Managing Director, Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives

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## About the Role

As ATB's next Managing Director, you will serve as the architect and leader of the newly established Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives function. Reporting to the AVP of Enterprise Market Risk, you will be responsible for defining core processes, and establishing the analytical frameworks necessary to provide a comprehensive, top-of-house (TOH) view of market risk across ATB’s trading and banking books. You will be responsible for consolidating risk information, ensuring that senior management receives insightful, contextualized commentary on market dynamics and the firm’s aggregate risk profile.

We are seeking a seasoned leader to play a pivotal role in the newly established Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives function within Financial Risk Management (FRM). This leader will be instrumental in building the Enterprise Market Risk (EMR) analytical pillar, ensuring senior management has a comprehensive, aggregated view of market risk across the firm’s trading and banking books. The successful candidate will drive the development of foundational risk reporting infrastructure and provide critical, contextualized insights into enterprise-level market risk exposures.

## Accountabilities

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Function Build-out: Lead the end-to-end establishment of the Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives function. This includes designing core processes, implementing analytical frameworks, and curating reporting formats to deliver a top-of-house view of risk.
• Risk Infrastructure: Design and influence best-practice risk infrastructure design. Including data structure and governance, and connectivity with pricing and risk engines.
• Analytical Leadership: Own the production and quality assurance of all top-of-house (TOH) risk analysis and commentary. Ensure reporting is timely, accurate, and provides senior stakeholders with actionable insights regarding market dynamics, trends, and risk profiles.
• Stress Testing: Implement and maintain a robust Stress Testing function that covers Trading and Banking books. Direct the team’s response to market stress events, providing agile, regular and ad-hoc analysis that contextualizes impacts for the firm as a whole.
• Governance & Stakeholder Coordination: Act as the primary point of contact for consolidating risk information from various FRM oversight teams. Collaborate closely with the AVP and other key partners (e.g., Treasury, Front Office, MROC, ALCO) to ensure consistent communication and strategic alignment.
• Team Leadership: Recruit, mentor, and manage the Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives team, fostering a culture of analytical excellence, strategic thinking, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Process Calibration: Support the analysis and recommendation of TOH risk appetite limits and lead the review and challenge process for enterprise-level models (e.g., VaR backtesting).

Portfolio Analysis and Stress Testing

• Report Review: Conduct daily reviews of all top-of-house (TOH) reports, providing commentary that contextualizes market moves, trends, and upcoming events. Prepare monthly management report commentary highlighting key strategic issues.
• Ad-hoc Reporting & Stress Response: Provide agile analysis and reporting in response to market stress events, contextualizing the impacts and potential strategic options for the firm.
• Stress Testing: Enhance current Stress Testing Design and Infrastructure. Creation of new relevant stress scenarios, and be on the look out for trending risks not being captured in the current Market Risk Framework across Trading and Banking Books.
• TOH Analyses, Modeling & EMR Processes: Support the regular review and analysis of TOH limits, assess the impact of new products, and support key EMR processes such as VaR backtesting and historical window rollovers.

Strategic Initiatives

• Drive requirements for a strategic data architecture (leveraging DEEP/BigQuery) to enable advanced analytical capabilities, improve data quality, and significantly reduce manual data adjustments in daily liquidity and balance sheet reporting.
• Collaborate with Technology (CXT) and Strategic Delivery partners to define data requirements, integration feeds, and risk engine infrastructure.
• Drive regulatory initiatives impacting FRM across Banking and Trading books.

## Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Strategic Vision: Ability to develop and communicate long-term roadmaps for risk analysis in alignment with firm-wide strategic objectives.
• Risk Expertise: Deep understanding of market risk across both banking and trading books, with demonstrated experience in TOH reporting and risk appetite frameworks.
• Risk Infrastructure: Advanced understanding of derivative-pricing, Risk Engines, and Data homogenization projects.
• Technical Proficiency: Strong familiarity with advanced analytical tools and data infrastructure, including SQL, Python, Tableau, and Murex, to support sophisticated modeling and reporting.
• Communications Skills: Proven ability to translate complex market events and data into clear, concise insights for executive-level leadership (e.g., CRO, SVP level).
• Leadership Experience: Experience leading analytical teams, managing change, and driving cross-functional initiatives in a large financial institution.

## Salary Range

The salary range for this role is between $160,000 - $185,000 annually, depending on experience and qualifications.

Don’t meet all the requirements on the list?

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What happens next?

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