Risk Analyst

Locations:- Chicago, IL (within 50 miles)

W2 Candidates (minimum 12 month validity)

Hybrid/ Onsite: Hybrid

Note: min 6 years of experience as a Risk Analyst.

Job Description

The FICC Risk support role requires someone who can work in high pressure trading environment and assimilate information from multiple sources quickly. The role requires a good problem solver, and someone who can adhere to strict procedures and guidelines which include incident, service request and change management.

Role Responsibilities

The following are key responsibilities fulfilled by a Risk MAPS Analyst (although not limited to):

• First point of contact for business requests and reported impact
• Monitoring and alerting of critical trading system environments
• Release implementation and post-release testing
• Build and maintain strong partnerships with business stakeholders, application development personnel, and infrastructure contacts
• Troubleshooting of complex systems issues
• Proactive identification and resolution of problem hotspots
• Development of tools and driving efficiency/stability improvements
  
  

Responsibilities

The core set of skills that are needed in the role are:

• Comfortable leading daily technical change meetings managing global resources through the banks change process
• Report generation through presentation and analysis tools like: Tableau and MS Office
• Well-rounded understanding of Software Development Lifecycle
• Adherence to written procedures and policies for Change Management
  
  

The Ability To Develop Expertise Quickly And Independently Is a Highly Valued Attribute Of The MAPS FICC Risk Support Analyst. An Effective Analyst Commonly Exhibits The Following Behaviors

• The ability to rationalize the impact of multiple concurrent issues/requests and prioritize work accordingly
• An independent sense of motivation to continuously improve themselves and the environment
• An intuitive problem-solving ability which leads to solution alternatives that reflect the analyst’s diverse foundation of knowledge, skills and experiences
• The confidence, focus, and adaptable communication style required to effectively coordinate restoration efforts for high-impact technology incidents
  
  

The core set of technical skills that are beneficial in the role are:

• Operating systems: Solaris, Linux, Windows
• Scripting languages: Unix Shell, Perl, Python, SQL (Intermediate level: multi-table joins, grouping results, etc...)
• Grid computing and batch management
• Well rounded understanding of infrastructure disciplines (network, server, storage, messaging
  
  

Other Skills Required

• The ability to rationalize the impact of multiple concurrent issues/requests and prioritize work accordingly
• An independent sense of motivation to continuously improve themselves and their environment
• An intuitive problem-solving ability which leads to solution alternatives that reflect the analyst’s diverse foundation of knowledge, skills and experiences
• The confidence, focus, and adaptable communication style required to effectively coordinate restoration efforts for high-impact technology incidents
  
  

Personal Skills - must be resilient and confident working in a high-pressure FO trading environment. Excellent communication skills essential. Leadership.

Python

Incident, Problem and Release management ITRS Enterprise monitoring. Experience supporting traders.