Senior Financial Risk Manager (m/f/div) at Solaris

Solaris is a tech company with a full German banking license. Our Banking-as-a-Service platform enables businesses to offer their own financial products. With our straightforward APIs, our partners can access and integrate a wide range of solutions such as digital banking, payments, cards, identification and lending services. As a market leader we are driven by bringing transformational change to the financial services industry.

We love what we do and we love our team. We are 700+ people from over 60 nationalities - a unique blend of techies, fintech enthusiasts, bankers and entrepreneurs from various industries. Our routines are built around genuinely valuing and exchanging different perspectives as well as actively sharing knowledge as we drive our business as a team. We believe and invest in personal growth.

About Your Future Team

You will be member of the Financial Risk Management & Risk Controlling Team (FRM&RC). FRM&RC is a small team that is entrusted to manage and control the overall risk positions of the bank and group level. This entails amongst others managing counterparty risks and market risk including the interest risk position. Further, the team is responsible for risk for risk controlling activities related ICAAP, ILAAP and others.

Your Role

• Responsible for ICAAP Processes and Risk Controlling Processes (identify, assess, mitigate, monitor, communicate risks).
• Maintain and develop methods related Financial Risk Management including Counterparty Risk, Interest Risk, Liquidity Risk and others.
• Calculation of risk exposures, Limit Monitoring, calculation of risk bearing capacity for the bank and on Group level.
• Improve our Risk Management Systems, data systems and used models.
• Prepare risk reporting and present results.
• Realize Stress Test for different risk categories including overall stress test calculations.
• Realize validation of used methods and models or review validation reports on different risk categories.
• Participate in new product development or implementation of new regulatory requirements related risk management and risk controlling requirements.

We’d love to see

Depending on your level of experience, your responsibilities and scope of role will range. We don’t care much about fancy titles, but rather about real personal and professional development, as laid out in our learning framework. Let’s figure together out how you can contribute to our team.

• University degree with focus on business administration, Economics, Finance, Accounting, mathematics related field, or Bank Academy.
• 7+ years of experience in financial risk management, finance, controlling or treasury related fields.
• Knowledge about finance, accounting, risk management, math or statistics.
• Knowledge of statistical software like R, matlab, python (in case) is helpful.
• Knowledge about actual European and German banking regulation related risk management.
• Language: English, German.
• Analytical.
• You are fun to work with and you actively contribute to our company culture

What We Offer

• We have a "remote-friendly" working arrangement
• Home office budget
• Health and development budget
• Transparent framework to support your career goals
• Competitive salary

While job ads usually paint an ideal picture of a candidate, studies show that most applicants meet an average of 60% of the criteria. Unfortunately, many promising candidates tend to apply only if they meet all the criteria. So if you think you have what it takes, but don’t necessarily meet every single item in the job description, please contact us anyway. We’d love to talk with you and find out if you might be a good fit for us.

At Solaris, we are committed to nurturing an inclusive environment, where all Solarians feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a diverse workforce that reflects the diversity of our communities. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of color, ethnicity, religion, sex, origin, disability, marital status, citizenship, or gender identity. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. Information on data processing:

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