Mizuho Financial

Director - Market Risk, Spread Products

Mizuho Financial$160K — $235K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in market risk management required.
  • Direct experience with Spread Products market risk, including 5+ years covering Agency Securitized Products.
  • Master's degree in a quantitative field preferred.
  • Excellent quantitative, analytical and communication skills.
  • Familiarity with Bloomberg, Intex, PolyPaths, Murex, SQL, Python, and AI tools is a plus.
  • Proficiency with FRTB is a plus.
  • Ability to work under pressure with tight deadlines in a trading desk environment.

Responsibilities

  • Leading Market Risk monitoring, analysis, and reporting.
  • Strengthening risk controls and improving business policies and methodologies.
  • Partnering with Trading Heads for both Agency and Non-Agency Securitized Products to ensure balanced risk taking.
  • Interpreting market surveillance data for senior management, regulators, and stakeholders.
  • Leading internal projects to enhance market risk systems for existing and new products.

Benefits

  • Generous employee benefits package including Medical, Dental, and 401K plans.
  • Eligibility for a discretionary bonus based on performance and contributions.
  • Hybrid working program offering remote work opportunities based on role and department needs.
Full Job Description
Summary

Risk Manager responsible for supervising Market Risk for Spread Products areas. Key tasks include: shaping limits framework and managing desks' daily compliance with the limits, interpretation and challenge of risk trends (VaR, risk sensitivities, stress testing, etc.); decision making around trade reviews, risk assessments and pre-approvals; monitoring of market conditions, interpretation of trading patterns and exposure trends; leading deployment of new products, reviewing policies and methodologies, improving reports, models and risk analytics across covered products.

Responsibilities
  • Leading Market Risk monitoring, analysis, and reporting.
  • Strengthening risk controls, improving business policies, procedures and methodologies, challenging trading mandates.
  • Partnering with Trading Heads for Agency (MBS/TBAs/CMOs) and Non-Agency Securitized Products (ABS/CLO/RMBS/CMBS), Corporate Credit (IG/HY/EM Bonds/Lev Loans/CDS/CDX) and Municipal Products to ensure well balanced risk taking to meet business goals.
  • Interpreting in-depth market surveillance in the context of portfolio dynamics for senior management, regulators, and other stakeholders.
  • Leading internal projects to ensure market risk systems improvements in support of existing and new products.


Qualifications
  • 10+ years of experience in market risk management required.
  • Direct experience with Spread Products market risk is required, including 5+ years covering Agency Securitized Products.
  • Master's degree in a quantitative field is preferred.
  • Excellent quantitative, analytical and communication skills.
  • Bloomberg, Intex, PolyPaths, Murex, SQL, Python, AI tools proficiency is a plus.
  • Proficiency with FRTB is a plus.
  • Ability to work under pressure with tight deadlines in a trading desk environment.


The expected base salary ranges from $160,000 - $235,000. Salary offers are based on a wide range of factors including relevant skills, training, experience, education, and, where applicable, certifications and licenses obtained. Market and organizational factors are also considered. In addition to salary and a generous employee benefits package, including Medical, Dental and 401K plans, successful candidates are also eligible to receive a discretionary bonus.

Other requirements

Mizuho has in place a hybrid working program, with varying opportunities for remote work depending on the nature of the role, needs of your department, as well as local laws and regulatory obligations. Roles in some of our departments have greater in-office requirements that will be communicated to you as part of the recruitment process

About Mizuho Financial

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is a Japanese banking holding company headquartered in the ?temachi district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The name "mizuho" literally means "abundant rice" in Japanese. It holds assets in excess of $1.8 trillion US dollars through its control of Mizuho Bank, Mizuho Corporate Bank, and other operating subsidiaries. The company's combined holdings form the second largest financial services group in Japan. Its banking businesses rank third in Japan after Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group. It is the 15th largest banking institution in the world by total assets as of December 2018.
Learn more about Mizuho Financial
Size
54,492 employees
Market Cap
$35 billion
Industry
Net Income
$84.4 billion
5 Year Trend
-0.6%
NASDAQ

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