A Career in Financial Services
SUMMARY: Risk Management entails the assessment of credit and market conditions and scenarios to safeguard a bank's exposure incurred by an aggressive trading appetite. Using a range of quantitative tools risk figures and reports are produced as well as complex transactions analysed in order to calculate what capital should be kept in a banks reserves.
BACKGROUND: Invariably a quantitative education is required such as a numerate degree maths, physics, chemistry, engineering and this is usually supplemented by an MsC in a similar subject - modelling skills are advantageous as are knowledge of programming codes SQL,VBA,C++
CAREER PROGRESSION: a move to board management, trading and quantitative analysis are all potential moves.
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