£60K BENS BONUS EXCITING OPPORTUNTIY - Rapidly expanding City based Trading House is seeking to strengthen their Risk Department with the addition of a Risk Analyst to focus primarily on assisting the Credit Default Swap risk team, but also commodities and derivative products. The successful candidate will be responsible for monitoring various Risk exposures and providing general support to the Risk team. Candidate must have strong IT skills (Excel, VBA, SQL) to be considered for this position and must have worked in a similar risk function at financial services company. Duties to include: - Maintaining and updating databases across varying platforms including Risk exposure monitoring and Risk reporting - Assist the development of products to integrate new features (including VaR, SPAN) into existing risk systems - Risk Analysis to include: liquidity, volatility and correlation - Ad-hoc queries and routine risk reporting The successful candidate will have achieved a minimum of a 2:1 degree in a numerate discipline (Maths, Engineering etc.) with the desire to continue developing their career in Risk - Candidates with a post-graduate degree in a relevant discipline would be desirable. Applicants must demonstrate strong IT skills to include Access and Excel (Pivot tables, VLookups) as well as programming skills around VBA and SQL. Communication and influencing skills and the ability to evaluate information in a logical manner are also crucial to this role. This vacancy is being advertised by Montpellier Resourcing Limited. The services advertised by Montpellier Resourcing Limited are those of an Employment Agency.