Senior Technical Consultant, Risk Solutions
SAS Software14 hours ago
Tokyo, JapanSenior
Responsibilities
- Advise banks and financial institutions on financial risk management, regulatory capital, IFRS 9, enterprise stress testing, and asset and liability management.
- Interpret Basel, IFRS 9, IRRBB, LCR, and NSFR requirements and assess their implications for capital, operations, P&L, risk management, and solvency.
- Lead discovery workshops with senior banking, finance, risk, and technology stakeholders.
- Translate business and regulatory requirements into solution designs, analytical approaches, configurations, data requirements, and implementation plans.
- Apply modelling, scenario analysis, and stress-testing techniques to assess risk exposures and mitigation strategies.
- Advise on integrating risk and finance processes and automating RWA, expected credit loss, regulatory capital, ALM, and stress-testing workflows.
- Provide technical and functional leadership across architecture discussions, data preparation, configuration, validation, testing, and implementation support.
- Lead or support solution demonstrations, proofs of concept, executive presentations, and business-value communications.
- Collaborate with sales, consulting, delivery, product, and industry teams on client solutions and business development across Asia Pacific.
- Contribute to thought leadership, reusable consulting assets, delivery practices, and banking risk capability development.
Requirements
- Native-level Japanese and strong business English communication skills.
- At least 10 years of relevant experience in financial risk management, risk advisory, enterprise risk technology, or risk and finance transformation.
- Advanced knowledge of credit risk, IFRS 9 expected credit loss, Basel regulatory capital, RWA calculations, credit risk mitigation, and enterprise stress testing.
- Strong understanding of asset and liability management, IRRBB, liquidity risk, balance-sheet optimisation, funds transfer pricing, and related regulatory frameworks.
- Practical knowledge of market risk and operational risk and their relationship to enterprise risk and capital management.
- Hands-on techno-functional experience translating requirements into solution designs, data requirements, configurations, testing approaches, and implementation outcomes.
- Strong understanding of banking risk technology architectures, data integration, ETL, data preparation, analytical processing, and enterprise solution implementation.
- Experience with SAS Risk solutions, SAS Viya, SAS Regulatory Capital Management, SAS IFRS 9 solutions, SAS Stress Testing, SAS ALM, Kamakura KRM, or comparable enterprise risk platforms.
- Successful experience in client consulting, solution advisory, software pre-sales, solution architecture, or large-scale risk and finance transformation programmes.
- Strong executive communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Advanced degree in quantitative finance, economics, statistics, risk management, or a related discipline.
- FRM or PRM certification is highly regarded.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in Tokyo.
- Inclusive culture and flexible, meaningful career environment.
- Opportunity to work with clients and teams across Asia Pacific.
Categories
Solutions Engineering