Associate - CEM Capital Management

Your work environment

Financial Markets (FM) is the Bank’s gateway to the professional markets around the world. Our primary function is to service the needs of ING’s clients with products, services and guidance. FM aims to be a significant player in our market leader and challenger markets, with an additional presence in all the major international markets and specialist expertise in selected emerging markets and products.

Your role

This vacancy is for a Capital Management Expert within the Credit Exposure Management (CEM) team, located in the dealing room in Amsterdam. As part of a team of capital experts, you will contribute to enhancing capital efficiency across the FM portfolio. You will analyze, forecast, and manage the capital impact of counterparty credit and trading exposures, valuation adjustments, and regulatory changes. Your insights will support strategic decision-making, pricing, and risk mitigation, ensuring that capital consumption aligns with ING’s risk appetite and return thresholds.

The team

The Credit Exposure Management (CEM) team is a multidisciplinary group within ING Financial Markets, responsible for measuring and managing counterparty credit risk across the trading business. Beyond risk quantification and management, the team plays a central role in overseeing the funding and capital implications of these exposures. CEM operates at the intersection of Trading, Risk, Treasury, and Finance, ensuring that credit risk is not only well understood but also efficiently priced, hedged, funded, and capitalized. The team’s mandate spans regulatory capital optimization, valuation adjustments (e.g., CVA, FVA), collateral strategy, and liquidity management.

Your key responsibilities

In this position, you will support the team’s efforts to manage and optimize capital usage across the FM business. You’ll work closely with senior specialists and stakeholders, contributing to analysis, execution, and continuous improvement of capital-related processes.

Capital Forecasting & Analysis:

• Assist in maintaining and enhancing models used to forecast market risk, default and CVA capital under regulatory frameworks such as FRTB-SA, SA-CCR, IMM and SA-CVA.
• Support the identification of capital-intensive exposures and contribute to the development of mitigation strategies.

Regulatory Monitoring & Interpretation:

• Track relevant regulatory developments and assist in assessing their impact on FM capital requirements.
• Help translate regulatory changes into practical implications for trading desks and internal reporting.

Capital-Efficient Risk Management:

• Support the execution of hedging strategies aimed at reducing capital consumption, including CDS.
• Collaborate with the XVA Trading and Funding teams to ensure alignment across credit, funding, and capital risk dimensions.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Work with Trading, Risk and Finance to gather input and share insights on capital-related matters.
• Contribute to internal discussions and initiatives aimed at improving capital efficiency and transparency

Who we are looking for?

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself. To succeed in this role, you’ll ideally bring the following:

• At least 4 years of experience in a similar role within a FO or Risk environment, ideally in capital, market/credit risk, or XVA-related functions
• Fluent in English
• Strong quantitative background (e.g., mathematics, finance, economics)
• Solid understanding of counterparty credit risk, valuation adjustments (CVA, FVA, ColVA), and capital regulations
• Familiarity with regulatory capital models such as SA-CCR, FRTB and IMM, and internal pricing frameworks like RAROC
• Ability to translate technical concepts into clear business language and communicate effectively with stakeholders
• Strong interest in financial markets and a desire to deepen expertise in capital and credit risk topics
• Proficiency in data analysis tools (e.g., Python, SQL, Excel)

We offer you 

A clear purpose, a unique offer and a range of flexible compensation and other benefits:

• a 40-hour working week
• a dynamic international working environment
• a progressive and agile way of working, where new ideas are valued ahead of convention

Furthermore, you can count on a range of opportunities to invest in your personal and professional growth with:

• possibility to participate in courses and trainings
• challenging projects & a steep learning curve

Rewards & benefits 

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions here:

The benefits of working with us at ING include: 

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
• 36 or 40 hour workweek
• Individual leave: 24+2 individual holiday days based on 36 hr workweek
• Diversity leave: 3 days per year (1,5 paid, 1,5 unpaid)
• CSR days: up to 2 days per year to actively engage in society by volunteering
• 13th month salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• Mobility card
• Attractive pension scheme
• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

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Please note, multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process.

About us

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us and apply today!