Description

Overview of Division/Department

The Market and Liquidity Risk Management team of RMD APAC implements, drives and enhances strategies, policies and procedures for market and liquidity risk management in the APAC region.

About Us
MIZUHO BANK IS THE BANKING SUBSIDIARY OF MIZUHO FINANCIAL GROUP, WHICH IS HEADQUARTERED IN TOKYO, JAPAN. MIZUHO FINANCIAL GROUP, INC. IS THE 15TH LARGEST BANK IN THE WORLD, AS MEASURED BY TOTAL ASSETS OF APPROXIMATELY US 2 TRILLION. MIZUHO'S 55,000 EMPLOYEES WORLDWIDE OFFER COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL SERVICES TO CLIENTS IN OVER 800 OFFICES THROUGHOUT THE AMERICAS, EMEA, AND ASIA.

MIZUHO BANK SINGAPORE BRANCH HAS AN ESTABLISHED LOCAL PRESENCE WITH OVER 50 YEARS OF HISTORY AND SERVES AS THE REGIONAL HUB FOR THE BANK'S APAC OPERATIONS.

OPERATING WITH A FULL BANK LICENSE, MIZUHO BANK SINGAPORE BRANCH PROVIDES BANKING SERVICES TO OVER 2,000 JAPANESE AND NON JAPANESE CORPORATE CLIENTS, WITH A STAFF STRENGTH OF ABOUT 1,000 EMPLOYEES. WE PROVIDE EXPERTISE IN CORPORATE FINANCE, TRADE FINANCE, CASH MANAGEMENT, FUNDS TRANSFERS, PROJECT FINANCE, AND TREASURY SERVICES TO HELP BUSINESSES DEVELOP AND FIND NEW OPPORTUNITIES. WE ALSO COLLABORATE WITH OUR AFFILIATE COMPANY, MIZUHO SECURITIES, TO PROVIDE INVESTMENT BANKING SOLUTIONS TO OUR CLIENTS.

Job Responsibilities
1) Business Analysis - Market Risk & Liquidity Risk (40% coverage)

• Gather, analyse, and follow through on business requirements with stakeholders for market risk (e.g., VaR, stress testing, sensitivities, risk limits, P&L attribution/explain) and liquidity risk (e.g. regulatory liquidity ratios, liquidity stress testing, cash-flow projections) for systems and tools.
• Perform impact assessments for new products, new risk factors, and changes to models/methodologies and systems.
• Support design of controls and workflows around risk processes
• Participate actively in systems migration and SIT/UAT testing for systems and change requests.
• Provide support in the New Products Approval process.
• Support information checking processes required by Head Office on a quarterly or yearly basis.

2) Risk Data Management, Governance & Controls, Reporting (40% coverage)

• Support enhancement of market and liquidity risk reporting, ensuring consistency, traceability, and auditability of figures by managing the risk reporting
• Partner with stakeholders to define reporting requirements: content, metric definitions, frequency, cut-offs, data sources, and control points.
• Support reconciliations between risk reporting and upstream/downstream stakeholders (Front Office, Finance, Product Control, Treasury).
• Define and maintain data requirements across key domains: trades/positions, reference data, market data/curves, pricing inputs, collateral, funding, cash balances, and liquidity assumptions.
• Drive risk data quality improvements: data profiling, issue triage, root-cause analysis, remediation requirements, and ongoing monitoring.
• Design and help implement reconciliations and controls (completeness, accuracy, timeliness, tolerance checks, exception handling).

3) Risk Systems & Integration (20% coverage)

• Work with Technology to design and validate integrations between source systems (front office/trading, treasury) and downstream risk platforms and reporting solutions.
• Produce functional specifications (when needed) and liaise with technical teams on issues relating to interfaces, mappings, transformations, and calculation rules.
• Support end-to-end delivery across the SDLC: requirements, design reviews, SIT/UAT planning, test case creation, execution support, defect triage, and production validation.
• Assist with BAU support by analyzing breaks in feeds, mismatches in risk results, and reporting discrepancies.

Job Requirements
Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Science or equivalent. Masters, or CFA.
• 8 to 12 years relevant experience. Minimum 5 years' experience as a Business Analyst supporting Market Risk and/or Liquidity Risk initiatives, including risk reporting exposure.
• Strong data management experience: requirements, mapping, reconciliation, lineage, controls, and issue remediation.
• Experience in working with both business users (Risk / Treasury / Finance) and technical teams (system support teams, developers).
• Strong analytical mindset with attention to detail and a controls-oriented approach.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with good interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• Strong planning, organizational and time management skills.

• Technical & Analytical Skills: Strong SQL for data validation, reconciliation, and investigating breaks across feeds and reports.
• Advanced Excel VBA skills. Python is a plus for automation and data profiling. Experience with BI/reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau), databases and data tools.