Finance & Risk Quantitative Analytics Manager

Finance & Risk Quantitative Analytics Manager

Job Location: CA - San Francisco – West (It is our intention for our people to work where they live. However, in the context of our profession and serving our clients there may be times when you will need to travel).

Job Description: As a Manager in our Finance & Risk—Risk Analytics practice, you will often be:

• Leading and/or supporting project teams, delivering valuable insights, and designing and implementing business change with a focus on people and process
• Developing and maintaining contact with clients, serving as an internal and external trusted advisor on new trends and best practices, providing industry point-of-view and recommendations on how clients can transition to future state solutions
• Understanding business drivers and opportunities as it relates to our client's business and ensuring business outcomes are achieved
• Advising, designing, developing and/or delivering solutions that support industry and client best practices
• Using design-led thinking to enhance the client customer experience
• Defining client organizational priorities that could benefit from a liquid workforce
• Optimizing client processes using analytics
• Helping assess risk and shaping the appropriate mitigation strategies for the top global financial services organizations
• Identifying and supporting business development initiatives; participate in and/or lead aspects of the proposal development process
• Managing engagement risk, deliverables, and project economics
• Leading, developing and supporting our resources
• Contributing to the practice's growth plan; supporting the go-to-market strategy, offering prioritization, design, planning and delivery of offerings
• Driving initiatives around market research, Client Points-of-View, capability development, thought capital, knowledge management, etc.
• Maintaining an understanding of advancements in regulations, technology and innovations which are happening across your specialization, and the broader financial services marketplace

Basic Qualifications Industry & Technical Expertise:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative discipline such as: Mathematics, Statistics, Econometrics, Economics, Engineering, Quantitative Finance or other quantitative discipline. An Advanced Degree in one or more of these disciplines is highly desirable
• Minimum 5 years of experience with:
• Credit, market, liquidity and/or operational risk analytics (e.g., model development, strategy and framework, scorecard development, model documentation, model validation, model governance, model implementation, integration and automation, etc.)
• Retail, commercial, and/or Capital Markets portfolios, including commercial lending, asset-based lending, treasury services and investment banking. Exposure to insurance, wholesale/retail lending, deposits, etc. desirable
• Risk regulatory trends, principles, and practices (e.g., CCAR, DFAST, Internal Capital Reporting, Capital Planning, Risk Weighted Assets, etc.), including any combination of the following: back testing, stress testing, sensitivity testing, benchmarking, capital calculations, reporting standards, etc.
• Hands-on experience with SAS or Matlab. Exposure and/or proficiency to other analytical tools such as R, SQL, C++, VBA, Murex, Calypso, Numerix, etc., desirable
• Model development/quantitative skills should include any combination of the following: multivariate regression models, transition matrices, stochastic processes, econometric models, neural networks, Monte Carlo, etc.
• Demonstrated experience with credit/market risk type models (e.g., CVA, ALLL, PD/LGD, Roll Rate, VAR, SVAR, etc.)

Management Consulting Experience:

• Minimum 3 years of prior Management Consulting experience focused on Risk Analytics in the Financial Services industry (e.g., Banking, Capital Markets and/or Insurance)
• Significant engagement management as well as business, practice, and people development
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate and drive conversations at the executive level, including the ability to convey emerging trends, recommendations, and business value propositions
• Demonstrated ability to understand client needs, translate business needs into requirements, develop proposed solutions, and deliver high impact change initiatives
• Demonstrated experience working through organizational change, with a demonstrated track record of continuing responsibilities, creativity and innovation, including evidence of solution design
• Strong project management skills (e.g., defining scope, setting project timelines and milestones, driving deliverables, identifying risks, and managing issues)
• Experience managing a project team (sometimes concurrent) of least 3 resources, including an understanding of team strengths, the ability to coach, develop and inspire others
• Demonstrated insights on key methodologies, approaches and market trends in the industry
• Well-developed analytical skills, the ability to provide clarity to complex issues, and synthesize large amounts of information
• Demonstrated ability to identify the root causes of issues by analyzing patterns and trends
• Strong competence in developing presentations required (MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel))

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience within the model risk or model development team of a universal bank, wholesale bank or rating agency
• Data management experience (e.g., extracting, aggregating and structuring large volumes of data, etc.) in the context of analytics
• Strong understanding of front and back office operations desirable