Teamlead Financial Risk Management - #45384

Our Client:

Crelan is a Belgian cooperative bank with a strong focus on retail banking, agriculture, and SMEs. It offers a broad range of financial products and services, including savings, lending, insurance, and investment solutions, and operates primarily through a network of independent bank agents. Crelan combines strong local presence and personal customer relationships with the stability of a solid Belgian financial institution.

Within the Risk & Compliance domain, Financial Risk Management (FRM) plays a critical role as second line of defence, safeguarding the bank’s balance sheet and financial resilience.

In order to ensure continuity, reinforce expertise and further strengthen its risk governance, Crelan is looking to appoint a Teamlead Financial Risk Management.

Responsibilities:

As Teamlead Financial Risk Management, you will lead a highly specialised team and act as a senior expert within the bank’s risk organisation. You will act as an senior risk expert, providing strategic insights and ensuring robust controls and reporting across the organisation. You operate at the crossroads of quantitative expertise, regulatory oversight and pragmatic people leadership and coaching.

• Identify, assess and quantify financial risk exposures and challenge underlying assumptions and models used across the bank.
• Perform and review quantitative analyses, stress tests, scenario analyses and risk assessments related to the bank’s balance sheet.
• Act as a second line of defence, providing independent oversight and challenge on all key financial risks.
• Validate models developed by first-line functions and propose enhancements where needed.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of economic capital models and other quantitative risk tools.
• Prepare and present comprehensive risk reporting to senior committees, regulators and other stakeholders.
• Stay abreast of regulatory developments and ensure timely implementation of changes in collaboration with internal stakeholders.
• Coordinate with internal and external auditors and ensure high standards of compliance and governance.
• Act as a key business partner and report directly to the Director Risk Management.

Profile:

• You hold a master's degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics and professional certifications such as FRM-, CFA- and/or PRM- are desirable.
• You have minimum 10 years of relevant experience in financial risk management, ALM, balance sheet management.
• Experience within a bank or financial institution is a strong plus.
• You have excellent interpersonal and communication skills. You are able to translate & present ideas, facts and figures in a clear manner.
• You have extended experience in stakeholder management.
• You are hands-on, pragmatic and results-driven, with a clear focus on efficiency and quality.
• You are fluent in Dutch, French & English

Offer:

This position offers a unique opportunity to play a key role in the Financial Risk Management Team where you will be part of a dynamic and ambitious environment.

Our client offers an attractive and competitive remuneration package.