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Santander

Global retail and commercial banking group

Espec Riscos Mercado 3

Risk ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSão Paulo, State of São Paulo, BrazilNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • Relevant experience in Market Risk, Regulatory Capital, Market Risk Regulatory Capital, or related areas at financial institutions.
  • Practical experience calculating, monitoring, or analyzing market-risk RWA.
  • Solid knowledge of FRTB, preferably with experience implementing it, meeting regulatory requirements, or calculating the standardized approach.
  • Knowledge of financial products and their principal risk factors, including fixed income, interest rates, currencies, equities, commodities, and derivatives.
  • Knowledge of market sensitivities and Greeks, such as DV01/PV01, Delta, Vega, and Curvature/Gamma.
  • Ability to interpret prudential regulations and translate them into business rules, functional specifications, and calculation controls.
  • Experience with large data volumes and the ability to analytically investigate calculation results.
  • Experience interacting across Risk, Business/Treasury, Finance, and Technology teams.
  • Advanced English, particularly for reading and interpreting regulations, technical documentation, and Basel Committee materials.

Responsibilities

  • Execute, analyze, and monitor regulatory market-risk capital calculations, especially under the FRTB framework.
  • Implement and evolve the FRTB Standardised Approach (SA) and corresponding Brazilian regulations.
  • Understand and analyze calculation components, especially the Sensitivities-Based Method (SBM), Default Risk Charge (DRC), and Residual Risk Add-On (RRAO).
  • Analyze Delta, Vega, and Curvature calculations, including risk factors, buckets, risk weights, correlations, aggregations, and regulatory scenarios under the framework.
  • Analyze the risk classes covered by FRTB, including GIRR, CSR, Equity, Commodity, and FX.
  • Assess the regulatory classification and treatment of financial instruments and market exposures.
  • Analyze regulatory capital variations and identify key drivers of RWA and capital consumption by portfolio, product, risk factor, and business unit.
  • Perform impact analyses, simulations, and sensitivity studies related to FRTB to support decision-making and capital planning.
  • Reconcile and control positions, sensitivities, risk factors, market data, and results used in capital calculations.
  • Investigate differences, exceptions, and calculation inconsistencies, conduct root-cause analysis, and track their resolution.
  • Participate in specifying functional requirements and business rules for regulatory capital systems and calculation engines.
  • Support functional testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), parallel calculations, and validations needed to implement the new framework.
  • Build controls and indicators to ensure completeness, accuracy, traceability, and consistency of regulatory data and calculations.
  • Interpret regulations from the Central Bank of Brazil, CMN, and Basel Committee, assessing their impacts on market-risk methodologies, processes, and systems.
  • Support preparation of technical and executive materials on capital developments, regulatory impacts, key exposures, and FRTB results.
  • Work with Trading/Treasury, Finance, Capital, Regulatory Reporting, Models, Technology, and Data teams, linking regulatory requirements to their practical implementation.
  • Support audits, independent validation, and other governance processes related to regulatory market-risk capital.

Desired Qualifications

  • FRM (Financial Risk Manager) or CFA certification, or specialized coursework in Basel III, FRTB, Market Risk, or Regulatory Capital.
  • Spanish language proficiency.

About the Company

Santander

Global retail and commercial banking group

Santander is a global bank focusing on retail and commercial banking in Europe and the Americas, serving individuals and SMEs with regional franchises and a broad consumer finance arm, plus a Corporate & Investment Banking division for multinational clients. It uses its Gravity cloud platform to migrate core banking and rapidly deploy digital services such as Openbank across markets, combining fintech-style agility with a bank's balance sheet. The bank differentiates itself by marrying a large retail footprint with global CIB capabilities under the One Santander verticals model to boost efficiency and cross-border revenue. Its goals include improving returns on tangible equity and financing the green economy through sustainable finance and renewable energy projects.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Boadilla del Monte, Spain
Founded
1902

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