Senior Risk MGT Specialist; Portfolio

Business Unit: President Complex

Department: Risk Management

Division/Section: Portfolio Risk and Reporting

Country: Saudi Arabia

Location: IsDB, HQ Jeddah

Job Grade: E3

Contract Type: Fixed Term

Closing Date: 18-Nov-2026

In collaboration with the Manager and Lead, the role is responsible for formulating and quantifying the Bank risk appetite metrics, measuring the Bank risk profile, and recommending any necessary corrective actions. The role contributes to the development of enterprise-wide quantitative risk measurement models, methodologies, and techniques such as FAS 30/IFRS 9 risk modelling, economic capital, risk rating models. The role must provide an independent high-level risk oversight and reporting of the Bank’s financial and non-financial risk profile.

The role provides technical guidance to the Portfolio Risk and Reporting team for the undertaking of credit risk management activities at the Bank focusing on developing and implementing appropriate portfolio risk management framework and guidelines, credit risk modelling and risk analytics covering all aspects of Bank-wide risk management. The role also provides technical guidance to the junior team members.

Portfolio Risk Management and Reporting:

• Prepare the Bank-wide Risk Report covering risk governance, assessment of credit, market and operational risks, and other relevant reports especially analysis, recommendations, and write-up.
• Contribute to the formulation of Bank-wide risk appetite framework (RAF) and ensuring RAF is cascaded down to Bank’s day-to-day business via Target Market and Risk Acceptance Criteria (TM/RAC).
• Review, update and maintain the Bank-wide Exposure Management Framework covering financing operations, treasury and investment activities.
• Develop, review, and maintain an Economic Capital Adequacy Framework and Model and its related guidelines.
• Review, update, and maintain risk models and parameters such as Probability of Default (PD), Loss-Given-Default (LGD), Exposure-at-Default (EAD), correlations, etc.
• Undertake the development, review, and maintenance of IFRS 9 Expected Credit Loss (ECL) methodologies and models and determine the level of impairment and provisions based on IFRS9 for the Bank-wide portfolio.
• Develop and maintain Bank-wide risk adjusted return on capital (RAROC) framework and analytics.
• Develop and implement a stress-testing framework for the Bank’s economic capital adequacy model that enables proactive assessment of the potential impacts of changing market and financial conditions on financial sustainability in the short, medium and longer term and its impact on the credit rating of the Bank.
• Prepare portfolio data for internal and external processing, e.g. submission to credit data pooling consortium of MDBs and International FIs on a periodic basis.
• Monitor the risk profile of sovereign and non-sovereign operations financing portfolio, including asset credit quality and concentration levels, to ensure that risk profile is within the established limits.
• Review and provide feedback on new policies and guidelines drafted by the Finance Complex and Operations-related complexes, particularly relating to credit risk.
• Contribute to the implementation of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) system, tools and framework.
• Collaborate with the IMDT for the development of information systems that produce reports required for its independent risk reporting to President and BED Committees.
• Assist in the coordination efforts with concerned Departments on all matters relating to ratings of IsDB or instruments for IsDB and along with other Divisions of Risk Management Department including sukuk issuances and providing risk management input for annual reports.
• Support and contribute…