Financial Risk Manager

About the role

Our Deloitte Regulatory, Risk & Forensic team helps client leaders translate multifaceted risk and an evolving regulatory environment into defensible actions that strengthen, protect, and transform their organizations. Join our team and use advanced data, AI, and emerging technologies with industry insights to help clients bring clarity from complexity and accelerate their path to value creation.

Responsibilities

• Identify, evaluate, and prioritize business, operational, regulatory, and technology risks as well as risk mitigation strategies for our clients
• Understand the impact of key technology trends and workforce changes impacting our clients through engagement with innovative and emergent technologies, including cloud computing, big data and analytics, process automation, artificial intelligence / machine learning, and other digital strategies
• Manage the development of client deliverables or for internal business needs
• Serve on workstreams for complex projects, liaise with client counterparts, and actively participate in discussions on project management and work delivery needs
• Manage project teams in providing recommendations to improve or transform processes to gain efficiencies or scale or reduce risk for our clients
• Manage internal business development initiatives and sales opportunities, including the creation of external-facing industry perspectives, lead generation materials, or sales proposals
• Produce quality work products independently and collectively with team members throughout development lifecycle from initial conception to implementation
• Engage with industry participants on market trends, competitive activities, and topic-specific discussions impacting the industry, potentially including with clients, industry consortiums, or trade groups or committees

Requirements

• Exceptional records of professional achievement, experience working in a relevant financial services industry sector, and a demonstrated capacity and enthusiasm for self-paced development
• Motivate others, build constructive relationships with clients and colleagues, and work both independently and as part of a team
• Demonstrate an aptitude for complex problem-solving and analytical skills and the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and persuasively across a variety of strategic, operational, technological, and risk management matters

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Statistics, Mathematics, or related field
• 7+ years of experience in the financial services or consulting industry, supporting one or more of financial risk/related areas: Credit Risk, Liquidity Risk, Market Risk, Capital Management/Stress Testing
• Knowledge of financial services business models, products, and services
• Strong relationship management skills, particularly the ability to build constructive and productive working relationships with clients and among Deloitte practitioners
• Understanding of business processes, regulatory requirements, technology and governance for financial institutions
• Strong project / program management skills, particularly possessing a strong work ethic, a commitment to excellence in work product delivery, and the ability to independently manage multiple priorities and deadlines
• Strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to lead business proposal development and sales presentations
• Ability to travel up to 50%, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree and/or certification (e.g., Quant MS, MBA, FRM, CFA, CRCM, CPA, PMP)
• Expertise in one or more Financial Risk domains: Credit Risk, Liquidity Risk, Market Risk, Capital Management/Stress Testing
• Familiarity with key regulatory initiatives and supervisory ecosystem (e.g., Dodd-Frank; FRB/Fed, OCC, CFTC), plus strong grasp of associated models, data, processes, and controls
• Hands-on ability to analyze/model data using common languages/tools (Python, R, SAS, SQL)
• Experience supporting or implementing systems (trading, operations, lending, core banking, compliance, risk/case management, or data management)
• Familiarity with topics such as process design or mapping, workflow development, data management or migration, or analytics/visualization
• Experience with user acceptance testing, system configuration, monitoring, or issue resolution
• Ability to translate risk or regulatory requirements into actionable user stories or business needs
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Visio)