XVA Market Risk Analyst

Vacancy details

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About Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank (Crédit Agricole CIB)

Crédit Agricole CIB is the corporate and investment banking arm of Crédit Agricole Group, the 10th largest banking group worldwide in terms of balance sheet size (The Banker, July 2022). 8,600 employees in more than 30 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia-Pacific, the Middle-East and North Africa, support the Bank's clients, meeting their financial needs throughout the world. Crédit Agricole CIB offers its large corporate and institutional clients a range of products and services in capital market activities, investment banking, structured finance, commercial banking and international trade. The Bank is a pioneer in the area of climate finance, and is currently a market leader in this segment with a complete offer for all its clients.

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Reference: 2025-98549

Update date: 26/03/2025

Job description

Business type: Risk Management / Control

Job title: XVA Market Risk Analyst

Contract type: Permanent Contract

Management position: No

Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for individual with prior experience within the Market Risk space to join the Market Risk team in charge of XVA and Collateral Management. In addition to the monitoring of our counterparty and funding risks, you'll be responsible for improving the accuracy of our measures, enhancing our methodologies in a constantly evolving market and regulatory landscape, supporting the market activity monitoring teams both quantitatively and qualitatively, and ensuring a consistent framework across businesses. You'll work closely with the business, IT, finance, model validation and market activity monitoring teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor the business activity and compliance with limits and mandate
• Analyse and report market risk exposure, understand the position to anticipate potential market impacts and hot topics
• Analyse one-off, new limit and new product requests
• Ensure risks are calculated and captured appropriately
• Enhance our risk management methodologies
• Drive XVA-related projects
• Mentor intern and work in collaboration with other members of the team

Position location

Geographical area: Europe, United Kingdom

City: London

Candidate criteria

Minimal education level: Postgraduate degree - MA/MSc/PhD/Doctorate or equivalent

Academic qualification / Speciality

• MSc in finance, economics, maths, engineering, or other numerate degree

Experience

• Experience in capital markets: risk department (preferably market risk), or trading
• Strong knowledge of derivatives products
• Robust understanding of market risk. Counterparty risk desirable
• Attention to detail, problem solving, autonomy, organizational skills and ability to multitask
• Ability to explain a complex topic in simple terms and manage various stakeholders

Required skills

• Proficiency in Excel and VBA. Python and SQL would be a plus

Languages: English