Credit Risk / Market Risk Support Analyst

Curach Consulting is a leading Business and Technology consultancy. We work with a wide range of clients across various industry sectors to help deliver complex business and IT projects.

We are currently seeking to recruit an experienced Credit Risk / Market Risk Support Analyst for a contract role. This is a 6 month contract role with a strong likelihood of extension. The role will be based on site at our client’s South Dublin premises.

This is a client-facing role, working closely with Credit Risk or Market Risk users in a busy and stimulating environment. The successful candidate will be a well-rounded Support person and will join an existing Credit Risk/Market Risk Support team and act as a contact point for all Line of Business technology issues within the Credit Risk and Market Risk arena of a leading global financial institution.

The role will provide local analysis and support of tactical applications and solutions, drive technical excellence for the growing regional business, and coordinate with global technology initiatives to deliver a class-leading service to your business partners
The candidate will be responsible for a suite of global applications.

This role is well suited to a strong support candidate with a keen interest in investment banking. The successful candidate will be working on a number of high profile applications in a rapidly expanding area.

Key Responsibilities:
• Act as a liaison between global business partners (Front, Middle, Back Office and Finance), and technology teams
• Facilitate effective communications across all levels of the business
• Understand the Market or Credit Risk support process to provide assistance in day to day role when required
• Identify and prioritize key deliverables and critical path efforts to a project
• Ability to partner with other areas within the team and technology groups outside of the Market Risk / Credit Risk Technology teams

Mandatory Skills & Experience:
• Detailed knowledge & experience of Relational Databases (e.g. SQL Server)
• Solid Microsoft Office automation / VBA (for Market Risk role)
• Autosys batch scheduling, or any type of batch monitoring tool
• Experience as either a production support or as a member of a support team within the financial industry
• Credit Risk/Market Risk knowledge & experience
• Experience in Java/JavaScript
• Strong Organizational skills
• Degree in any discipline – preferably Technology / Computer Science
• Experience interacting with business users
• Experience in Banking/Finance businesses a plus

Desirable Skills:
• Linux/Unix server experience, shell scripting (e.g. Perl, Ruby), command line interface
• Database tuning/schema design

This role will be based onsite with one of our banking clients in South Dublin.

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Please note: We do not require the assistance of recruitment agencies at this time