SENIOR RISK ANALYST - BARCLAYS BANK OF BOTSWANA

Unique opportunity to take your career to the next level

Barclays Bank of Botswana has exciting career opportunities for high performing and self-driven individuals across various functions. We are looking to fill the following position;

Senior Risk Analyst

Job Purpose

• Providing Risk functions (Consumer Credit, Wholesale Credit, Market Risk, Risk & Control Unit and Operational Risk) with analytical solutions/ monitoring packs and MI to manage portfolios effectively ensuring process compliance as per policy guidelines.
• Provide support and oversight on submissions done by the MI Analyst team.
• Assess Corporate and Investment Banking and the Retail and Business Banking portfolio profitability, growth and risks on an on-going basis
• Ensure Group reporting deadlines are adhered to at all times.
• Ensure that PD (Probability of Default) and LGD (Loss Given Default) models are understood and input into its development are provided
• Lead impairment forecasting and provide analysis required to make informed decisions
• Liaise, co-ordinate and provide various inputs and responses, as required, on impairments, forecasting, MI and analytics to all stakeholders
• Provide data and analytical support to the Consumer Credit team to establish month end impairments forecasts and understand impairment drivers.
• Provide data and analytical data for required policy changes on the Consumer and Wholesale portfolio.
• Portfolio Management: provide required data to Consumer Credit and Wholesale Credit to inform the business on imminent trends as well provide analytical data on the same.
• Ensure all modeling issues are pro-actively identified and addressed by regularly engaging with relevant stakeholders, and where model inputs appear to be missing or inaccurate, addressing and communicating with stakeholders.

Requirements

Main Accountabilities

• Service Delivery
• Relationship Management
• Controls and Compliance

Experience and Qualification

• B-degree in in mathematics/statistics/economics/ computer science
• 5 years Technical experience in programming.

Knowledge and Skills

• Knowledge of Banking products.
• Specialist knowledge of SAS, SQL and other statistical programming languages
• Knowledge of Operating Systems (Windows 7 professional or latest version)
• Highly analytical mindset
• MS Office Skills (Preferably Word, Excel & PowerPoint)

Closing date and application instructions

To view a full profile of the job including job requirements/competencies, and to apply follow the link:

https://barclays.taleo.net/careersection/2/moresearch.ftl?lang=en_GB

Please note that we do not accept hard copies of applications and only short listed candidates will be responded to.

Closing Date: Saturday, 25 June 2016