Risk - Analytics & Reporting - Associate - Birmingham

Requirements

• Masters or Bachelors degree in a quantitative discipline such as financial engineering, economics, mathematics, physics, econometrics or engineering
• Experience of risk measurement, operational risk management and/or the delivery of regulatory projects involving multiple stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Entrepreneurial, creative, self-motivated and team-orientated
• Practical knowledge of mathematics and numerical algorithms, including statistics and time series analysis
• Experience with, or keen interest to develop expertise in, development of risk analytics, interpretation and productivity tools for cultivating insights into risk & capital metric data
• Experience with, or keen interest to develop expertise in, pricing, risk and capital models
• Experience with, or keen interest to develop expertise in, financial markets & economics

What You'll Be Doing

• Supporting the end-to-end CCAR operational risk loss projection process, including communicating timelines and facilitating review and challenge to achieve timely completion of a key regulatory deliverable
• Calculating analysing and reporting on Operational RWA results
• Liaising with groups such as Modelers/Strats, Controllers, Enterprise Risk, trading and investing businesses, Legal, Compliance, Model Risk Management and the firm’s Insurance group to gather inputs and communicate insights
• Interacting with Operational Risk specialists in domains such as cyber risk and algorithmic trading risk
• Identifying areas of potential improvement and interpreting the results of sensitivity analysis
• Working with Engineers to develop, test and integrate enhanced workflows to deliver automation, maximize efficiency, improve control and enhance the results’ timeliness and accuracy
• Preparing materials for the firm’s internal governing bodies such as Risk Committees and executive members of the firm

Skills and Relevant Experience

• Masters or Bachelors degree in a quantitative discipline such as financial engineering, economics, mathematics, physics, econometrics or engineering
• Experience of risk measurement, operational risk management and/or the delivery of regulatory projects involving multiple stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Entrepreneurial, creative, self-motivated and team-orientated
• Practical knowledge of mathematics and numerical algorithms, including statistics and time series analysis
• Experience with, or keen interest to develop expertise in, development of risk analytics, interpretation and productivity tools for cultivating insights into risk & capital metric data
• Experience with, or keen interest to develop expertise in, pricing, risk and capital models
• Experience with, or keen interest to develop expertise in, financial markets & economics

Perks and Benefits

• Work in a dynamic & highly creative teamwork and consensus-orientated environment
• Exposure to industry leading market data, pricing and risk and capital models for all activities the Firm engages in
• Exposure to challenging quantitative problems and large volumes of data (a.k.a ‘Big Data’) and the tools and techniques to interact with, and determine meaningful interpretations of, such data
• Development of economic, financial product and market knowledge