Financial Risk Specialists — Tasks

Task statements

• Recommend ways to control or reduce risk.
• Review or draft risk disclosures for offer documents.
• Maintain input or data quality of risk management systems.
• Analyze areas of potential risk to the assets, earning capacity, or success of organizations.
• Analyze new legislation to determine impact on risk exposure.
• Conduct statistical analyses to quantify risk, using statistical analysis software or econometric models.
• Confer with traders to identify and communicate risks associated with specific trading strategies or positions.
• Consult financial literature to ensure use of the latest models or statistical techniques.
• Contribute to development of risk management systems.
• Determine potential environmental impacts of new products or processes on long-term growth and profitability.
• Develop contingency plans to deal with emergencies.
• Develop or implement risk-assessment models or methodologies.
• Devise scenario analyses reflecting possible severe market events.
• Devise systems or processes to monitor validity of risk assessments.
• Document, and ensure communication of, key risks.
• Draw charts and graphs, using computer spreadsheets, to illustrate technical reports.
• Evaluate and compare the relative quality of various securities in a given industry.
• Evaluate the risks and benefits involved in implementing green building technologies.
• Evaluate the risks related to green investments, such as renewable energy company stocks.
• Gather risk-related data from internal or external resources.
• Identify key risks and mitigating factors of potential investments, such as asset types and values, legal and ownership structures, professional reputations, customer bases, or industry segments.
• Inform financial decisions by analyzing financial information to forecast business, industry, or economic conditions.
• Interpret data on price, yield, stability, future investment-risk trends, economic influences, and other factors affecting investment programs.
• Meet with clients to answer queries on subjects such as risk exposure, market scenarios, or values-at-risk calculations.
• Monitor developments in the fields of industrial technology, business, finance, and economic theory.
• Prepare plans of action for investment, using financial analyses.
• Produce reports or presentations that outline findings, explain risk positions, or recommend changes.
• Provide statistical modeling advice to other departments.
• Recommend investments and investment timing to companies, investment firm staff, or the public.
• Track, measure, or report on aspects of market risk for traded issues.