Market Risk Manager - Capital Markets

BOK Financial is a top financial institution that offers a range of sophisticated financial products and services, focusing on personalized client relationships. With over a century of experience, we serve consumers, businesses, and wealth clients across the American Midwest and Southwest. We emphasize long-term relationships, community investment, and talent development, aligning with our brand platform, "We go above. So you can go beyond."

The Market Risk Manager - Capital Markets is primarily responsible for supervising the capital markets market risk team in aggregating and evaluating broker/dealer market risk trading activities. In carrying out the responsibilities of this position, the incumbent acts as an independent body to provide preventative and detective tools to mitigate risk and oversees resolution.

Our team collaborates effectively to meet client objectives. We value diverse perspectives and maintain a respectful environment where every voice is heard and appreciated. These principles create a cohesive, high-performing team that consistently delivers outstanding results for our clients.

• You will develop and apply analytical models to assess valuation and risk across broker/dealer operations.
• You will monitor and report Key Risk Indicators such as liquidity, price risk, VaR, and hedge effectiveness.
• You will conduct complex analyses of trading strategies and exposures using advanced critical thinking.
• You will evaluate daily fair values of trading inventory and ensure compliance with risk limits.
• You will drive process improvements and adopt new technologies for enhanced market risk measurement.
• You will collaborate with trading desks to understand market behavior, liquidity, and client strategies.
• You will communicate risk policies, lead senior-level presentations, and foster cross-functional partnerships.

This level of knowledge is normally acquired through a completion of a bachelor's degree and 5 to 8 years of experience within the financial services industry with extensive knowledge/understanding of financial institution products and services, risk management standards and financial theory or 10-12 years of equivalent work-related experience.

• Experience working with trading desks and/or directly trading financial instruments.
• High attention to detail.
• Significant Programing experience in languages such as SQL, R, Matlab, VBA, C++, Java, and Python.
• Experience with database query and analytics tools/methods (e.g. SQL) is required.
• Demonstrated experience in the ability to proactively monitor and identify root causes and to develop long term related solutions.
• Strong quantitative skills.
• Extensive knowledge of sources, impact, and measure of interest rate, liquidity and price risk
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of risk exposure measurements and data gathering techniques
• Self-motivation, discipline, task focus, and a proven record of delivering high quality results within strict deadlines.
• Superior problem-solving abilities and attention to detail; and prompt follow-through
• Ability to aggregate and synthesize complex data from multiple sources
• Strong oral and written communication skills to effectively represent self and BOKF, as well as ability to present complex information and issues in a clear and concise manner

Preferred:

• Master's degree in quantitative finance related field
• CFA and/or FRM designation or progress toward
• Expertise in Python
• Experience with third-party risk systems such as Risk Metrics, MSCI, Yield Book, Broadridge, OpenLink, and Bloomberg is preferred.