Senior Associate Market and Credit Risk - Mandarin Speaking

About the role

Financial Markets Middle Office cooperates with Head Office to conduct market, credit, operational risk monitoring and reporting of London Trading Centre and Global Financial Markets (GFM) in Bank of China (BOC) London Branch and BOC (UK) Limited, and other overseas branches to meet the relevant policies and requirements in respect of risk framework establishment and implementation. As a Senior Associate Market and Credit Risk - Mandarin Speaking, you will be responsible for the monitoring and reporting of market risk and counter party credit risk of London Trading Centre, BOC London Branch, BOC (UK) Limited and other European and African entities.

This is a full time permanent position.

• Carry out risk control activities on market risk and counter party credit risk pertaining to the financial markets business of London Trading Centre, London Branch and other European entities in accordance with regulatory requirements and internal policies and procedures
• Support with enhancement and update of policies and procedures with regards to counter party credit risk and market risk controls as well as other related controls or operations
• Issue risk opinions on significant or emerging risks to the business units
• Investigate and approve or reject hard-blocked transactions in the system
• Review and approve IT system user applications and set up system parameters
• Assist with new staff training
• Cover other team members when required

• Degree educated in Banking, Finance, Accounting, or other relevant subject
• Professional qualification in financial markets (e.g. CFA, FRM) is preferred
• Experience in trading, treasury, risk management, clearing and settlement or other areas of financial markets within Financial Services, ideally Banking, is preferred
• Understanding of financial markets products
• Excellent English and Mandarin communication skills
• Excellent MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) skills
• Proficiency in VBA is preferred
• Team player
• Attention to detail

Having a presence in the UK for more than 90 years, Bank of China London Branch has been providing an excellent financial service to the market and maintain its competitive edge as an international bank operated in the UK. It has employees in over 33 countries, and it is one of the most internationalised overseas branch in the Bank of China Group.

The Bank values the diversity of its employees and aims to create an inclusive environment where everyone can speak up and enjoy the equal opportunities to grow both personally and professionally.

We strive to offer you a continuous learning environment and we will invest in your development. We provide personalised and varied learning tools to support your growth and career through:

• access to the best in class qualifications from leading professional bodies such as the Professional Bankers Certificate and Green & Sustainable Finance Certificate from the Chartered Banker Institute
• 24/7 on-demand access to over 600 e-tutorials to build and refresh core and advanced banking knowledge
• regular pan-bank stay connected sessions to keep in touch with what is going on across the bank and build your network
• exploring your unique and collective strengths and development areas to become the best version of yourself using the globally renowned Insights personality profile
• developing our People Managers to help coach and guide you towards success, through our 9-month People Manager Development Programme

• encouraging a "growth" personal mindset and promoting continuous professional development (CPD) through annual events such as Learning at Work Week
• embracing change in a fast-moving industry and encouraging a forward-looking perspective on career development to "future-proof" your career
• promoting cross cultural intelligence and to seek out diverse and inclusive perspectives on challenges faced and their solutions

We provide an attractive and comprehensive benefits package, offering flexibility that can enable you to select the benefits that suits your needs, including:

• Private
• Healthcare
• Pension
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Complimentary
• Lunch
• Cycle to
• work scheme
• Retail
• Di…