Assistant Vice President, Market & Liquidity Risk

About the role

Our client, a leading regional banking group, is looking for an Assistant Vice President to lead market and liquidity risk oversight for its Riyadh branch. The role will support balance‑sheet management, liquidity control and operational risk governance, reporting directly to senior management.

Key responsibilities

• Manage core prudential risks—including counterparty, leverage, liquidity, interest‑rate, currency and other market exposures—across the branch portfolio.
• Advise senior leadership on current and emerging risk exposures and contribute to capital and liquidity strategy in the context of macro‑economic conditions.
• Drive adoption of advanced methodologies for measuring and capitalising operational risk.
• Liaise with Compliance on regulatory developments and assess impact on the branch’s risk profile.
• Prepare and deliver accurate risk reports for management committees, auditors and regulators.
• Review and refine risk procedures to align with Basel standards, SAMA regulations and market developments.
• Monitor exposure limits, credit concentration and liquidity positions using risk systems and MIS tools.
• Support remediation of audit or regulatory findings and own operational risk oversight for fraud, business disruption and process failures.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics or a related quantitative field; Master’s degree preferred.
• Professional certification such as CFA, FRM or CPA is an advantage.
• 10+ years of experience in international banking with a focus on liquidity risk, ALM and stress‑testing.
• Strong knowledge of market risk, VAR and interest‑rate risk modelling.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work independently across multiple priorities.

Required skills

• Operational risk frameworks
• Interest rate risk modelling
• Regulatory frameworks
• Stress testing methodologies
• Liquidity risk
• Market risk VAR
• IFRS
• ALM