Risk Consulting - Manager-Credit Risk Quant

Risk Consulting MENA FS Risk Credit Risk - Manager

Divisional Overview

EY GDS Risk Consulting is a unique, industry-focused business unit that provides a broad range of integrated services that leverage deep industry experience with strong functional capability and product knowledge.

EYs MENA Financial Services Risk Management (FSRM) team, part of the EY GDS Risk Consulting Practice, delivers tailored risk solutions to help clients identify, assess, manage, and monitor a range of financial and regulatory risks. These include market (trading book), credit (banking book), operational, and regulatory risks arising from trading, asset-liability management, capital management, and broader capital markets activities. The division is ideal for collaborative individuals who have strong ethics and attention to detail.

Within FSRM, the Credit Risk (CR) team focuses on supporting clientsranging from large domestic banks to global financial institutionsin implementing strategic, functional, and regulatory transformations across credit risk management within their banking book portfolios.

You will work within different sized, multi-disciplinary teams and play a key role in ensuring high quality outputs and service to our clients. The role involves developing knowledge and implementing new solutions to meet the ever-changing needs of our clients. We value intellectual curiosity and a passion for promoting solutions across organizational boundaries.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of 5-6 Senior consultants, analysts for engagement execution and delivery. You will also spend teaming up with industry professionals to develop and deliver a wide range of risk management strategies and solutions
• Showcase exceptional project management abilities and foster a collaborative environment and accountability among team members on engagements
• Demonstrate deep technical expertise and industry knowledge, particularly in financial products with a focus on lending solutions.
• Design, assessment, and benchmarking of financial risk management policies, frameworks, methodologies covering a range of risk domains such as credit risk, market risk, operational risk, liquidity risk, climate risk, and integrated risk topics viz., capital adequacy and stress testing measurement methodologies in financial institutions (FI)
• Stay abreast of market trends and challenges in the financial services sector to understand client needs and industry dynamics
• Understand EY and its service lines and actively assess what the firm can deliver to serve clients
• Monitor project progress, manage risks, and effectively communicate status, issues, and priorities to key stakeholders to ensure successful outcomes.
• Review, analyze, and validate the work completed by junior team members to ensure accuracy and quality
• Adapt to projects involving model audits, validation, and development, demonstrating flexibility and domain knowledge

Qualifications, Certifications, and Education

Must-have:

• Graduate or Masters degree in a technical or quantitative discipline such as Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics or equivalent with a minimum of 6 years of relevant experience
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving expertise
• Solid foundation in statistics and econometrics.
• In-depth knowledge of Credit risk model development, validation, audit and/or implementation of the banking book portfolio
• Solid understanding of Risk analytics methodologies.
• Advanced technical skills, with proficiency in Python, SAS, SQL, R, and Excel.
• Excellent Oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Strong documentation skills, with the ability to quickly grasp complex concepts and present them clearly in documents or presentations.
• Strong multi-tasking skills with demonstrated ability to manage expectations and deliver high quality results under tight deadlines and minimal supervision.

Preferred:

• Professional certifications such as FRM, CFA, PRM, or SCR.
• Knowledge of regulatory modeling (BASEL, CCAR, IFRS9) is preferred
• Exposure to regulatory stress testing processes around credit risk & ICAAP
• Experience in climatic risk space preferably in the areas of stress testing /scenario designing
• Exposure to Interest Rate Risk in Banking Book (IRRBB)
• Experience in data/business intelligence (BI) reporting.
• Familiarity with machine learning models and their practical applications.
• Prior project management experience
• Willingness to travel for client engagement