GPP is a multi-award-winning UK-based financial services firm that provides execution, structured products, clearing, and custody services to broker-dealers, wealth managers, family offices, and professional traders. Clients are able to access the global financial markets via GPP's multi-asset class trading platform, which provides trade execution, clearing, and custody services.
As part of the Titan Wealth group, GPP and Titan Wealth Solutions offer a compelling alternative platform to traditional administration models through its core deliverables of scalability, efficiency and innovation. As a full end-to-end investment lifecycle services platform, we are fully compliant with CASS 6 and 7 with client assets and cash held with BNY Mellon and Barclays Bank.
Our vision is to be the leading services provider for wealth management professionals by providing leading-edge, innovative solutions. As the technology team, we are committed to achieving this vision by driving innovation and excellence in what we deliver. We require creative, objective, and forward-thinking in order to develop our strengths and minimise our weaknesses while architecting scalable solutions.
Our values are:
- Professionalism; how we treat our clients and our colleagues
- Trust; embrace innovation and adapt to change
- Innovation; dare to create and don't fear failure
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The Role
This role will sit within the risk team and report directly to the Risk Manager.
The Senior Risk Analyst will be responsible for performing various duties to aid in protecting the firm against financial losses.
These include:
- Automation of GPPs risk control spreadsheets using VBA macros & SQL (core responsibility) and development of new automated risk controls.
- Identification of workflow gaps and generation of automatic processes and reports from multiple data sources
- Working with system data to gather insights that will enhance risk management within the firm.
- Providing analysis that measures and monitors credit (client and counterparty), operational, liquidity, and market risk and working to mitigate identified risks.
- Producing and circulating of daily margin calls and coordinating solutions to resolve outstanding margin calls.
- Establishing, monitoring, and reporting on Key Risk Indicators and risk controls.
- Implementing corrective action plans to mitigate risks.
- Working closely with Risk Managers to support them in their roles.
- Applying and entrenching the GPP Risk Management Framework and Policy.
- Assessing new client credit profiles.
- Liaising with operations teams and assisting with client queries where necessary.
- Presenting to the Executive Risk Committee and participating in team and related project meetings.
- Conducting Risk and Control Self Assessments with various departments across the business
- Contributing to ad hoc projects.
- Reviewing client payment requests.
- Representing the values of GPP, displaying professional conduct, and adhering to required technical standards.
Skills and Qualifications:
- 3-5 years of experience in a Senior Risk Analyst/Data Analyst or similar role within Financial Services.
- Strong VBA and SQL skills with respect to data profiling and data discovery as well as high proficiency in MS Excel.
- An undergraduate degree is a requirement. Further qualifications such as Honours/Masters in a finance related field, or risk management designations such as FRM, IRM, or CFA would be advantageous.
- Experience with trading tools like Bloomberg and IRESS is useful.
- Presentation skills including confidence in speaking in front of a small audience and using PowerPoint
Candidates should possess the following attributes:
- A proactive nature and the ability to prioritise tasks and manage own deliveries against set delivery plans and timelines, identifying obstacles to delivery and taking appropriate action where required.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Sound decision making ability.
- The ability to communicate clearly and effectively.
- Attention to detail.
Why work for us?
- Flexible working environment with remote work as the focus, we use Workshop 17 at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town as a co-working location when face-to-face would be beneficial to the team.
- We believe in a healthy work/life balance, especially with the shift to a remote work focus. We encourage our team members to take time off, refocus, and reenergize and that a healthy separation from work can be maintained.
- We have an open, trusting, empowering, friendly and importantly informal and relaxed environment. Your ideas and experience could contribute to shaping how we work, what we work on and help us continually drive innovation and improvement.
- Competitive salary we keep up with the latest market trends and strive to pay competitively.
- Competitive holiday leave 20+ days annual leave (earn an extra day for every year worked, up to 3 extra days)
- Performance-related discretionary annual bonus.
- Retirement, Risk, and Medical-Aid contribution we will contribute to a medical aid of your choosing.
- Training budget allowance for further study or attending conferences, including paid days off to study.
The Titan Wealth Group is firmly committed to fostering an inclusive and equitable environment for everyone who works with us, regardless of their race, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, physical ability or disability, or political affiliation. We believe that having a diverse team allows us to create the best possible outcomes for our clients and team members. We strive to provide equal opportunities in all aspects of the workplace with respect to recruitment and career advancement, pay and benefits, training and development opportunities and other job-related activities.
