Join us as a Quantitative Analyst
- Joining our Front Office Trading Risk team, you’ll help to create a comprehensive approach to anticipate, identify, prioritise, manage, and monitor the portfolio of business risks impacting our organisation
- You’ll implement procedures, processes, accountability, and reporting to execute our approach to risk effectively, driving continuous improvement
- This role is available at associate level
What you’ll do
As a Quantitative Analyst, you’ll be responsible for defining risk management strategies, clear accountabilities, and action steps for building and executing risk management capabilities and continuously improving them. You’ll be providing and monitoring risk and performance related information to decision-makers in order to assist them as they manage key risks and protect the interests of shareholders.
Supporting the Head of EMEA Fixed Income Front Office Risk, you’ll focus on defining related risk measurement as well as technical and modelling issues across Commercial & Institutional Banking (CIB) Front Office and you’ll provide a comprehensive and independent view of market risks to senior management in CIB Trading.
As well as this, you’ll:
- Oversee the analysis of trading risk measures including sensitivities, historical stress, and capital usage
- Produce and distribute a broad set of market risk reporting to senior managers in Front Office Trading
- Automate and maintain the reporting production process, analysing and interrogating the output to make sure that the reports are complete, accurate, and sent out in a timely manner
- Contribute insights to the commentary of the report
- Act as an informed point of query for any changes in our material market risk exposures
The skills you’ll need
You’ll have at least two years’ professional experience working as a service provider or direct user and you’ll have advanced analytical and MI skills, able to analyse and interrogate data and complex models, predominantly via Excel and VBA.
Along with an understanding of risk related measures, analysis, and global financial markets, you’ll have a master’s degree, ideally coupled with an advanced degree in business finance, accounting, economics, maths, statistics, or engineering. Experience of working with derivative pricing models and a good understanding of the concepts which underpin pricing would be beneficial, as would experience of adapting to, and working within the confines of the latest regulatory guidelines.
We’re also looking for:
- The ability to work with large data sets and help to solve non-routine problems in a timely fashion
- Astute attention to detail
- The ability to work independently and ensure efficiency, accuracy, and on-time delivery while taking on new initiatives
- Strong interpersonal skills, able to effectively interact with stakeholders locally and in London
Hours
45
Job Posting Closing Date:
04/04/2025
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What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate.
As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these.
Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence.
One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025.
We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
