Market Risk Trainee (One Year Contract)

Summary

A Trainee role to support the diverse Market Activity Monitoring APAC (MAM) team in the Market Risk department, spread across Asian entities.

The incumbent will be exposed to the market risk topics in the global markets, mainly on Asian rates and FX. The incumbent will have the opportunity to interacts with the other key internal stakeholders in the Bank both Front Office (trading/sales) and Support Function (Risk, Middle/Back Office, IT and Finance).

The incumbent will also have the opportunity to be assigned with the different responsibilities within the Market Risk functions, among others including market risk and P&L monitoring, analysis and reporting, independent price verification, data analytics and referential management, as well as process engineering.

The ideal candidate should complete their graduation requirements by December 2025 and is available to start the position from January 2026.Trainee program is one year to begin with and possible for extension up to 2 years in total, subject to performance and business needs.

Key Responsibilities

• P&L and market risk exposures monitoring - produces and analyses P&L and market risk exposures in global market activities. Liaises with key stakeholders to review the metrics, including escalation on anomalies.
• Key performance indicators and data quality monitoring - ensures integrity, accuracy and consistency of P&L and risk data reported in market risk systems.
• Metrics consolidation and data analysis - consolidates risk and P&L data for Asia, including the offshore delocalised and global books. Assists the market risk team in data preparation for ad hoc analysis, audit or regulatory inquiries.
• Project / change management - involves in the continuous efforts to revamp / simplify the current market risk processes.

In accordance with the Mandatory Reference Checking (MRC) Scheme implemented by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), a successful candidate for an In-Scope Position who has held a position with an In-Scope Institution in the past 7 years will be subject to a mandatory reference check. For more details, please refer to

Personal data provided by job applicants will be used strictly in accordance with the employer's personal data policies, a copy of which will be provided immediately upon request.

La version franaise est disponible sur demande votre RH locale

Bachelor / Master Degree in Risk Management, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics or Finance with less than 12 months full time experiences

Prior experience in product control or market risk function would be an advantage

• A self-starter with passion on new technologies, a strong analytical skill and ability to get things done autonomously in a timely manner
• Good understanding of Asian fixed income markets and the mechanics of related market products, especially on risks and valuation

• Proficient in spreadsheet operation as well as having working knowledge in programming, data extraction and transformation using SQL, VBA, Python etc. Having experience in the data visualisation packages (Tableau, Power BI) would be an advantage.