Our client is an investment and asset management company in
Africa. They seek to recruit a highly experienced and visionary Financial Risk Manager. The successful candidate will be responsible in detecting and
scrutinizing all possible risks that may end up impacting on an organization’s
financial success and making recommendations to the management on measures that
can help mitigate the business risks.
Title: Risk Manager – Financial Services
Industry: Asset Management/Investment Banking
Location: Nairobi
Salary: 120k – 150k
Responsibilities
- Anticipate and analyse prevailing market
trends at any particular period and communicate the recommendations to the
management.
- Develop risk management controls and systems
- Design processes to eliminate or mitigate potential
risks
- Assess all related risks by conducting
financial researches
- Calculate all risks related to business and
transaction proposals as well as formulating contingency plans for the
organization
- Recommend to the organization improvement
precautionary measures
- Support the project management endeavours of
the organization
- Proffer professional assistance and advice on
related mathematical models that help the organization to valuate
financial instruments, optimize problems, and model market behaviours
- Provide professional assistance to financial
and economic team of the organization
- Guide the company regarding Asset and
Liability management for end-to-end basis in areas like ALM operating
model redesign and review, system implementation and policy review
- Establish and implement interest rate risk in
liquidity and banking book risk system for end-to-end basis
- Contribute to the success of oral presentation
regarding client’s needs and take part in efforts towards proposal
development
- Build and maintain good relationship with all
decision makers regarding key clients
- Practice and promote a culture of high-quality
standards, integrity, and ethics across the Company.
Qualifications
- At least 4 years as risk manager in an
investment company.
- Must have business-related Bachelor’s Degree
- A Post Graduate Qualification in a
business-related field will be an added advantage;
- Possess relevant professional qualification(s)
such as CPA or ACCA or CIA or CISA;
- Have a thorough understanding of the
investment industry, board reporting, as well as demonstrable commercial
and investment acumen.
- Analytical mind with problem-solving aptitude
How to Apply
If you are up to the challenge, possess
the necessary qualifications and experience; please send your CV only
quoting the job title on the email subject (Risk
Manager) to jobs@gaprecruitment.co.ke on
or before Friday 19th May 2020.
Kindly indicate your current/last
salary on your CV