Position Description

As part of its Business expansion, CLSA Japan is seeking to hire a Risk Manager to assist with monitoring and reporting of miscellaneous risk indicators. The Risk Manager is expected to work closely with internal parties such as Tokyo Management (Country Head & COO), Front-Office (Sales & Trading), Compliance, Finance, Operations as well as our Central Risk Management Team located in Hong Kong & Beijing. External parties include Japanese end-clients or regulatory bodies for ad-hoc queries and reporting or during periodic inspections.

Key Areas of Responsibilities

• Perform regular monitoring for early risk identification of market/credit/liquidity/operational risk.
• Prepare regular reports for market/credit/liquidity/operational risk monitoring and communicate with relevant parties for risk issues.
• Prepare limit review files for manager’s approval.
• Perform ongoing data management activities.
• Perform ad-hoc data extraction, analysis and reporting for risk management covering Market/Credit/Liquidity/Operational risk.
• Handle market/credit/liquidity/operational risk related regulatory or internal reporting.
• Work on risk related system and report enhancement projects.
• Support all Asia region risk work with other risk teams together if any.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant risk management experience in Brokerage / Financial institution.
• Bachelor Degree holder in Finance, Business or related discipline.
• Possess good knowledge in financial products, such as Equity (Cash and Margin Finance), Bonds, Derivatives, Future products, etc…
• Good computer application skills including SQL, VBA, C#, MS Excel and Bloomberg is preferable.
• Good communication skill to liaise with stakeholders.
• A good team player, quick learner, self-motivated with strong sense of responsibility and discipline.
• Good command of written and spoken English and Japanese, understanding Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese) is an advantage.