Graduate Trainee - Risk Management -Mathematics- Global Markets Risk

The Programme

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Program Framework: 
 
The Global Markets Risk Graduate Trainee will gain concentrated exposure in either one of the Global Markets Risk departments (Risk Control / Credit Risk), along with coaching and support from line managers.  
 
You will be equipped with knowledge, skills and hands-on experience in the job and function. 
 
Global Market Risk - Risk Control;

• Understanding financial product nuances, risk-taking activities in Global Markets, and daily and intraday market risk limits and controls is essential for HLB Group, HLBB, HLISB, and HLBLIB. 
  Regularly monitoring and reporting risk exposure for HLB Group, HLBB, HLISB, and HLBLIB. 
• Understanding of technical risk metrics and using Value-at-Risk (VaR) for trading activities and participating in regular risk factors and market data review. 
• Understand how banks measure loss vulnerability in global markets through stress tests, reviews risk methodologies, and back tests on VaR models to assess forecasting accuracy.

Global Market Risk - Credit Risk:

• Understanding financial product nuances, risk-taking activities in Global Markets, daily and intraday credit counterparty risk limits, and risk investigation and analytics for HLB Group, HLBB, HLISB, and HLBLIB. 
• Regularly monitoring and reporting risk exposure for HLB Group, HLBB, HLISB, and HLBLIB, understanding risk metrics, and reviewing counterparty credit quality. 
• Participate in credit counterparty risk stress tests, review market risk methodologies, and communicate with stakeholders to assess credit counterparty risk before onboarding and establishing limits.

Required Skills and Abilities

• Fresh graduates with a CGPA of 3.2 OR 2nd Class Upper with majors in Finance, Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Banking or Statistics.  
• Candidates with less than 1-year full-time working experience. 

About Hong Leong Bank: 
 
We are a leading financial institution in Malaysia backed by a century of entrepreneurial heritage.  
 
Providing comprehensive financial services guided by a Digital-at-the-Core ethos has earned us industry recognition and accolades for our innovative approach to making banking simpler and more effortless for our customers. Our digital and physical offerings span across a vast nationwide network in Malaysia, strengthened with an expanding regional presence in Singapore, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, and China.  
 
We seek to strike a balance between diversity, inclusion and merit to achieve our mission of infusing diversity in thinking and skillsets into our organization. Candidates are assessed based on merit and potential, in line with our mission to attract and recruit the best talent available. Expanding on our “Digital at the Core” ethos, we are progressively digitizing the employee journey and experience to provide a strong foundation for our people to drive life-long learning, achieve their career aspirations and grow talent from within our organization. 
 
Realize your full potential at Hong Leong Bank by applying now.