Join us as a Market Risk Manager
- You'll join a dynamic working environment and manage risk coverage of the top global Commercial and Institutional Capital Markets franchises
- In this trading floor-based role, you'll be working closely with the trading and structuring business
- With the opportunity to further develop an extensive range of skills and knowledge, this varied role also offers excellent exposure to our business and its senior stakeholders
As a Market Risk Manager, you’ll be implementing agreed risk appetites, including monitoring adherence and appropriately escalating breaches.
Your role will also involve:
- Understanding, reviewing, and challenging trading business strategies at the portfolio and deal level, and highlighting and escalating issues and any unusual trading activity
- Supporting senior management in the development of the risk appetite and the implementation of the market risk limit framework
- Developing a detailed knowledge of financial markets, investment strategies, liquidity management and key income drivers
- Reviewing trade proposals, and non-standard deal documents and making recommendations on approval dependent on sign-off level
- Reviewing the ongoing operation of risk models and working with market risk methodology on improvements
- Maintaining interaction between market risk, the relevant business, finance, quants and any other relevant stakeholders
The skills you'll need
To succeed in this role, you’ll hold a formal banking qualification or equivalent professional experience with accreditation aligned to the role or be willing to work towards one.
You’ll also need:
- Technical expertise in credit and rates products, both vanilla and structured
- To be a clear and confident communicator across all levels of seniority
- To be driven, independent and able to enhance existing processes
- Extensive knowledge of one or more market risk asset classes, preferably rates and credit
- The ability to understand complex deals to support fair customer outcomes while protecting the organisation’s position, ideally in a market risk function at a large multinational bank
- The ability to plan and organise the workload to ensure the achievement of productivity and delivery to agreed service standards
Hours
35Job Posting Closing Date:
15/10/2026Ways of Working:HybridSkills Required
- Formal banking qualification or equivalent professional experience with role-aligned accreditation, or willingness to work toward one
- Technical expertise in credit and rates products, including vanilla and structured products
- Extensive knowledge of one or more market risk asset classes, preferably rates and credit
- Ability to understand complex deals and support fair customer outcomes while protecting the organisation's position
- Clear and confident communication across all levels of seniority
- Ability to work independently and improve existing processes
- Ability to plan and organise workload to meet productivity and service standards
- Experience in a market risk function at a large multinational bank
NatWest Group Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about NatWest Group and has not been reviewed or approved by NatWest Group.
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Flexible Benefits — A flexible ValueAccount structure with pension and benefit funding allows tailoring of health, protection, lifestyle, and savings options, with unused amounts typically paid as cash. This flexibility supports personalisation of coverage, particularly in Great Britain where the framework is most detailed.
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Retirement Support — Employer-funded pension contributions are provided on top of salary in Great Britain, alongside automatic retirement enrollment and share/save programs. This creates structured long‑term wealth support as part of total reward.
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Parental & Family Support — UK policies outline extended maternity, adoption and equal partner leave on full pay with a phased return, plus paid neonatal care leave. These provisions are positioned as market‑leading and complement broader flexibility resources.
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
