Risk & Financial Planning Consultant

Are you curious and ready to accept a new challenge in your career? Are you eager to join a dynamic company and bring innovation through your work and skills?

Prometeia offers you opportunities for growth and training in a Group with over 1000 professionals working for more than 500 clients in 20 countries around the world.

Among the European leaders in Risk Management and Wealth and Asset Management solutions, Prometeia is looking for a resource for the Bologna office to be included in a team that operates in the Risk Integration area.

Prometeia is a global firm of quantitative experts and software engineers, dedicated to applying financial modelling, economic research and data science to solve complex business and regulatory challenges.

Our mission is to combine academic excellence with industry experience, integrating macro-economic research, quantitative analysis, business consulting and software development. This distinctive mix of competences has made Prometeia a leading company in Risk, Asset and Wealth Management solutions across Europe, Africa and Middle East.

As a leading provider of Risk Management solutions in the EMEA market, Prometeia is looking to strengthen its International Delivery Team for Egypt , by hiring a Risk & Financial Planning Consultant with proven experience in the fields of Risk Integration, Scenario Analysis, ICAAP and Stress Testing.

PROMETEIA OVERVIEW

Prometeia creates value by integrating analytical models, customer data, market feeds and economic scenarios to support decision-making processes and regulatory compliance.

The Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is the largest of Prometeia business areas, and is the cornerstone of Prometeia’s reputation in the international market. The thematic areas covered by the ERM Area include:

• Credit Risk;
• ALM, Market and Liquidity Risk;
• Climate Risk & ESG Programs;
• Risk & Financial Planning;
• Governance, Risk & Compliance;
• Credit Intelligence Optimization & Strategy;
• Pricing & Financial Engineering.

PROMETEIA EGYPTIAN BRANCH

The Cairo Office is being established with the aim of serving as central ‘hub’ for the delivery of Risk Management projects in Egypt and North Africa.

Founded in 2018, the Egyptian Risk Team has the mission of consolidating the leadership of Prometeia in one of the key geographies in which our group has operated over the past decade.

Prometeia already collaborates with primary banks in Egypt and GCC countries through a local team of ~20 resources.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The successful candidate will collaborate with a specialized team of business consultants and risk advisors, operating within different projects in the field of Risk & Financial Planning. This includes:

• Design of methodological frameworks to integrate Credit, Market, Liquidity and Non-Financial Risks with consistent macro-economic scenarios;
• Deliver quantitative analysis and simulations for ICAAP, Recovery Planning, development of Key Risk Indicators for the CRO area;
• Deliver functional approaches to integrate Risk and Performance metrics for CFO area, to support MIS, Strategic Planning, Budgeting;
• Implementation of Integrated Stress Testing solutions, including input data collection, software parameterization and reporting design.

METHODOLOGICAL COMPETENCES REQUIRED

The ideal candidates had developed 3-8 years of experience in one of the following areas:

• ICAAP and ILAAP;
• Stress Testing;
• Risk Integration & Reporting;
• Recovery Planning.

The candidates has also a demonstrated knowledge of Bank’s financial statements, IFRS accounting principles, BCBS and CBE regulatory framework.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCES REQUIRED

• Excellent Microsoft Office skills e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Access;
• Knowledge of DBRMS and data management tools (SQL server);
• Practical application of statistical modelling techniques;
• Experience of using mathematical/statistical computing software (e.g. R) or other data mining tools;
• Knowledge of programming languages (Python, R, VBA, SPARK, Matlab, etc.) is a strong plus.

PROJECT SKILLS REQUIRED

• Effective communicator in a multi-national and multi-discipline environment;
• Demonstrable experience of delivering Risk Management projects;
• Self-motivated, effective under pressure and willing to take initiative;
• Strong analytical skills with acute attention to detail;
• Assertive and excellent communication, presentation and inter-personal skills;
• Time management skills to meet required deadlines;

OTHER SKILLS REQUIRED

• Fluency in English and Arabic languages is mandatory (at least C1);
• Proficiency in Italian or French is considered a strong plus;
• Excellent organizational and technical skills;
• Teamwork attitude, flexibility and proactivity;
• Problem solving skills and good interpersonal skills.

WHAT WE OFFER:

WORK LOCATION

Starting from September 2024, Prometeia Egypt will be relocated in a new refurbished office of The GrEEK Campus (Downtown), a location easily reachable from any part of Cairo metropolitan area.

REMOTE WORKING

Flexibility is an intrinsic value of the way we work. At Prometeia, smart working is an organizational method based on trust, which results in benefits in terms of work/life balance, impact on the environment and optimization of company results, through autonomy and empowerment of people.

PEOPLE PROGRAM

Our evaluation system is based on the full enhancement of people and their continuous dialogue as a stimulus for regular, mutual professional and personal growth. Transparent discussions between managers and team members are set up within the projects, where reciprocal and timely feedback is exchanged. The process is fully digitalized and aimed at continuously improving the development trajectory of the individual and the company.

TRAINING

Prometeia means ongoing training. We provide an average of 11 days of training per year to our people, in-person and online. Particular attention is paid to younger colleagues, who are the protagonists of dedicated growth programs, and to the continuous sharing and internal transfer of know-how and skills. On-the-job training is also important, through immediate and direct confrontation with the market.

WIN/WIN POLICY

If you are one of our employees, and you recommend a person who is later recruited, you are entitled to a financial bonus! This is an important opportunity to contribute to the growth of Prometeia as a whole, by attracting acknowledged market professionals and new tech talents.

COMMUNITY

Our Community is extremely diverse, as are the skills of the people who are part of it and who share its values, and the individuals and organizations that are directly or indirectly involved in our activities. Clients, People of the Group, Alumni, Institutions, Academia, non-profit entities with which we actively collaborate, are stakeholders representing a great value for us, in terms of trust and collaboration.

DIVERSITY

We promote and respect equal opportunities and consider differences as a value. Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental values: from the selection phase to everyday life, also through dedicated training moments to develop individual sensitivities and unicities.

IMPACT

We responsibly take an active role towards the environment, the territories and the communities in which we operate. Our Headquarter in Bologna has obtained the Leed Gold Certification, one of the highest awards that recognizes the performance of the building in terms of energy and water savings, reduction of CO2 emissions, improvement of the ecological quality of the interior, materials and resources used. In the Sustainability Report we report the results achieved within the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda that, drafted by the United Nations in 2016, we have been supporting since 2020.