Quantitative Finance Analyst

Job Description:

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Job Description:
This job is responsible for conducting quantitative analytics and modeling projects for specific business units or risk types. Key responsibilities include developing new models, analytic processes, or systems approaches, creating technical documentation for related activities, and working with Technology staff in the design of systems to run models developed. Job expectations include having a broad knowledge of financial markets and products.

Responsibilities:

• Performs end-to-end market risk stress testing including scenario design, scenario implementation, results consolidation, internal and external reporting, and analyzes stress scenario results to better understand key drivers
• Supports the planning related to setting quantitative work priorities in line with the bank’s overall strategy and prioritization
• Identifies continuous improvements through reviews of approval decisions on relevant model development or model validation tasks, critical feedback on technical documentation, and effective challenges on model development/validation
• Supports model development and model risk management in respective focus areas to support business requirements and the enterprise's risk appetite
• Supports the methodological, analytical, and technical guidance to effectively challenge and influence the strategic direction and tactical approaches of development/validation projects and identify areas of potential risk
• Works closely with model stakeholders and senior management with regard to communication of submission and validation outcomes
• Performs statistical analysis on large datasets and interprets results using both qualitative and quantitative approaches
• ​Performing in-depth analysis on the bank’s risk model results using various quantitative tools such as backtesting, benchmarking, sensitivity analysis
• Quantifying the impact of model limitations both in terms of firm level capital and name level exposure
• Using this analysis to form an overall picture of model performance, identifying areas of under-performance and priorities for remediation

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The Team:
Global Markets Risk Analytics (GMRA) is part of GRA. It responsible for developing, maintaining, and monitoring counterparty credit risk and market risk models. GMRA also develops analytical tools to support regulatory, audit, and internal risk management needs for Global Markets. 
This role sits within the Model Performance (MP) team. This team is responsible for monitoring and assessing the performance of all risk models used across Global Markets, supporting risk management in understanding the drivers behind material risk metric movement and the impact of model limitations, and working with the model development team to enhance and improve model accuracy and the overall performance of the analytics platform.

The primary focus will be on supporting performance monitoring of market risk models used for both capital and risk management purposes. The most significant part of the role will be performance analysis of the Value-at-Risk (VaR) model used to quantify the risk of market-driven trading book losses, but there will be additional exposure to other market risk models and the potential in future to work on other areas Counterparty Credit Risk and Prime Brokerage Risk. 
Responsibilities:

Performing in-depth analysis on the bank’s risk model results using various quantitative tools such as backtesting, benchmarking, sensitivity analysis

Quantifying the impact of model limitations both in terms of firm level capital and name level exposure

Using this analysis to form an overall picture of model performance, identifying areas of under-performance and priorities for remediation

Communicating the results of this analysis to all model stakeholders including risk management, model development, model risk, senior management and regulators

Supporting model development in testing the impact of model changes and improvements on performance metrics

Continually improving our model performance assessment toolset, with a focus on improving the efficiency, automation and usability of the tools used day-to-day

Required Qualifications

• Master’s degree, preferably in quantitative finance or a quantitative field
• Solid working experience in a related field (Market Risk, Middle Office, Counterparty Credit Risk), ideally with exposure to model development experience 
• Experience in data analysis, with excellent research and analytical skills
• Proven programming skills (Python preferred)
• Good written and oral communication, interpersonal and organizational skills and ability to build and maintain relationships with personnel across areas and regions
• Ability to multitask with excellent time management skills
• Sense of focus and rigor in the completion of deliverables

Skills:

• Critical Thinking
• Quantitative Development
• Risk Analytics
• Risk Modeling
• Technical Documentation
• Adaptability
• Collaboration
• Problem Solving
• Risk Management
• Test Engineering
• Data Modeling
• Data and Trend Analysis
• Process Performance Measurement
• Research
• Written Communications

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