Financial Risk Officer

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**Who we are**:
Deutsche Börse Group is one of the world’s leading exchange organisations and an innovative market infrastructure provider. With our products and services, we ensure that capital markets are fair, transparent, reliable, and stable. Together, we develop state-of-the-art IT solutions and offer our IT systems all over the world.

Within the Deutsche Börse Group, Clearstream is an international central securities depository (ICSD). It provides post-trade infrastructure and securities services for the international market and 59 domestic markets worldwide, with customers in 110 countries.

Luxembourg

**Your career at Deutsche Börse Group**:
**Your area of work**:
Clearstream Risk Management is responsible for the assessment, quantification and reporting of financial and operational risks of the Clearstream group. In this role you will be part of the Financial Risk team. The unit inter alia assumes responsibility for managing credit, market and liquidity risk of Clearstream.

**Your responsibilities**:

- Challenge, maintain, and enhance the risk framework for existing financial risk drivers (credit, market and liquidity), which includes the development of framework for both adequate stress scenarios and rigorous back tests to continuously evaluate a model's performance
- Design and implement new models for financial risk drivers due to the continuous product and service extensions of Clearstream entities in a sandbox environment using Python as language of choice.
- Your IT affinity is required for supportive advisory and testing activities during the final productive IT implementation carried out by a dedicated IT developer team.
- By your understanding of working in the risk department of a key player in the financial sector and of Deutsche Börse Group’s specific role as a critical but trusted market infrastructure provider, you always consider the relevant regulatory aspects to confirm this status and expectation by both market participants and supervisory bodies.
- You like to work in a structured and science-based way, where written documentation of analyses, modeling approaches and efficient program code is a key tool to collect arguments for methodologic correctness and shows your attention to detail. You fully understand your models with both its advantages and limitations, which enables you to explain related complexities in a concise way to decision-makers and persuade at all levels of sophistication.
- A level of self-responsibility is required, nevertheless you will work in a team that aims for an open-minded, critical thinking and communicative working environment in which inclusion, idea sharing, and mutual support are necessary to master the ever-growing challenges. Following this way enables growing further.

**Your profile**:

- University degree in a financial or quantitative discipline
- Relevant work experience, preferably in risk/pricing model development or validation
- Good understanding of financial markets and financial products as well as the regulatory landscape (MaRisk, ICAAP, ILAAP, CSDR) and its interrelation (ICAAP vs. CRR vs. CSDR)
- Efficient team player with a high degree of organizational self-reliance and good communication skills
- Adept in MS Office usage, a level of programming and database experience would be useful (e.g. Python, SQL)
- Proficiency in written and spoken English

**Why Deutsche Börse Group?**:
**Mobility**:
We enable you to move freely with our job tickets, job (e-)bikes and free parking opportunities.

**Work environment**:
Collaboration, communication, or deep focus - in our modern office buildings you will find the perfect work environment. Free drinks and food and meal allowances included.

**Health and wellbeing**:
We care for your health and wellbeing and besides various health promotion measures we offer you a group accident insurance and additional insurance offers at discounted rates.

**Financial stability**:
We provide financial stability by offering attractive salaries, company pension schemes, participation in our Group Share Plan, as well as bonuses, subsidies and discounts.

**Hybrid work**:
Collaborate and exchange on-site or work remotely several days a week in line with business needs and local regulations. Our hybrid working model combines the best of both worlds.

**Flexible working hours**:
We want your job to fit your life situation and offer flexible working time models, childcare allowance, or the possibility to study alongside your job.

**Internationality**:
Our market infrastructures are globally connected. Working with us