Post of duty: Washington, DC The IDB Group is a community of diverse, versatile, and passionate people who come together on a journey to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our people find purpose and do what they love in an inclusive, collaborative, agile, and rewarding environment. About this position The Office of Risk Management (RMG) at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is looking for a dynamic and innovative derivatives risk management consultant who will help us chan... more details
Post of duty: Washington, DC
The IDB Group is a community of diverse, versatile, and passionate people who come together on a journey to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our people find purpose and do what they love in an inclusive, collaborative, agile, and rewarding environment.
About this position
The Office of Risk Management (RMG) at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is looking for a dynamic and innovative derivatives risk management consultant who will help us change people lives in Latin America and the Caribbean implement a number of initiatives and tasks in its Treasury Risk Management (RMT) Unit. These activities are consistent with RMG’s goals to further strengthen the framework for analyzing, measuring, and managing risks in the Bank's Treasury portfolios.
What you’ll do
Working in coordination with other RMT and Bank staff, the candidate will implement a number of initiatives and functions including portfolio stress testing and risk measurement, swap valuation and collateral management, portfolio risk monitoring and reporting, and negotiation of ISDA Master Agreements.
- Leverage use of the Bank’s systems to produce daily derivative risk measures and reports; assist in daily swap valuation and collateral management to ensure accurate and efficient operations.
- Collaborate with RMT staff to evaluate and monitor risks associated with the derivative portfolio, employing relevant metrics, scenario analysis, and stress testing tools.
- Support RMT staff in negotiating new ISDA Master Agreements, GRMAs, and amendments to existing agreements and analyzing the implications of new regulatory developments in collaboration with Treasury and Legal teams.
- Monitor and summarize relevant market and portfolio developments, presenting findings at weekly capital market meetings.
- Test and evaluate alternative risk measures and platforms.
- Perform research and data analysis to support the revision of risk guidelines and limits, as well as ISDA/CSA collateral and risk mitigation provisions.
- Identify opportunities for process automation and optimization in reporting, ensuring efficiency and accuracy.
- Coordinate with multiple units in Finance and RMG on the timely collection and validation of standard and ad-hoc additional data and information needed for the Risk Management Report document, PowerPoint presentation and related Dashboard.
- Contribute to the completion of various components of the Risk Management Report, working with other RMG officers in the generation of interim and final documents, and support the development of Power BI-based tables and charts.
- Implement and monitor processes for compliance monitoring on risk policies, guidelines and limits designed to control market, credit, and liquidity risks in the Bank’s treasury portfolios, disseminating notifications of breaches as appropriate.
- Ensure timely update of over 1,000 issuers, counterparties and related entities in the system, reflecting current eligibility status and proper set-up of newly approved issuers (e.g., hierarchies and limit structure) for compliance monitoring.
- Undertake additional analyses, reviews, and reports as assigned by the Chief, Treasury Risk Management Unit, RMG/RMT, or the Derivatives Risk Manager, RMG/RMT.
What you'll need
- Education: Strong quantitative background. Master’s degree in finance, Business Administration, Economics, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related discipline preferred.
- Experience: At least 5 years of experience in finance, capital markets, risk management and/or portfolio management with exposure to derivatives a plus. Outstanding analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to add value to the risk management process through creative thinking and in-depth and disciplined analyses. Strong communication skills, including the ability to draft well-written, coherent analyses and documents for senior management. Coding skills: Mid-level knowledge in VBA, Python (primarily pandas) and SQL, this will be tested.
- Languages: Proficiency in English.
Key skills
- Learn continuously.
- Collaborate and share knowledge.
- Communicate and influence.
- Innovate and try new things.
- Attention to details.
Requirements
- Citizenship: You are a citizen of one of our 48-member countries.
- Consanguinity: You have no family members (up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB, IDB Invest, or IDB Lab.
Type of contract and duration
- Type of contract: International Consultant Full-Time.
- Length of contract: 19 months.
- Work Location: On site.
What we offer
The IDB group provides benefits that respond to the different needs and moments of an employee’s life. These benefits include:
- A competitive compensation packages.
- Leaves and vacations: 2 days per month of contract gender- neutral parental leave.
- Health Insurance: the IDB Group provides a monthly allowance for the purchase of health insurance.
- Savings plan: ???????The IDB Group cares about your future, depending on the length of the contract, you will receive a monthly savings plan allowance.
- Hybrid and flexible work schedules.
- Development support: We offer learning opportunities to boost your professional profile such as seminars, 1:1 professional counseling, and much more.
- Health and wellbeing: Access to our Health Services Center which provides preventive care and health education for all employees.
- Other perks: Lactation Room, Daycare Center, Gym, Bike Racks, Parking, and others.
Our culture
At the IDB Group we work so everyone brings their best and authentic selves to work, willing to try new approaches without fear, and where they are accountable and rewarded for their actions.
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) are at the center of our organization. We celebrate all dimensions of diversity and encourage women, LGBTQ people, persons with disabilities, Afro-descendants, and Indigenous people to apply.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job interview process. If you are a qualified candidate with a disability, please e-mail us at diversity@iadb.org to request reasonable accommodation to complete this application.
Our Human Resources Team reviews carefully every application.
About the IDB Group
The IDB Group, composed of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), IDB Invest, and the IDB Lab offers flexible financing solutions to its member countries to finance economic and social development through lending and grants to public and private entities in Latin America and the Caribbean.
About IDB
We work to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Through financial and technical support for countries working to reduce poverty and inequality, we help improve health and education and advance infrastructure. Our aim is to achieve development in a sustainable, climate-friendly way. With a history dating back to 1959, today we are the leading source of development financing for Latin America and the Caribbean. We provide loans, grants, and technical assistance; and we conduct extensive research. We maintain a strong commitment to achieving measurable results and the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and accountability.
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