What you’ll be doing primarily:

📍Linking the strategic objectives of the company to the way financial risks are understood and managed in support of these objectives. 📍Assessing the adequacy of financial risk modeling outputs to inform business decisions. 📍Developing and maintaining effective relationships needed to support these activities. 📍Ensuring the framework for financial risk remains appropriate and takes into consideration internal requirements and wider industry developments. 📍Risk Mitigation: Collaborating with business units to develop and implement risk mitigation strategies and action plans to minimise potential losses. 📍Risk Monitoring: Implement and maintain risk monitoring tools and systems to track key risk indicators (KRIs) and provide regular reports to senior management. 📍Risk Modeling: Develop and maintain risk models, stress tests, and scenario analysis to evaluate the impact of various market conditions and economic scenarios on the organization's portfolio. 📍Counterparty credit checking: Evaluating institutional clients for creditworthiness and defining limits for credit risk 📍Liaising with relevant first line functions to support, guide and challenge the identification, management and monitoring of financial risk including (but not limited to): 📍Market risk 📍Liquidity risk 📍Credit risk 📍Operational Risk that can be effectively priced (fraud or back office error)

Required qualifications:

📍Must be able to engage with business colleagues to ensure they understand where these risks arise in 📍Uphold's business and help them deliver: 📍Policies 📍Controls 📍Risk appetite tolerance 📍Transparency and good governance 📍Software requirements