Graduate Financial Risk Analyst

at  Close Brothers Group

In this existing role, our incoming Graduate Financial Risk Analyst will join a close-knit team of 3, who will assist in the day-to-day delivery of the Market Risk and Counterparty Risk Framework at Winterflood.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Strong analytical and computational skills, with great attention to detail, strong control mind-set with interest in investigating issues and developing solutions.
• Entrepreneurial approach to research and finding solutions.
• Good written and verbal communication & presentation skills.
• Good interpersonal skills and a team player.
• Proactive and self-motivated.

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• 2:1 in a quantitative discipline, e.g., Mathematics, Physics (Or self-taught quantitative/programming skills)
• Data management (SQL)
• Python – EDA, matplotlib, plotly

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Assist in the day-to-day delivery of the Market and Counterparty Risk Framework (incl. limit monitoring, daily reporting and resolving ad-hoc issues).
• Maintain the Company’s Model Risk Governance Framework and conduct validations and/or reviews of the Company’s Models and Algorithms.
• Identify and propose solutions to model/algorithm control deficiencies.
• Keep up to date on regulatory changes, quantitative techniques, industry best practices, and market news.
• Assist with Governance tasks for both Market/Counterparty Risk and Model Validation.
• Develop and maintain Market and Counterparty Risk Analytics.
• Work with other areas within Risk to deliver strategy.