and controls financial risk strategy across the organization. The department provides strategic guidance on financial risks across divisions (trading book, banking book and balance sheet risk), safeguards regulatory compliance as well as capital and liquidity adequacy.

Capital & Treasury Risk Management Chapter of Financial Risk is responsible for globally heading the functional country steering and oversight of Treasury risk and overseeing the Credit Spread, Equity and Foreign Exchange Risk across ING banking Books, supporting balance sheet management and capital adequacy. The team also acts as local market / ALM risk manager for the Treasury activities in Amsterdam.

Your work environment

Capital & Treasury Risk Chapter is a head office based, young, energetic & international team consisting of 14 FTE’s. The team has an open, informal atmosphere and a strong focus on ‘take it on and make it happen’ mentality. Unlike traditional banks, we work according to agile principles where we plan our work into manageable pieces by means of bi-weekly sprint plannings. You have the opportunity to keep learning, take on more responsibility and challenge yourself in this team.

Roles & Responsibilities

During this STA you will take an active role in :

• Monitoring market and ALM risk metrics in treasury business books globally as well as local risk manager for Amsterdam

• Advice & challenge Treasury business on their day to day hedging & investment decision as well as understanding and explaining their impact on all the internal & regulatory risk limits

• Take an active role in streamlining, simplifying operational work processes of the team by means of automation and or challenging roles and responsibilities across all lines of defence

How to succeed

To thrive in this temporary role, you bring:

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to create, challenge and improve risk monitoring processes and methodologies

• Good functional understanding of the financial product groups IRD, FXMM and Fixed Income

• Excellent coding skills in Python and VBA

• Good communication skills & a real team player with a pro-active attitude

• Result-driven and able to push things forward in a persistent and constructive manner while remaining flexible towards changing situations

• Able to manage different stakeholders and navigate through different cultural environments

• Well structured and able to adopt a disciplined agile way of working

Candidates with relevant experience in Trading / Treasury front office, risk management & product control (market/treasury/ALM) roles will have our preference.

Rewards and benefits

This is an internal temporary assignment (STA). Your current employment conditions remain applicable.