About the Role:
Grade Level (for internal use):
07
The team:
Financial Risk Analytics provides products and solutions to financial institutions to measure and manage their market risk, counterparty credit risk, regulatory risk capital and derivative valuation adjustments. Using the latest analytics and technology, including a fully vectorized pricing library, Machine Learning, and a Big Data stack for scalability, our products and solutions are utilized by the largest tier-one banks, asset managers, and smaller niche firms.
The impact:
Financial Risk Analytics is seeking a highly motivated, enthusiastic and detail-oriented individual to join our product team in London. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the development and support of our advanced financial risk solutions in a role that will allow you to gain exposure to a wide variety of quantitative and qualitative topics and clients.
What’s in it for you:
- Gain valuable exposure to both Buy Side and Sell Side methodologies, as well as a variety of risk models.
- Develop a comprehensive understanding of the full end-to-end product development cycle, from design through testing and deployment.
- Collaborate with a global team, leveraging cutting-edge technologies and cloud infrastructure, while working with major financial institutions as clients worldwide.
Responsibilities:
Product analysis and design.
- Research academic and market standards and define potential improvements of methodologies and workflows.
- Research and design the functionality, create product feature specifications, and implement proofs-of-concept.
- Propose technical solutions to business challenges.
Assist in the execution of the product roadmap.
- Assist in the delivery of new product features, communicating regularly with the product team.
- Coordinate the implementation and prepare documentation for new features.
- Coordinate with the data/software/financial engineering teams on the development, testing, and implementation of new risk models, ensuring that data and analytics are tightly integrated.
- Develop analytical tools and prototypes for new features prior to implementation.
Support current and prospective clients.
- Support the professional services team with PoCs, client onboarding, investigations and production runs.
- Assist in the presentation of product capabilities to internal and external stakeholders, gathering feedback and answering questions.
What we’re are looking for:
- A bachelor’s degree in a quantitative background such as finance, mathematics, economics, physics, computer science, or other technical subjects.
- Strong curiosity and problem-solving skills
- Interest in product design and/or software development.
- Experience using Python, SQL, and/or other programming languages.
- Interest in financial services, risk management, quant finance, and technology
Right to Work Requirements:
- This role is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United Kingdom.
