Associate Director Risk
UBS AG
Total years of experience :9 years, 6 Months
- Engaging with and actively supporting management from global business division front office and control function teams to identify and evaluate key financial risks, covering Investment Banking, Global Wealth Management, Asset Management, and Personal & Corporate Banking across all UBS global entities.
- Partnering with senior business leaders to capture key risks and identify potential emerging risks, and presenting risk profile to the executive management.
- Developing an enterprise-wide view of risk across all risk types, evaluating cross-divisional exposures, common risk drivers, macroeconomic considerations, and designing remediation plans.
- Engaged in the integration of risk management workstreams of the Credit Suisse acquisition.
- Supporting Executive Management in regulatory requirements and engagement, e.g., FED, FINMA, ESE, and PRA.
- Protecting the capital strength of the bank by working with modeling and stress-testing teams to confirm that key risks are adequately simulated under a range of adverse scenarios.
- Developed Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Framework and conducted gap analysis for several clients.
- Developed Risk Appetite statements, Risk Profile and Risk Registers for various departments.
- Performed risk assessments to evaluate impacts and likelihoods for multiple processes and proposed controls to the management to help implement effective mitigation plans.
- Assessed and evaluated the control effectiveness for companies in various sectors as part of the ’Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting’ project (ICOFR) in accordance with the regulatory requirement of the QFMA and Corporate Governance guidelines.
- Developed policies and procedures for different business processes for various clients.
- Performed due diligence for custodians and analyzed financial statements and annual reports.
- Conducted portfolio level analysis, including asset allocation, FX exposure analysis and portfolio performance review.
- Assisted in providing market information to the team while coordinating with the Asset Management and Capital Market departments.
- Set the risk appetite and risk limits for the Bank.
- Assisted in preparing ICAAP report and other various reports to the Risk and ALCO Committees.
- Ensured compliance with Basel II & III requirements and other regulatory requirements related to liquidity risk, (LCR, NFSR, maturity gaps) and adequacy ratio covering credit, market and operational risk.
- Reviewed equity, derivatives, fixed income and mutual fund trades.
- Performed IFRS9 report analysis and analyzed its effects on the Bank’s financial statements.
- Analyzed suspicious Insider Trading transactions.
- Followed up on margin call for clients to close any margin deficit due to Market fluctuations
- Identified, analyzed and managed operational risks in business units.
- Monitored and verified FX operations, Futures, Options, CFDs, and Fixed Income.
- Implemented strategies to prevent, eliminate and mitigate operational risks.
- Approved outward transfers to clients through the Swift system network.