About Northern Trust:

Northern Trust, a Fortune 500 company, is a globally recognized, award-winning financial institution that has been in continuous operation since 1889.

Northern Trust is proud to provide innovative financial services and guidance to the world’s most successful individuals, families, and institutions by remaining true to our enduring principles of service, expertise, and integrity. With more than 130 years of financial experience and over 22,000 partners, we serve the world’s most sophisticated clients using leading technology and exceptional service.

Market Trading Risk Specialist

Overview:

The Market Trading Risk Specialist will assist in developing and monitoring risk management standards for the FX Trading. The position entails managing market, credit, and regulatory risk.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform core daily risk management oversight for FX Trading business including VaR analysis, open position monitoring, adherence to limits, and stress scenario modeling.

• Monitor market volatility through quantitative techniques to ensure principal exposure is within firm’s risk appetite.

• Maintain and assist in ongoing development of metrices and analysis of P&L attribution, regulatory capital consumption and return on capital / RWA.

• Responsible for leading the development of NT’s FRTB capabilities in accordance with the regulatory rules and expectations, with a focus on delivering FRTB Implementation.

• Develop analytical tooling to support FRTB capital analysis.

• Assist in establishing processes, documentation, and controls to manage risks associated with FX and derivatives.

• Interpret model outputs and communicate findings to stakeholders, including risk managers, capitals market team, and senior management.

• Conduct quantitative analysis to assess model performance and outcome for at top of the house portfolio and trading desk level.

• Collaborate with IT teams to ensure smooth integration of models and analytical tooling in existing systems and infrastructure.

• Prepare ad hoc risk analysis as required by senior business or risk personnel or as required for proposed products or services.

• Support risk analysis for Securities Finance counterparty portfolios as required by Credit Risk Management Policies. Responsibilities include – VaR model execution, analysis of results and presentation to Committees.

• Act as liaison with business units (FX Trading Desks, Securities Finance, Treasury) and internal control functions including Audit, Compliance and Model Validation team and assist in the resolution of any audit or control issues related to FX products.

Knowledge and skills:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, mathematics, economics or related discipline

• Master's or higher degree in Quantitative Finance, Economics, Math/Physics/Engineering or a related field of study preferred.

• 5 plus years of relevant work experience with foreign exchange or derivatives experience preferred or equivalent in VaR/ FRTB/Derivatives asset pricing or related quantitative fields.

• Knowledge of Capital Markets and financial products such as Foreign Exchange, Securities Lending, Treasury, and Investment Securities is preferred.

• Understanding of VaR, default and settlement risk, stress testing, and mark to market calculations.

• Expert level understanding of Microsoft office including Excel VBA.

• Comfortable working with large data sets that require joining tables from disparate databases.

• Experience with coding/building prototype risk models and reporting using Python, R, SQL etc.

• Must be comfortable working in fast paced environment with ability to make and communicate effective risk management decisions.

• Ability to articulate risk management policies and methodologies.

• Strong interpersonal, relationship and negotiation skills.

• Experience with the foreign exchange and derivative space.

• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.

• Strong written and verbal communi