Product Control Specialist

About the Company

The Market Risk and Product Control Reporting Expertise Team is team within WB COO FM with as purpose to deliver quality reports and analyses on Financial Markets PnL and Market Risk in cooperation with the teams in ING Hubs. In the upcoming years, the team will build its portfolio by taking over the operational tasks related to Profit and Loss and Risk Reporting, aligning these processes across locations, improving and automating them where possible. The team will also closely monitor and improve the performance of the IT value chain, implementing controls that will ensure timeliness, completeness and accuracy across all systems involved.

About the Role

Your role and key responsibilities As Consultant Operations, you are responsible for the design, implementation and monitoring of the Product Control Reporting processes. You analyse the issues experienced in the reporting process, e.g. incorrect P&L reporting on Trade or Book or weaknesses in the (IT) value chain leading to late reporting, and initiate the implementation of solutions, either in process or in systems. You liaise with colleagues from Trading Risk Management, ING Hubs and Tech to create an environment of virtuous improvement and implement metrics to monitor the performance of the reporting processes. You have in-depth knowledge of Financial Markets products and Financial Risk drivers, understand Data flows and the drive to improve.

Responsibilities

• Design, implementation and monitoring of the Product Control Reporting processes.
• Analyse issues in the reporting process.
• Initiate implementation of solutions in process or systems.
• Liaise with colleagues from Trading Risk Management, ING Hubs and Tech.
• Create an environment of virtuous improvement.
• Implement metrics to monitor performance of reporting processes.

Qualifications

• Master's or bachelor's degree.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of working experience.

Required Skills

• Experience in the Financial Markets, Market Risk or Operations environments.
• Knowledge of Financial Markets products.
• Experience and/or affinity to deliver process improvements together with the IT organisation.
• Experience in Data analytics, Robotics or Alteryx is a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

Preferred Skills

• Ability to simplify complexity and drive operational excellence.
• Strong analytical skills and decision-making based on data and facts.
• Strong resilience and ability to navigate through ambiguity.
• Pro-active, creative and out-of-the-box thinker.
• Open and transparent communicator.
• Energetic, motivating person who can work as part of a team but also independently.

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