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About the Role

Aventus is partnering with a leading regional banking group in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to recruit a Senior Manager, Market & Liquidity Risk. This full-time position is integral to strengthening risk oversight within the Riyadh office, with a focus on supporting balance sheet management, liquidity control, and operational risk governance at the branch level. The role requires a professional with over 10 years of relevant experience.

Role Purpose and Impact

The Senior Manager will play a pivotal role in managing core prudential risks across the branch's portfolio, encompassing counterparty, leverage, liquidity, interest rate, currency, and other market exposures. This position involves advising senior management on current and emerging risk exposures, contributing to capital and liquidity strategy, and driving the adoption of advanced methodologies for operational risk measurement and capitalization.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the management of core prudential risks, including counterparty, leverage, liquidity, interest rate, currency, and other market exposures, across the branch's portfolio.
• Advise senior management on current and emerging risk exposures, contributing to capital and liquidity strategy in light of the prevailing macroeconomic environment.
• Drive the branch's transition toward more advanced methodologies for measuring and capitalising operational risk.
• Liaise with Compliance on regulatory developments and assess their impact on the branch's risk profile.
• Deliver timely and accurate risk reporting to management committees, auditors, and regulators as required.
• Review and refine portfolio risk procedures in line with Basel standards, SAMA regulations, and evolving market conditions.
• Monitor exposure limits across counterparties, related-party transactions, credit concentration, and liquidity positions using appropriate risk systems and MIS tools.
• Support remediation of findings raised through internal/external audits or regulatory examinations.
• Take ownership of operational risk oversight for the branch, covering fraud, business disruption, process failures, and client/product-related risk events.

Required Experience

Candidates must possess a minimum of 10 years of experience in market and liquidity risk management, preferably within a leading financial institution.

Skills and Attributes

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work independently across multiple priorities.
• Detail-oriented, self-motivated, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, offering an opportunity to contribute to a significant regional banking group's risk management framework.