Job Description
This Sr Quantitative Risk Analyst will be joining a team of eight at a bank in Cincinnati, OH. They will be provides advanced level of financial and quantitative analyses, modeling, and research in support of monitoring, assessing, reporting, and collaborating on financial and risk management. They will also be providing advanced-level analysis in support of recommendations and management information related to profitability trends, market risk exposure, prepayment activity, market risk modeling practices, and other financial and risk related characteristics of the balance sheet.
- Assess existing models through model testing and assessing model performance
- Collaborate with Risk Analysts for generating reports
- Analyze and report risk
- Discuss how model results impact decision making
- Stay up to date with financial markets
More responsibilities include:
1) Initiates, evaluates, develops, implements and maintains new or enhanced processes and systems for advanced financial and market risk analysis, both external third party software and advanced spreadsheet/database/programming platforms.
2) Directs and fully participates in the use, development, and maintenance of various market risk, prepayment, default, and earnings simulation models
3) Responsible for performance monitoring such as assessing the conceptual soundness, evaluating model assumptions and data integrity, testing model accuracy, performing outcomes analysis, and reviewing model governance and control process.
4) Researches, creates, develops, interprets, applies, implements, and presents regular and ad-hoc financial and market risk analyses.
5) Support relationship with senior management and external regulators.
6) Initiates and actively supports efforts to develop, build consensus, apply and maintain the enterprise risk management function and program, especially related to market risk, earnings, capital, and credit risk.
Effectively communicate model concepts and results to internal management and external regulators.
Required Skills & Experience
- Master's degree in finance, mathematics, quantitative analysis, economics, financial engineering, or similar
- 5+ years of risk analysis experience
- Including - experience with financial analysis, financial theory, financial mathematics, fixed income financial modeling systems, and generally accepted accounting principles related to derivatives and mortgage securities.
- Financial/banking/insurance/mortgage industry experience
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- Experience with the following modeling tools: QRM, Blacknight, Ad&Co, Polypaths
- Experience with Advances on excel
- Certifications including CFA, FRM, and CQFAdvanced working knowledge of one or more of the following quantitative programming, data analysis, database skills, numerical and statistical tools such as: Stata, VBA, R, SAS, Python, SQL, and/or MATLAB
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.