Market Risk Project Manager

Job Description

Natixis Corporate & Investment Banking is a leading global financial institution that provides advisory, investment banking, financing, corporate banking and capital markets services to corporations, financial institutions, financial sponsors and sovereign and supranational organizations worldwide.

Our teams of experts in close to 30 countries advise clients on their strategic development, helping them to grow and transform their businesses, and maximize their positive impact. Natixis CIB is committed to aligning its financing portfolio with a carbon neutrality path by 2050 while helping its clients reduce the environmental impact of their business.

As part of Groupe BPCE, the second largest banking group in France through the Banque Populaire and Caisse d’Epargne retail networks, Natixis CIB benefits from the Group’s financial strength and solid financial ratings (Standard & Poor's: A+, Moody's: A1, Fitch Ratings: A+, R&I: A+).

You join the Risk Modelling Project (RMP) team in the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) department of Natixis' Risk Division as a project manager.

The team is responsible for managing major risk projects, including credit, counterparty and market risks. It deals with regulatory issues and the improvement of risk measurement devices. The team also includes engineers who develop IT solutions to support projects and risk measures in collaboration with CIB, Finance and Risk.

Responsibilities

• Frame and organize projects in collaboration with the different teams.
• Manage and coordinate methodological and IT work.
• Lead change and introduce new processes in connection with operational teams.
• Facilitate working meetings and committees.
• Ensure the project deliverables are proofread and validated while preparing documentation packages for internal use or for the regulator.

As a project manager, you support the development of business lines by deploying risk metrics to the best modelling standards and ensuring their regulatory compliance. You also contribute to the management of projects implementing market risk measures as well as to responses to supervisor requests (example: direct questions from the JST, recurring meeting supports with the supervisor, OSI) and to carry out ad hoc scoping work on market risk issues.

You work in an international environment, within a community of experts that places excellence, impact and collective action at the heart of everything it does.

Location & Working Arrangements

This position is based in Paris with the opportunity to work from home.

Qualifications

About you: If you recognize yourself in the following description, you are made to work with us!

You have a degree and at least 10 years of experience in risk or finance positions with financial institutions or consulting firms.

• Managing major business projects, and have functional expertise on market risks.
• Regulation, and modelling topics (quantitative statistical and financial methods) and an appetite for technical topics.
• The Natixis businesses (asset management & CIB) and the IT processes of the Risk & Finance sectors.

• Curious, pragmatic and autonomous.
• Appreciated for your strength in proposing solutions in a constrained environment.
• Recognized for your ability to foster cross‑functional cooperation.

You are fluent in English with a B2 level.