Market Risk Director, Capital Markets
| Posting date: | 28 January 2026 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 27 February 2026 |
| Location: | London, EC2M 4AA |
| Company: | NatWest Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | R-00270865 |
Summary
Join us as a Market Risk Director, Capital Markets
- You'll join a dynamic working environment and manage market risk coverage of the Capital Market business
- In this trading floor-based role, you'll be working closely with the first line of defence
- 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
- You'll be expected to work from the London office 2 days per week minimum
What you'll do
As a Market Risk Director, you’ll lead the Capital Markets Team agreeing and implementing risk appetites, monitoring adherence and building a strong and efficient team.
Your role will also involve:
- Understanding, reviewing, and challenging trading business strategies at the portfolio level, and highlighting and escalating issues and 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 for approval
- Reviewing the ongoing operation of risk models and working with market risk methodology on improvements
- Maintaining strong relationships with first line colleagues
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 on pricing and risk models
- To be a clear and confident communicator across all levels of seniority
- To be driven and be able to enhance existing processes
- Extensive knowledge of financing and primary capital markets business
- 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