Risk Specialist regarding IFRS9 model ownership

Do you get excited about stakeholder management in a complex model landscape? Do you want to work at the heart of Risk Management and are you interested in the strategy of the bank? You don’t have to choose! At Central Risk Management you will help define bank-wide enterprise risk management with a direct link to the overall strategy using your stakeholder management skills.

Central Risk Management enables the stakeholders to be in control. Through our expertise, knowledge & experience, integrated view and ability to pro-actively connect, we deliver on a stronger company. We take well considered decisions through our clear & powerful risk policies, ensuring transparent, stable and robust models that supply useful information. All this evidence supports decision making and a culture of efficient & effective control.

Currently we are looking for a Risk Specialist to join our team, specifically with a focus on the IFRS9 model ownership role and other IFRS9 provision related topics. Someone who gets inspired by connecting the modelling departments with the business. Stakeholder management is key, next to a healthy interest in models but also the ability to oversee the impact on the bank, and its strategy, of certain model changes. Someone who can connect the dots and is able to translate the challenges and changes in the IFRS9 model landscape, into a strategic advice towards Senior Management and the Regulator. By doing so, you generate impact for the bank!

If this sounds like you as a person in combination with your competences, then please contact us!

You will be working with an energetic group of people who share the same drive and vision. Our unique selling point is the diversity of topics and of our colleagues, who come from a background in Risk, Finance, Business or Consultancy and with multiple nationalities. We are always available to help each other. Furthermore, we make time for non-work related activities.

At CRM we give the possibility to work hybrid. We have at least one fixed day in the week were the team comes together at the Gustav Mahlerlaan. We have structural quarterly CRM meetings and we also enjoy “borrels” (drinks), attending (content relevant) events and departmental outings. We also work on our vitality together.

Although your initial placement will be largely within the domain that is characterized by working on IFRS9 model ownership, you will be part of the larger ERM Network. Within the ERM network colleagues could work part of their time on different domains to broaden your knowledge and to create a bank wide risk view. You will facilitate senior management to define an appropriate response to the material risks faced by the Bank. Based on our deliverables we contribute to informed strategic decisions and by that in defining and controlling the Bank’s strategy. The way of working of the ERM Network offers the opportunity to share your knowledge with and contribute to the deliverables of CRM in a broader context. At the same time it offers you the opportunity to learn more about the wider set-up of risk management.

You are a team player who is eager to learn and strives for quality. You are able to liaise with different departments and different management levels within the bank and able to analyse and understand model structures, their strengths and improvements points and can communicate the main points clearly. You are able to switch from a bird’s eye view to your eye for details, and you know when and how to ask for more information. Additionally, you have a good sense of humor.

We deliver high quality products for our internal and external stakeholders and provide advice to facilitate decision making process. To give some insight in what we do, we are:

• Coordinating the monthly provision calculations
• Model owner of several models; IFRS9 models, stress test models and EC models
• Coordinating bank wide themes like Stress Testing, Risk Appetite and ICAAP;
• Advising business lines on the translation of risks into pricing;
• Advising on bank wide risk weighted assets (RWA) & economic capital (EC);
• A centre of expertise with regard to prudential regulation, internal risk policies and risk governance

As all the risks are part of the integrated risk view, we have a good overview of the total risk profile of the bank. You will be part of a multidisciplinary team and work on one or several products. You will be provided with a knowledge intensive working environment.

We value knowledge sharing, within as well as outside of our own department. Together we are constantly in motion in order to respond to our changing environment, which is becoming more complex and demanding.

Check your profile:

• University degree
• 3-5 years of work experience
• Affinity with Risk, Finance or the (Banking) Business, proven track record on stakeholder management and translating underlying analyses in excellent visualizations and concise strategic conclusions and advices to senior management
• You are entrepreneurial, proactive, thorough and you have a practical mindset, Quantitative and complex problems give you energy
• You are flexible and able to work with deadlines

A challenging environment where there is a good work-life balance. We offer you the opportunity to develop yourself on hard as well as soft skills. You will have space for entrepreneurship and it is possible to receive responsibilities quickly. There are good opportunities for career growth. Over time you can develop towards a more advising/coordinating role or towards a senior specialist. We also offer you:

• The opportunity to be the best you can be, work flexible hours and lots of room to grow both personally and professionally
• A salary based on Hay grade 10
• A supplementary benefit budget of 11%, which you can spend on additional fringe benefits
• A personal development budget of EUR 1.000 per year
• An annual public transportation pass or travel budget, depending on the function,
• A solid pension plan

If you are interested and want to know more about this vacancy, please contact Geert-Jan Brinkman (geert-jan.brinkman@nl.abnamro.com) or Kim de Vries (kim.de.vries@nl.abnamro.com). We very much look forward meeting you.

The success of our organisation depends on the quality of our people and the ideas that they have. Truly surprising insights and innovative solutions for our clients result from an interplay of cultures, knowledge and experience. Diversity is therefore extremely important to our organisation. To ensure that everyone at ABN AMRO can develop their talents, we encourage an inclusive culture in which all colleagues feel engaged and appreciated.

External recruitment agencies need to have a signed agreement with ABN AMRO BANK N.V., executed by a Talent Acquisition Specialist, when submitting a resume to a vacancy. In addition, a recruitment agency can only submit a resume when invited by a Talent Acquisition Specialist to join the search for a right candidate. All unsolicited resumes sent to us will be considered property of ABN AMRO BANK N.V. In this case, ABN AMRO will not be held liable to pay a placement fee.

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