Infrastructure / Risk
Robust risk management is a fundamental part of ICAP's business. The Group has classified its exposure into eight risk types: operational, credit, market, liquidity, financial, regulatory, reputational and strategic. As a broker, intermediating flow between trading counterparties, the Group does not take proprietary risk positions and is therefore not structurally exposed to either significant market prices or related credit risk. The principal risks which it identified and for which it prepared have proven to be the ones it faced during the recent economic dislocation of the financial markets. The effective management of these risks resulted in ICAP suffering no significant loss during this exceptional period. While ICAP's approach to risk has been proven over the past 18 months, we nevertheless constantly seek to improve the maturity, robustness and sustainability of our Group-wide risk management framework and to promote enhanced risk management discipline across all business and supporting functions.
It's a fast-paced and dynamic environment which means you'll have access to exciting opportunities including preparing analytical reports assessing the level of risk in the extension of new and renewal of credit facilities; conducting country analysis; maintaining knowledge of certain assigned industries and reviewing MIS reports products by and for business divisions to ensure robust exception controls.
Who we are looking for
"ICAP doesn't bear risk in the same way the big investment banks do. This means it continues to offer great growth prospects in spite of the current market volatility - and a career focused on job performance and satisfaction."
Edward Lane, Risk, London
ICAP's business is all about building relationships - both internal and external - and you'll need to be able to form effective, professional networks quickly. You'll need a sound credit knowledge of financial institutions, hedge funds and brokers and product knowledge of capital markets instruments. You'll also need a general understanding of exposure models and an ability to understand systems architectures.
We have a range of opportunities in Risk depending on your region. For more information on current roles available and deadlines please visit the vacancy search engine at Apply Now or read more about what it is like to work in Risk broking by reading Edward Lane's profile.
To download a pdf of our Risk job description please click here.
